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ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2021

Gene Signatures of NEUROGENIN3+ Endocrine Progenitor Cells in the Human Pancreas.

Hyo Jeong Yong, Gengqiang Xie, Chengyang Liu, Wei Wang, Ali Naji, Jerome Irianto, Yue J Wang

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Article in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hyo Jeong YongDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
Gengqiang XieDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
Chengyang LiuDepartment of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Wei WangDepartment of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Ali NajiDepartment of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Jerome IriantoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
Yue J WangDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
Florida State University · USHospital of the University of Pennsylvania · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

NEUROGENIN3+ (NEUROG3+) cells are considered to be pancreatic endocrine progenitors. Our current knowledge on the molecular program of NEUROG3+ cells in humans is largely extrapolated from studies in mice. We hypothesized that single-cell RNA-seq enables in-depth exploration of the rare NEUROG3+ cells directly in humans. We aligned four large single-cell RNA-seq datasets from postnatal human pancreas. Our integrated analysis revealed 10 NEUROG3+ epithelial cells from a total of 11,174 pancreatic cells. Noticeably, human NEUROG3+ cells clustered with mature pancreatic cells and epsilon cells displayed the highest frequency of NEUROG3 positivity. We confirmed the co-expression of NEUROG3 with endocrine markers and the high percentage of NEUROG3+ cells among epsilon cells at the protein level based on immunostaining on pancreatic tissue sections. We further identified unique genetic signatures of the NEUROG3+ cells. Regulatory network inference revealed novel transcription factors including Prospero homeobox protein 1 (PROX1) may act jointly with NEUROG3. As NEUROG3 plays a central role in endocrine differentiation, knowledge gained from our study will accelerate the development of beta cell regeneration therapies to treat diabetes.

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Basic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsCell DifferentiationEndocrine CellsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGene Regulatory NetworksHumansNerve Tissue ProteinsPancreasStem CellsBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsNerve Tissue ProteinsNEUROG3 protein, humandata integrationendocrine progenitorepsilon cellshuman pancreasNEUROG3single-cell RNA-seq

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