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ArticleScientific reports2013

Transcriptome sequencing of neonatal thymic epithelial cells.

Charles St-Pierre, Sylvie Brochu, Juan Ruiz Vanegas, Maude Dumont-Lagacé, Sébastien Lemieux, Claude Perreault

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Article in Scientific reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The role of interferon in the thymus.Current opinion in immunology · 2023
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  5. Investigating Thymic Epithelial Cell Diversity Using Systems Biology.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2023
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  7. Frontiers in immunology · 2023
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  9. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023
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  12. The ICOS-ICOSL pathway tunes thymic selection.Immunology and cell biology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Charles St-PierreInstitute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7.
Sylvie Brochu
Juan Ruiz Vanegas
Maude Dumont-Lagacé
Sébastien Lemieux
Claude Perreault
Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP-42384
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In order to gain novel insights into thymus biology, we analysed the whole transcriptome of cortical and medullary thymic epithelial cells (cTECs and mTECs) and of skin epithelial cells (ECs). Consistent with their ability to express ectopic genes, mTECs expressed more genes than other cell populations. Out of a total of 15,069 genes expressed in TECs, 25% were differentially expressed by at least 5-fold in cTECs vs. mTECs. Genes expressed at higher levels in cTECs than mTECs regulate numerous cell functions including cell differentiation, cell movement and microtubule dynamics. Many positive regulators of the cell cycle were overexpressed in skin ECs relative to TECs. Our RNA-seq data provide novel systems-level insights into the transcriptional landscape of TECs, highlight substantial divergences in the transcriptome of TEC subsets and suggest that cell cycle progression is differentially regulated in TECs and skin ECs.

Indexed as

Gene Expression ProfilingAnimalsAnimals, NewbornBiomarkersCell DifferentiationEpithelial CellsFlow CytometryMiceMice, Inbred C57BLOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisSkinThymus GlandBiomarkers

Identifiers

PMID23681267
PMCPMC3656389
OpenAlexW2021507466

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