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ArticleScientific reports2025

Integrated workflow for analysis of immune enriched spatial proteomic data with IMmuneCite.

Arianna Barbetta, Sarah Bangerth, Jason T C Lee, Brittany Rocque, Evanthia T Roussos Torres, Rohit Kohli, Omid Akbari, Juliet Emamaullee

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors.

Arianna BarbettaDivision of Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo Street, Suite 412, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7062-3236
Sarah BangerthDivision of Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo Street, Suite 412, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-0679
Jason T C LeeDivision of Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo Street, Suite 412, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8681-8257
Brittany RocqueDivision of Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo Street, Suite 412, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3664-4946
Evanthia T Roussos TorresDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0740-5102
Rohit KohliDivision of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0198-7703
Omid AkbariDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6853-9884
Juliet EmamaulleeDivision of Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo Street, Suite 412, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA. Juliet.Emamaullee@med.usc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4238-3057

Funding

Induction of cells and pathways that promote respiratory tolerance in allergic asthmaR01HL144790 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI AKBARI, OMID · 2019 to 2022
$2.6M
Transcriptional and metabolomic regulation of IL-10 in pulmonary ILC2sR01AI169687 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI OMID AKBARI · 2022 to 2026
$2.1M
Immunologic Biomarkers of Rejection in Clinical Liver TransplantationK08CA245220 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI EMAMAULLEE, JULIET · 2020 to 2024
$1.3M
California Institute of Regenerative Medicine Fellowship Training GrantNCI NIH HHS K08 CA245220NCI NIH HHS K08CA245220NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL144790NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI169687OneLegacy Foundation Fellowship Training Grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial proteomics enable detailed analysis of tissue at single cell resolution. However, creating reliable segmentation masks and assigning accurate cell phenotypes to discrete cellular phenotypes can be challenging. We introduce IMmuneCite, a computational framework for comprehensive image pre-processing and single-cell dataset creation, focused on defining complex immune landscapes when using spatial proteomics platforms. We demonstrate that IMmuneCite facilitates the identification of 32 discrete immune cell phenotypes using data from human liver samples while substantially reducing nonbiological cell clusters arising from co-localization of markers for different cell lineages. We established its versatility and ability to accommodate any antibody panel and different species by applying IMmuneCite to data from murine liver tissue. This approach enabled deep characterization of different functional states in each immune compartment, uncovering key features of the immune microenvironment in clinical liver transplantation and murine hepatocellular carcinoma. In conclusion, we demonstrated that IMmuneCite is a user-friendly, integrated computational platform that facilitates investigation of the immune microenvironment across species, while ensuring the creation of an immune focused, spatially resolved single-cell proteomic dataset to provide high fidelity, biologically relevant analyses.

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ProteomeProteomicsAnimalsCarcinoma, HepatocellularComputational BiologyHumansLiverLiver NeoplasmsLiver TransplantationMiceSingle-Cell AnalysisWorkflowProteomeImmune microenvironmentInformatics pipelineSingle cell proteomicsSpatial biology

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PMID40102469
PMCPMC11920390

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