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ArticleJournal of proteome research2025

Dynamics of Single-Cell Protein Covariation during Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition.

Saad Khan, Rachel Conover, Anand R Asthagiri, Nikolai Slavov

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Article in Journal of proteome research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Saad KhanDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Rachel ConoverDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Anand R AsthagiriDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Nikolai SlavovDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2035-1820

Funding

Single-cell proteomic identification of novel markers of senescenceUH3CA268117 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI DOU, ZHIXUN, RAJAGOPAL, JAYARAJ · 2023 to 2024
$1.9M
Molecular and metabolic influences on the activation of monocytes and macrophages at single-cell resolutionR35GM148218 · NIGMS · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI Nikolai Slavov · 2023 to 2026
$1.5M
Collaborative Research: DMS/NIGMS 2: Methods for Systematic Analysis of Post-transcriptional Regulation in Single CellsR01GM144967 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI FRANKS, ALEXANDER, SLAVOV, NIKOLAI · 2021 to 2024
$779k
Discovering proteins that explain single-cell heterogeneity in fibrillar migrationR21CA246150 · NCI · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI ASTHAGIRI, ANAND R · 2020 to 2021
$404k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA246150NCI NIH HHS UH3 CA268117NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM144967NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM148218
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physiological processes, such as the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), are mediated by changes in protein interactions. These changes may be better reflected in protein covariation within a cellular cluster than in the temporal dynamics of cluster-average protein abundance. To explore this possibility, we quantified proteins in single human cells undergoing EMT. Covariation analysis of the data revealed that functionally coherent protein clusters dynamically changed their protein-protein correlations without concomitant changes in the cluster-average protein abundance. These dynamics of protein-protein correlations were monotonic in time and delineated protein modules functioning in actin cytoskeleton organization, energy metabolism, and protein transport. These protein modules are defined by protein covariation within the same time point and cluster and, thus, reflect biological regulation masked by the cluster-average protein dynamics. Thus, protein correlation dynamics across single cells offers a window into protein regulation during physiological transitions.

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Epithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionCell LineCluster AnalysisDatasets as TopicHumansProtein Interaction MapsSingle-Cell Analysiscell adhesiondynamicsEMTepithelial−mesenchymal transitionmetabolismnPOPprotein correlationsprotein covariationSCoPE2single-cell proteomics

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PMID38663020
PMCPMC11502509

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