Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Single-cell sequencing shows cellular heterogeneity of cutaneous lesions in lupus erythematosus

  • Meiling Zheng,
  • Zhi Hu,
  • Xiaole Mei,
  • Lianlian Ouyang,
  • Yang Song,
  • Wenhui Zhou,
  • Yi Kong,
  • Ruifang Wu,
  • Shijia Rao,
  • Hai Long,
  • Wei Shi,
  • Hui Jing,
  • Shuang Lu,
  • Haijing Wu,
  • Sujie Jia,
  • Qianjin Lu,
  • Ming Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35209-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) and systemic LE (SLE) can present as cutaneous lesions. Here the authors characterise an scRNA dataset of cutaneous lesions from these patients and compare these to healthy controls showing differential immune cell recruitment, cell type and gene expression.