Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Integration of single-cell transcriptomes and biological function reveals distinct behavioral patterns in bone marrow endothelium

  • Young-Woong Kim,
  • Greta Zara,
  • HyunJun Kang,
  • Sergio Branciamore,
  • Denis O’Meally,
  • Yuxin Feng,
  • Chia-Yi Kuan,
  • Yingjun Luo,
  • Michael S. Nelson,
  • Alex B. Brummer,
  • Russell Rockne,
  • Zhen Bouman Chen,
  • Yi Zheng,
  • Angelo A. Cardoso,
  • Nadia Carlesso

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34425-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Here Kim et al. show that primary BMECs can be maintained ex vivo as distinct sinusoidal- and arterial-like populations and that the presence of macrophages is critical to preserve their native transcriptomic profiles and functional heterogeneity.