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Dynamic single-cell regulomes characterize human peripheral blood innate lymphoid cell subpopulations

Published iniScience, vol. 26, no. 9, 107728
Publication date2023-09-15
First online date2023-08-24
Abstract

Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are plastic immune cells divided into 3 main subsets, characterized by distinct phenotypic and functional profiles. Using single cell approaches, heightened heterogeneity of mouse ILCs has been appreciated, imprinted by tissue signals that shape their transcriptome and epigenome. Intra-subset diversity has also been observed in human ILCs. However, combined transcriptomic and epigenetic analyses of single ILCs in humans are lacking. Here, we show high transcriptional and epigenetic heterogeneity among human circulating ILCs in healthy individuals. We describe phenotypically distinct subclusters and diverse chromatin accessibility within main ILC populations, compatible with differentially poised states. We validate the use of this healthy donor-based analysis as resource dataset to help inferring ILC changes occurring in disease conditions. Overall, our work provides insights in the complex human ILC biology. We anticipate it to facilitate hypothesis-driven studies in patients, without the need to perform single cell OMICs using precious patients' material.

Keywords
  • Cell biology
  • Components of the immune system
  • Immunology
  • Transcriptomics
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FALQUET, Maryline et al. Dynamic single-cell regulomes characterize human peripheral blood innate lymphoid cell subpopulations. In: iScience, 2023, vol. 26, n° 9, p. 107728. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107728
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