Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Single-nucleus RNA-seq and FISH identify coordinated transcriptional activity in mammalian myofibers

  • Matthieu Dos Santos,
  • Stéphanie Backer,
  • Benjamin Saintpierre,
  • Brigitte Izac,
  • Muriel Andrieu,
  • Franck Letourneur,
  • Frederic Relaix,
  • Athanassia Sotiropoulos,
  • Pascal Maire

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18789-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Whether skeletal muscle fibre gene expression is coordinated as a whole in different nuclei in the fibre is unclear. Here, the authors use single nucleus RNAseq and ATACseq to show the transcriptome heterogeneity of muscle nuclei in the adult mouse fibre, with correlations between the two datasets.