Single-cell atlases: shared and tissue-specific cell types across human organs

R Elmentaite, C Domínguez Conde, L Yang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics methods was instrumental in the
conception of the Human Cell Atlas initiative, which aims to generate an integrated map of …

The unique biology of germinal center B cells

C Young, R Brink - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Germinal center (GC) B cells are the source of the high-affinity, class-switched antibodies
required for protective immunity. The unique biology of GC B cells involves iterative rounds …

Cross-tissue immune cell analysis reveals tissue-specific features in humans

C Domínguez Conde, C Xu, LB Jarvis, DB Rainbow… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Despite their crucial role in health and disease, our knowledge of immune cells within
human tissues remains limited. We surveyed the immune compartment of 16 tissues from 12 …

Cell2location maps fine-grained cell types in spatial transcriptomics

V Kleshchevnikov, A Shmatko, E Dann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomic technologies promise to resolve cellular wiring diagrams of tissues in
health and disease, but comprehensive mapping of cell types in situ remains a challenge …

[HTML][HTML] Tertiary lymphoid structures generate and propagate anti-tumor antibody-producing plasma cells in renal cell cancer

M Meylan, F Petitprez, E Becht, A Bougoüin, G Pupier… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
The presence of intratumoral tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) is associated with positive
clinical outcomes and responses to immunotherapy in cancer. Here, we used spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial profiling of chromatin accessibility in mouse and human tissues

Y Deng, M Bartosovic, S Ma, D Zhang, P Kukanja… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cellular function in tissue is dependent on the local environment, requiring new methods for
spatial mapping of biomolecules and cells in the tissue context. The emergence of spatial …

Germinal centre-driven maturation of B cell response to mRNA vaccination

W Kim, JQ Zhou, SC Horvath, AJ Schmitz, AJ Sturtz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Germinal centres (GC) are lymphoid structures in which B cells acquire affinity-enhancing
somatic hypermutations (SHM), with surviving clones differentiating into memory B cells …

Spatially informed clustering, integration, and deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics with GraphST

Y Long, KS Ang, M Li, KLK Chong, R Sethi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics technologies generate gene expression profiles with spatial context,
requiring spatially informed analysis tools for three key tasks, spatial clustering, multisample …

High-plex protein and whole transcriptome co-mapping at cellular resolution with spatial CITE-seq

Y Liu, M DiStasio, G Su, H Asashima, A Enninful… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In this study, we extended co-indexing of transcriptomes and epitopes (CITE) to the spatial
dimension and demonstrated high-plex protein and whole transcriptome co-mapping. We …

The landscape of tumor cell states and ecosystems in diffuse large B cell lymphoma

CB Steen, BA Luca, MS Esfahani, A Azizi, BJ Sworder… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Biological heterogeneity in diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is partly driven by cell-of-
origin subtypes and associated genomic lesions, but also by diverse cell types and cell …