Myasthenia gravis-specific aberrant neuromuscular gene expression by medullary thymic epithelial cells in thymoma

myasthenia gravis;重症肌无力;单细胞测序;单细胞多组学
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Yoshiaki Yasumizu, Naganari Ohkura, Hisashi Murata, Makoto Kinoshita, Soichiro Funaki, Satoshi Nojima, Kansuke Kido, Masaharu Kohara, Daisuke Motooka, Daisuke Okuzaki, Shuji Suganami, Eriko Takeuchi, Yamami Nakamura, Yusuke Takeshima, Masaya Arai, Satoru Tada, Meinoshin Okumura, Eiichi Morii, Yasushi Shintani, Shimon Sakaguchi, Tatsusada Okuno, Hideki Mochizuki

  • Nat Commun
  • 2022
  • 17.694
  • 13(1):4230.
  • Human
  • 单细胞测序
  • T cell
  • 运动系统
  • 64649
  • 上皮细胞
  • 重症肌无力

Abstract

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a neurological disease caused by autoantibodies against neuromuscular-associated proteins. While MG frequently develops in thymoma patients, the etiologic factors for MG are not well understood. Here, by constructing a comprehensive atlas of thymoma using bulk and single-cell RNA-sequencing, we identify ectopic expression of neuromuscular molecules in MG-type thymoma. These molecules are found within a distinct subpopulation of medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs), which we name neuromuscular mTECs (nmTECs). MG-thymoma also exhibits microenvironments dedicated to autoantibody production, including ectopic germinal center formation, T follicular helper cell accumulation, and type 2 conventional dendritic cell migration. Cell-cell interaction analysis also predicts the interaction between nmTECs and T/B cells via CXCL12-CXCR4. The enrichment of nmTECs presenting neuromuscular molecules within MG-thymoma is further confirmed immunohistochemically and by cellular composition estimation from the MG-thymoma transcriptome. Altogether, this study suggests that nmTECs have a significant function in MG pathogenesis via ectopic expression of neuromuscular molecules.
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