NiCo identifies extrinsic drivers of cell state modulation by niche covariation analysis

A Agrawal, S Thomann, S Basu, D Grün - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Cell states are modulated by intrinsic driving forces such as gene expression noise and
extrinsic signals from the tissue microenvironment. The distinction between intrinsic and …

Living in a noisy world—origins of gene expression noise and its impact on cellular decision‐making

S Pal, R Dhar - FEBS letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The expression level of a gene can vary between genetically identical cells under the same
environmental condition—a phenomenon referred to as gene expression noise. Several …

Scalable identification of lineage-specific gene regulatory networks from metacells with NetID

W Wang, Y Wang, R Lyu, D Grün - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
The identification of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is crucial for understanding cellular
differentiation. Single-cell RNA sequencing data encode gene-level covariations at high …

Multimodal screen identifies noise-regulatory proteins

Ó García-Blay, X Hu, CL Wassermann… - Developmental Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Gene-expression noise can influence cell-fate choices across pathology and physiology.
However, a crucial question persists: do regulatory proteins or pathways exist that control …

Optimal distance metrics for single-cell RNA-seq populations

Y Ji, TD Green, S Peidli, M Bahrami, M Liu, L Zappia… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
In single-cell data workflows and modeling, distance metrics are commonly used in loss
functions, model evaluation, and subpopulation analysis. However, these metrics behave …

Piezo1 stretch‐activated channel activity differs between murine bone marrow‐derived and cardiac tissue‐resident macrophages

A Simon‐Chica, A Klesen, R Emig… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Macrophages (MΦ) play pivotal roles in tissue homeostasis and repair. Their mechanical
environment has been identified as a key modulator of various cell functions, and MΦ …

[HTML][HTML] Compound models and Pearson residuals for normalization of single-cell RNA-seq data without UMIs

J Lause, C Ziegenhain, L Hartmanis, P Berens… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Before downstream analysis can reveal biological signals in single-cell RNA sequencing
data, normalization and variance stabilization are required to remove technical noise …

Med12 cooperates with multiple differentiation signals to enhance embryonic stem cell plasticity

M Fernkorn, C Schröter - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Cell differentiation results from coordinated changes in gene transcription in response to
combinations of signals. FGF, Wnt, and mTOR signals regulate the differentiation of …

Spatio-temporal dynamics of the fibrotic niche in cardiac repair

D Grün, ASF Chan, J Greiner, T Brennan, A Agrawal… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The heart is one of the least regenerative organs in humans, and ischemic heart disease is
the leading cause of death worldwide. Understanding the cellular and molecular processes …

Multimodal screen reveals noise regulatory proteins

O Garcia-Blay, X Hu, CL Wassermann, T van Bokhoven… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Gene-expression noise can influence cell-fate choices across pathology and physiology.
However, a crucial question persists: do regulatory proteins or pathways exist that control …