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ArticleEMBO reports2026

Single-cell analysis of signalling and transcriptional responses to type I interferons.

Rachel E Rigby, Kevin Rue-Albrecht, Aleksandr Fedorov, David Sims, Jan Rehwinkel

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Article in EMBO reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  4. Transcriptional control of interferon-stimulated genes.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2024
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Rachel E RigbyMRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5201-9422
Kevin Rue-AlbrechtMRC WIMM Centre for Computational Biology, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3899-3872
Aleksandr FedorovMRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8829-3447
David SimsMRC WIMM Centre for Computational Biology, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Jan RehwinkelMRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. jan.rehwinkel@imm.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-3841-835X

Funding

EPA fund CF268UKRI | Medical Research Council (MRC) G0902418UKRI | Medical Research Council (MRC) MC_UU_00008UKRI | Medical Research Council (MRC) MC_UU_12009UKRI | Medical Research Council (MRC) MC_UU_12025UKRI | Medical Research Council (MRC) MR/M00919X/1Wellcome Trust (WT) 097813/Z/11/B#
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Type I interferons (IFNs) play crucial roles in antiviral defence, autoinflammation and cancer immunity. The human genome encodes 17 different type I IFNs that all signal through the same receptor. Non-redundant functions have been reported for some type I IFNs. However, whether different type I IFNs induce different responses remains largely unknown. Here, we stimulate human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) with recombinant type I IFNs to address this question in multiple types of primary cells. We analyse signalling responses by mass cytometry and changes in gene expression by bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing. We find cell-type specific changes in the phosphorylation of STAT transcription factors and in the gene sets induced and repressed upon type I IFN exposure. We further report that the magnitude of these responses varies between different type I IFNs, while qualitatively different responses to type I IFN subtypes are not apparent. Taken together, we provide a rich resource mapping signalling responses and IFN-regulated genes in immune cells.

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Interferon Type ISignal TransductionSingle-Cell AnalysisTranscription, GeneticGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationHumansLeukocytes, MononuclearPhosphorylationSingle-Cell Gene Expression AnalysisSTAT Transcription FactorsInterferon Type ISTAT Transcription FactorsInterferon Stimulated GenesMass CytometryPBMCsSingle-cell RNAseqType I Interferon

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PMID41896367
PMCPMC13172048

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