Mapping the human DC lineage through the integration of high-dimensional techniques

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Peter See, Charles-Antoine Dutertre, Jinmiao Chen, Patrick Günther, Naomi McGovern, Sergio Erdal Irac, Merry Gunawan, Marc Beyer, Kristian Händler, Kaibo Duan, Hermi Rizal Bin Sumatoh, Nicolas Ruffin, Mabel Jouve, Ester Gea-Mallorquí, Raoul C. M. Hennekam, Tony Lim, Chan Chung Yip, Ming Wen, Benoit Malleret, Ivy Low, Nurhidaya Binte Shadan, Charlene Foong Shu Fen, Alicia Tay, Josephine Lum, Francesca Zolezzi, Anis Larbi, Michael Poidinger, Jerry K. Y. Chan, Qingfeng Chen, Laurent Rénia, Muzlifah Haniffa, Philippe Benaroch, Andreas Schlitzer, Joachim L. Schultze, Evan W. Newell, Florent Ginhoux
Abstract

Tracing development of the dendritic cell lineage

Dendritic cells (DCs) are important components of the immune system that form from the bone marrow into two major cell lineages: plasmacytoid DCs and conventional DCs. See
et al.
applied single-cell RNA sequencing and cytometry by time-of-flight to characterize the developmental pathways of these cells. They identified blood DC precursors that shared surface markers with plasmacytoid DCs but that were functionally distinct. This unsuspected level of complexity in pre-DC populations reveals additional cell types and refines understanding of known cell types.

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