Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals the mesangial identity and species diversity of glomerular cell transcriptomes

  • Bing He,
  • Ping Chen,
  • Sonia Zambrano,
  • Dina Dabaghie,
  • Yizhou Hu,
  • Katja Möller-Hackbarth,
  • David Unnersjö-Jess,
  • Gül Gizem Korkut,
  • Emmanuelle Charrin,
  • Marie Jeansson,
  • Maria Bintanel-Morcillo,
  • Anna Witasp,
  • Lars Wennberg,
  • Annika Wernerson,
  • Bernhard Schermer,
  • Thomas Benzing,
  • Patrik Ernfors,
  • Christer Betsholtz,
  • Mark Lal,
  • Rickard Sandberg,
  • Jaakko Patrakka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22331-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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The molecular identity of renal glomerular cells is poorly characterized and rodent glomerulopathy models translate poorly to humans. Here, the authors show molecular signatures of glomerulus-associated cells using single cell RNA sequencing and highlight differences between mouse and human cells.