Publication Date:
2014-04-18
Description:
The mammalian lung is a highly branched network in which the distal regions of the bronchial tree transform during development into a densely packed honeycomb of alveolar air sacs that mediate gas exchange. Although this transformation has been studied by marker expression analysis and fate-mapping, the mechanisms that control the progression of lung progenitors along distinct lineages into mature alveolar cell types are still incompletely known, in part because of the limited number of lineage markers and the effects of ensemble averaging in conventional transcriptome analysis experiments on cell populations. Here we show that single-cell transcriptome analysis circumvents these problems and enables direct measurement of the various cell types and hierarchies in the developing lung. We used microfluidic single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) on 198 individual cells at four different stages encompassing alveolar differentiation to measure the transcriptional states which define the developmental and cellular hierarchy of the distal mouse lung epithelium. We empirically classified cells into distinct groups by using an unbiased genome-wide approach that did not require a priori knowledge of the underlying cell types or the previous purification of cell populations. The results confirmed the basic outlines of the classical model of epithelial cell-type diversity in the distal lung and led to the discovery of many previously unknown cell-type markers, including transcriptional regulators that discriminate between the different populations. We reconstructed the molecular steps during maturation of bipotential progenitors along both alveolar lineages and elucidated the full life cycle of the alveolar type 2 cell lineage. This single-cell genomics approach is applicable to any developing or mature tissue to robustly delineate molecularly distinct cell types, define progenitors and lineage hierarchies, and identify lineage-specific regulatory factors.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4145853/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4145853/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Treutlein, Barbara -- Brownfield, Doug G -- Wu, Angela R -- Neff, Norma F -- Mantalas, Gary L -- Espinoza, F Hernan -- Desai, Tushar J -- Krasnow, Mark A -- Quake, Stephen R -- 5K08HL084095/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- K08 HL084095/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- T32 HD007249/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- T32HD007249/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- U01 HL099995/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- U01 HL099999/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- U01HL099995/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- U01HL099999/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 May 15;509(7500):371-5. doi: 10.1038/nature13173. Epub 2014 Apr 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Departments of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California 94305, USA [2]. ; 1] Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California 94305, USA [2]. ; Departments of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24739965" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Bronchi/cytology
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Cell Differentiation/genetics
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Cell Lineage/*genetics
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Epithelial Cells/classification/*cytology/*metabolism
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Female
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Genetic Markers
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Genome/genetics
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Genomics
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Lung/*cytology/embryology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Pulmonary Alveoli/cytology
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Pulmonary Gas Exchange
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Sequence Analysis, RNA/*methods
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Single-Cell Analysis/*methods
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Stem Cells/cytology
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Transcriptome/genetics
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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