Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Single-cell profiling of healthy human kidney reveals features of sex-based transcriptional programs and tissue-specific immunity

  • Caitriona M. McEvoy,
  • Julia M. Murphy,
  • Lin Zhang,
  • Sergi Clotet-Freixas,
  • Jessica A. Mathews,
  • James An,
  • Mehran Karimzadeh,
  • Delaram Pouyabahar,
  • Shenghui Su,
  • Olga Zaslaver,
  • Hannes Röst,
  • Rangi Arambewela,
  • Lewis Y. Liu,
  • Sally Zhang,
  • Keith A. Lawson,
  • Antonio Finelli,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Sonya A. MacParland,
  • Gary D. Bader,
  • Ana Konvalinka,
  • Sarah Q. Crome

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35297-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Knowledge of the transcriptional programs of human kidney cell populations at homeostasis is limited. Here, the authors show sex-based differences in gene expression of kidney parenchymal cells and examine the complexity of kidney-resident immune cells using single cell RNA sequencing of healthy living kidney donors.