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ArticleCell stem cell2025

ChemPerturb-seq screen identifies a small molecule cocktail enhancing human beta cell survival after subcutaneous transplantation.

J Jeya Vandana, Jiajun Zhu, Alice Maria Giani, Tuo Zhang, Lauretta A Lacko, Dongliang Leng, D Leland Taylor, Brian N Lee, Zhaowei Han, Tiancheng Jiao and 15 more

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Article in Cell stem cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Mitochondria-associated programmed cell death in pancreatic β cell of T2DM.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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25 authors.

J Jeya VandanaDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, The Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Jiajun ZhuDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA.
Alice Maria GianiHelen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Institute, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Tuo ZhangGenomic Resource Core Facility, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Lauretta A LackoDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA.
Dongliang LengDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA.
D Leland TaylorCenter for Precision Health Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Brian N LeeCenter for Precision Health Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Zhaowei HanDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Tiancheng JiaoDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Yuanhao HuangDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Meiqi ZhaoDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Xinyi LiuDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA.
Angie Chi Nok ChongDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA.
Dongxiang XueDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA.
Zihe MengDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA.
Jenny Z XiangGenomic Resource Core Facility, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Chendong PanGenomic Resource Core Facility, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Wei WangDepartment of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Ali NajiDepartment of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Todd EvansDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA.
Jie LiuDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Francis S CollinsCenter for Precision Health Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Chengyang LiuDepartment of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: chliu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Shuibing ChenDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: shc2034@med.cornell.edu.

Funding

VIRAL VECTOR COREP30DK019525 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI DOUGLAS J EPSTEIN · 1986 to 2026
$48.3M
NIDDK Network Coordinating UnitU24DK097771 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Shuibing Chen, Jeffrey S. Grethe · 2013 to 2026
$20.9M
PanKbase: a community hub for integrated pancreas knowledgeU24DK138515 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Marcela Brissova, Jean-Philippe Cartailler · 2024 to 2026
$11.3M
Determining the Intrinsic and Environmental Signal Contributing to Early T1D ProgressionU01DK127777 · NIDDK · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI CHEN, SHUIBING, PARKER, STEPHEN CJ · 2020 to 2023
$3.0M
Abnormal Extracellular Vesicles and Particles from Human Islets Impact T1D progressionR01DK137517 · NIDDK · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Shuibing Chen, DAVID CHARLES LYDEN · 2023 to 2026
$2.8M
Role of GLIS3 in Human Pancreatic Beta Cell Generation, Survival and ProliferationR01DK136005 · NIDDK · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Shuibing Chen · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
A High Content Chemical Screen to Identify the Drug Candidates Promoting Human Beta Cell ProliferationR01DK124463 · NIDDK · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI CHEN, SHUIBING · 2020 to 2023
$1.7M
Functional Interrogation of Type 2 Diabetes-associated Genetic NetworkR01DK142414 · NIDDK · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Shuibing Chen · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
Decode the Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on Human PancreasR01DK130454 · NIDDK · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI CHEN, SHUIBING, LIM, JEAN KYOU · 2021 to 2023
$1.3M
NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK019525NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK124463NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK130454NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK136005NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK137517NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK142414NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK127777NIDDK NIH HHS U24 DK097771NIDDK NIH HHS U24 DK138515
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traditional chemical screens have focused on a single assay per screen, making them labor intensive and costly. Here, we combined a chemical screen with single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to perform Chemical Perturb-seq (ChemPerturb-seq), enabling a systematic analysis of the molecular changes of human beta cells upon individual small molecule treatments. Using this platform, we performed an in vivo barcoded screen and discovered a small molecule cocktail, including beta-lipotropin 61-91, insulin growth factor-1, and prostaglandin E2, with which preconditioning human beta cells and primary islets significantly enhanced function and survival when transplanted subcutaneously to female, but not to male, mice. We identified two additional molecules, serotonin and histamine, that promote islet function when transplanted subcutaneously to male mice using ChemPerturb-seq. Such small molecule cocktails could be applied to improve the current FDA-approved islet transplantation procedure. Finally, we developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered website, ChemPerturbDB, which provides user-friendly open access analysis of the extensive ChemPerturb-seq dataset.

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Insulin-Secreting CellsIslets of Langerhans TransplantationSmall Molecule LibrariesAnimalsCell SurvivalFemaleHumansMaleMiceSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisSmall Molecule Librariesbeta-lipotropin 61-91ChemPerturb-seqhistamineinsulin growth factor-1islet transplantationprimary isletsprostaglandin E2serotonin

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PMID40562034
PMCPMC12335368

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