中国组织工程研究 ›› 2022, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (19): 3011-3017.doi: 10.12307/2022.379

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基于单细胞转录组测序分析人肋来源软骨细胞的异质性

师  航,李  佳,刘  霞,蒋海越   

  1. 中国医学科学院北京协和医学院整形外科医院研究中心,北京市   100144
  • 收稿日期:2021-03-23 修回日期:2021-04-28 接受日期:2021-08-04 出版日期:2022-07-08 发布日期:2021-12-28
  • 通讯作者: 刘霞,博士,研究员,中国医学科学院北京协和医学院整形外科医院研究中心,北京市 100144
  • 作者简介:师航,女,1995年生,黑龙江省双鸭山市人,汉族,2021年北京协和医学院毕业,硕士。
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金面上项目(81871575),项目负责人:刘霞;中国医学科学院医学与健康科技创新工程重大协同创新项目(2017-I2M-1-007),项目负责人:蒋海越

Heterogeneity of chondrocytes derived from human ribs based on single-cell transcriptome sequencing

Shi Hang, Li Jia, Liu Xia, Jiang Haiyue   

  1. Research Center of Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100144, China
  • Received:2021-03-23 Revised:2021-04-28 Accepted:2021-08-04 Online:2022-07-08 Published:2021-12-28
  • Contact: Liu Xia, MD, Researcher, Research Center of Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100144, China
  • About author:Shi Hang, Master, Research Center of Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100144, China
  • Supported by:
    General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81871575 (to LX); Major Collaborative Innovation Project of Medical and Health Technology Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 2017-I2M-1-007 (to JHY)

摘要:

文题释义:
单细胞转录组测序:以单个细胞为单位通过全基因组或转录组扩增进行高通量测序,能够揭示单个细胞的基因结构和基因表达状态,反映细胞间的异质性,其在肿瘤、干细胞研究、发育生物学等领域有重要应用,是现今生命科学研究的焦点。
细胞异质性:多细胞生物个体由多种形态功能不同的细胞组成,细胞在多次分裂增殖期间会发生分子生物学或基因方面的改变,从而产生细胞状态或类型的多样性,这种多样性为细胞异质性。研究细胞异质性,是一个单细胞层面的范畴,单细胞间的异质性存在于DNA、RNA、蛋白等各个层面。

背景:肋软骨是人体组织中一类重要的软骨来源,常作为软骨自体移植和组织工程构建的种子细胞来源。单细胞测序是分析细胞异质性的强大工具,可针对肋软骨细胞进行细胞异质性的深入研究。
目的:通过单细胞转录组测序分析人肋软骨组织细胞分群情况,以及每个细胞亚群参与的生物学过程。
方法:临床获取1例31岁小耳重建手术后废弃的肋软骨组织制成原代细胞悬液,经10X Genomics平台进行单细胞分离,使用Gel Bead Kit V3构建单细胞RNA-seq文库,Illumina Novaseq6000测序仪对文库进行测序,并利用主成分分析和T分布随机邻域嵌入进行降维,获得4个亚群细胞,进而获得不同亚群细胞的标记基因,再对每个细胞亚群的标记基因进行GO和KEGG分析,分析这些基因可能参与的生物学过程。
结果与结论:测序共获取6 634个细胞,符合质控标准。将肋软骨细胞划分为4个细胞亚群,分别为以COL10A1、S100A2为标记基因的肥大软骨细胞群;以BMP2、COL2A1为标记基因的软骨细胞群;以FOS、JUN为标记基因的增殖性细胞群;以MYLK、CD146为标记基因的干细胞群。将肋软骨细胞进一步划分细胞亚群,有利于深入了解肋软骨细胞的异质性,对其作为种子细胞应用及疾病认识都有积极意义。

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6484-3689 (师航) 

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:干细胞;骨髓干细胞;造血干细胞;脂肪干细胞;肿瘤干细胞;胚胎干细胞;脐带脐血干细胞;干细胞诱导;干细胞分化;组织工程

关键词: 单细胞转录组, 测序, 肋软骨, 软骨细胞, 标记基因, 细胞分群

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Costal cartilage is an important source of cartilage in human tissues. It is often used as a source of seed cells for cartilage autograft and tissue engineering. As a powerful tool for analyzing cell heterogeneity, single-cell sequencing can conduct in-depth research on costal chondrocyte heterogeneity.  
OBJECTIVE: Single-cell transcriptome sequencing is used to analyze the cell grouping of human costal cartilage tissue and the biological processes involved in each cell subgroup.
METHODS:  A 31-year-old case of costal cartilage tissue discarded after a microtia reconstruction operation was obtained clinically and made into a primary cell suspension. Single-cell isolation was performed on the 10X Genomics platform. A single-cell RNA-seq library was constructed using Gel Bead Kit V3, and the library was analyzed by Illumina Novaseq6000 Sequencing and dimensionality reduction using Principal Component Analysis and  t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding were used to obtain four subgroups of cells, and then to obtain marker genes for different subgroups of cells. GO and KEGG analyses were performed on the marker genes of each cell subgroup to analyze the biological processes that these genes may participate in.  
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: A total of 6 634 cells were obtained by sequencing, which met the quality control standards. The costal chondrocytes are divided into four cell subgroups, namely, hypertrophic chondrocyte population with COL10A1 and S100A2 as marker genes; chondrocyte population with BMP2 and COL2A1 as marker genes; and proliferative cells with FOS and JUN as marker genes; stem cell population with MYLK and CD146 as marker genes. The further division of costal chondrocytes into cell subgroups is helpful for in-depth understanding of the heterogeneity of cost chondrocytes, and has positive significance for its application as seed cells and understanding of diseases.

Key words: single-cell transcriptome, sequencing, costal cartilage, chondrocytes, marker gene, cell grouping

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