Wen Q, Ren H H, Zhao Y M, Yan W J, Ge L H, Chen X X
First Clinical Division, Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology & National Center for Stomatology & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & National Engineering Research Center of Oral Biomaterials and Digital Medical Devices & Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Stomatology, Beijing 100034, China.
Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology & National Center for Stomatology & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & National Engineering Research Center of Oral Biomaterials and Digital Medical Devices & Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Stomatology, Beijing 100081, China.
Zhonghua Kou Qiang Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2023 May 9;58(5):442-450. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112144-20220901-00471.
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) was used to analyze the developing mouse molars, in order to construct a spatiotemporal development atlas of pulp cells, and further to reveal the developmental process and regulatory mechanism of tooth development. Ten mandibular first molars from C57BL/6 mice in postnatal day (PN) 0 and 3 were respectively dissected and digested to obtain single-cell suspensions. scRNA-seq was performed on 10× Genomics platform. PN 7 mouse molar scRNA-seq data were obtained from our previous study. PN 0, 3, and 7 scRNA-seq data were integrated for following analysis. The initial quality control, mapping and single cell expression matrix construction were performed by Cell Ranger. Quality control, standardization, dimensional reduction and cluster analysis were performed by using Seurat. Monocle was used to generate the pseudotime trajectory. Scillus was used to perform gene ontology analysis. In order to detect the spatiotemporal change of different population of pulp cells, the marker genes of each cluster were demonstrated by RNAscope in situ hybridization. There were twenty-six cell clusters within mouse molars, which were identified as eight different cell types, including dental pulp cells, dental follicle cells, epithelial cells, immune cells, endothelial cells, perivascular cells, glial cells and erythrocytes. We further re-clustered and analyzed dental pulp cells. Cluster 0 were mature pulp cells, which located at the upper portion of crown. The main functions of cluster 0 were osteogenesis and extracellular structure organization. Cluster 1 were apical papilla cells, which located at the apical part of roots, whose main functions were extracellular structure organization and organ development. Cluster 2 were cycling cells, which were actively proliferated, resided in the lower portion of the crown. Cluster 3 and 4 were preodontoblasts and odontoblasts, respectively. Their functions were closely related to biomineralization. The proportion of mature pulp cells increased with the development process, while the proportion of cycling cells and odontoblast lineage decreased. According to the expression pattern of marker genes of each cluster, we constructed a cell atlas of dental pulp. Pseudotime trajectory analysis found there were two development trajectories within dental pulp. They both started from SPARC related modular calcium binding 2 (Smoc2)+ dental papilla cells, then went through DNA topoisomerase Ⅱ alpha (Top2a)+ cycling cells, and finally divided into coxsackie virus and adenovirus receptor (Cxadr)+ mature pulp cells or dentin sialophosphoprotein (Dspp)+ odontoblasts two lineages. scRNA-seq could fully discover the intercellular heterogeneity of cells on transcriptome level, which provides a powerful tool to study the process and regulatory mechanism of organ development.
采用单细胞RNA测序(scRNA-seq)分析发育中的小鼠磨牙,以构建牙髓细胞的时空发育图谱,并进一步揭示牙齿发育的过程和调控机制。分别解剖并消化出生后第0天(PN0)和第3天的C57BL/6小鼠的10颗下颌第一磨牙,以获得单细胞悬液。在10×Genomics平台上进行scRNA-seq。PN7小鼠磨牙的scRNA-seq数据来自我们之前的研究。整合PN0、3和7的scRNA-seq数据用于后续分析。通过Cell Ranger进行初始质量控制、比对和单细胞表达矩阵构建。使用Seurat进行质量控制、标准化、降维和聚类分析。使用Monocle生成伪时间轨迹。使用Scillus进行基因本体分析。为了检测不同牙髓细胞群体的时空变化,通过RNAscope原位杂交展示每个聚类的标记基因。小鼠磨牙内有26个细胞聚类,被鉴定为8种不同的细胞类型,包括牙髓细胞、牙囊细胞、上皮细胞、免疫细胞、内皮细胞、血管周细胞、神经胶质细胞和红细胞。我们进一步对牙髓细胞进行重新聚类和分析。聚类0是成熟牙髓细胞,位于牙冠上部。聚类0的主要功能是成骨和细胞外结构组织。聚类1是根尖乳头细胞,位于牙根尖部,其主要功能是细胞外结构组织和器官发育。聚类2是循环细胞,它们活跃增殖,位于牙冠下部。聚类3和4分别是前成牙本质细胞和成牙本质细胞。它们的功能与生物矿化密切相关。成熟牙髓细胞的比例随着发育过程增加,而循环细胞和成牙本质细胞谱系的比例下降。根据每个聚类标记基因的表达模式,我们构建了牙髓细胞图谱。伪时间轨迹分析发现牙髓内有两条发育轨迹。它们都从富含半胱氨酸的酸性分泌蛋白相关模块化钙结合蛋白2(Smoc2)+牙乳头细胞开始,然后经过DNA拓扑异构酶Ⅱα(Top2a)+循环细胞,最终分为柯萨奇病毒和腺病毒受体(Cxadr)+成熟牙髓细胞或牙本质涎磷蛋白(Dspp)+成牙本质细胞两个谱系。scRNA-seq能够在转录组水平上充分发现细胞间的异质性,为研究器官发育的过程和调控机制提供了有力工具。
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