Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Dental cell type atlas reveals stem and differentiated cell types in mouse and human teeth

  • Jan Krivanek,
  • Ruslan A. Soldatov,
  • Maria Eleni Kastriti,
  • Tatiana Chontorotzea,
  • Anna Nele Herdina,
  • Julian Petersen,
  • Bara Szarowska,
  • Marie Landova,
  • Veronika Kovar Matejova,
  • Lydie Izakovicova Holla,
  • Ulrike Kuchler,
  • Ivana Vidovic Zdrilic,
  • Anushree Vijaykumar,
  • Anamaria Balic,
  • Pauline Marangoni,
  • Ophir D. Klein,
  • Vitor C. M. Neves,
  • Val Yianni,
  • Paul T. Sharpe,
  • Tibor Harkany,
  • Brian D. Metscher,
  • Marc Bajénoff,
  • Mina Mina,
  • Kaj Fried,
  • Peter V. Kharchenko,
  • Igor Adameyko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18512-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Unlike human teeth, mouse incisors grow throughout life, based on stem and progenitor cell activity. Here the authors generate single cell RNA-seq comparative maps of continuously-growing mouse incisor, non-growing mouse molar and human teeth, combined with lineage tracing to reveal dental cell complexity.