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ArticleNature communications2021

Inference and analysis of cell-cell communication using CellChat.

Suoqin Jin, Christian F Guerrero-Juarez, Lihua Zhang, Ivan Chang, Raul Ramos, Chen-Hsiang Kuan, Peggy Myung, Maksim V Plikus, Qing Nie

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07527247 (Using AS01 Adjuvant to Improve Immune Response in Older Adults Through Trained Immunity), which is not on this map. Cited by 5,682 papers.

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2 · The registry

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NCT07527247 phase2recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Using AS01 Adjuvant to Improve Immune Response in Older Adults Through Trained Immunity

TypeinterventionalSponsorSingapore General HospitalRan2025 to 2029Enrolled40ConditionsImmune System Responses and Trained Immunity After AS01 Administration, Healthy AdultArmsAS01 adjuvant (0.5 mL intramuscular), YF17D (Stamaril, Sanofi-Pasteur), Placebo (NaCl 09%, 0.5mL)
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Suoqin JinDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5131-0215
Christian F Guerrero-JuarezDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6245-6412
Lihua ZhangDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Ivan ChangDepartment of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Raul RamosNSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Chen-Hsiang KuanDepartment of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Peggy MyungDepartment of Dermatology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2970-4170
Maksim V PlikusNSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA. plikus@uci.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8845-2559
Qing NieDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA. qnie@uci.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8804-3368

Funding

UCI P30 Skin Center Systems Biology CoreP30AR075047 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI ANDERSEN, BOGI, GANESAN, ANAND K · 2019 to 2025
$5.1M
Multiscale Models of Wound Cell Plasticity for RegenerationU01AR073159 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI DAI, XING, NIE, QING · 2018 to 2022
$3.5M
Mammary basal/stem cell plasticity and regulationR01GM123731 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI DAI, XING · 2017 to 2020
$1.9M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIAMS NIH HHS P30 AR075047NIAMS NIH HHS U01 AR073159NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM123731
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding global communications among cells requires accurate representation of cell-cell signaling links and effective systems-level analyses of those links. We construct a database of interactions among ligands, receptors and their cofactors that accurately represent known heteromeric molecular complexes. We then develop CellChat, a tool that is able to quantitatively infer and analyze intercellular communication networks from single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. CellChat predicts major signaling inputs and outputs for cells and how those cells and signals coordinate for functions using network analysis and pattern recognition approaches. Through manifold learning and quantitative contrasts, CellChat classifies signaling pathways and delineates conserved and context-specific pathways across different datasets. Applying CellChat to mouse and human skin datasets shows its ability to extract complex signaling patterns. Our versatile and easy-to-use toolkit CellChat and a web-based Explorer ( http://www.cellchat.org/ ) will help discover novel intercellular communications and build cell-cell communication atlases in diverse tissues.

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AlgorithmsAnimalsCell CommunicationComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingHumansInternetMiceModels, TheoreticalSequence Analysis, RNASignal TransductionSingle-Cell AnalysisSkinSoftware

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PMID33597522
PMCPMC7889871

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