An organism-wide atlas of hormonal signaling based on the mouse lemur single-cell transcriptome
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Hormones mediate long-range cell communication in multicellular organisms and play vital roles in normal physiology, metabolism, and health. Using the newly-completed organism-wide single cell transcriptional atlas of a non-human primate, the mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus), we have systematically identified hormone-producing and -target cells for 84 classes of hormones, and have created a browsable atlas for hormone signaling that reveals previously unreported sites of hormone regulation and species-specific rewiring. Hormone ligands and receptors exhibited cell-type-dependent, stereotypical expression patterns, and their transcriptional profiles faithfully classified the molecular cell type identities, despite their comprising less than 1% of the transcriptome. Cells of similar cell types further display stage, subtype or organ-dependent specification of hormonal signaling, reflecting the precise control of global hormonal regulation. By linking ligand-expressing cells to the cells expressing the corresponding receptor, we constructed an organism-wide map of the hormonal cell communication network. This network was remarkably densely and robustly connected and included a myriad of feedback circuits. Although it includes classical hierarchical circuits (e.g. pituitary → peripheral endocrine gland → diverse cell types), the hormonal network is overall highly distributed without obvious network hubs or axes. Cross-species comparisons among humans, lemurs, and mice suggest that the mouse lemur better models human hormonal signaling, than does the mouse. Hormonal genes show a higher evolutionary conservation between human and lemur vs. human and mouse at both the genomic level (orthology-mapping and sequence identity) and the transcriptional level (cell type expression patterns). This primate hormone atlas provides a powerful resource to facilitate discovery of regulation on an organism-wide scale and at single-cell resolution, complementing the single-site-focused strategy of classical endocrine studies. The network nature of hormone regulation and the principles discovered here further emphasize the importance of a systems approach to understanding hormone regulation.
Description
| Type of resource | software, multimedia, text, Dataset |
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| Date created | October 10, 2023 |
| Date modified | October 12, 2023 |
| Publication date | August 29, 2022 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Liu, Shixuan | |
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| Author | Ezran, Camille | |
| Author | Wang, Michael F. Z. | |
| Author | Li, Zhengda | |
| Author | Awayan, Kyle | |
| Author | Long, Jonathon Z. | |
| Author | De Vlaminck, Iwijn | |
| Author | Wang, Sheng | |
| Author | Kuo, Christin | |
| Author | Epelbaum, Jacques | |
| Author | Terrien, Jeremy | |
| Author | Krasnow, Mark A. | |
| Author | Ferrell, James E. |
Subjects
| Subject | Hormone signaling |
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| Subject | Endocrinology |
| Subject | Mouse lemurs |
| Subject | Single cell RNA sequencing |
| Subject | Network |
| Genre | Software/code |
| Genre | Code |
| Genre | Documentation |
| Genre | Data |
| Genre | Computer program |
| Genre | Data sets |
| Genre | Dataset |
Bibliographic information
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.25740/yp860tc1411 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yp860tc1411 |
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- This work is licensed under an MIT License.
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- Liu, S., Ezran, C., Wang, M., Li, Z., Awayan, K., Long, J., De Vlaminck, I., Wang, S., Kuo, C., Epelbaum, J., Terrien, J., Krasnow, M., and Ferrell, J. (2023). An organism-wide atlas of hormonal signaling based on the mouse lemur single-cell transcriptome . Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/yp860tc1411. https://doi.org/10.25740/yp860tc1411.
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