Single-Cell Transcriptomics of Regulatory T Cells Reveals Trajectories of Tissue Adaptation

Immunity

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 493-504.e7

  Miragaia, Ricardo J ^a,b   Gomes, Tomás ^a   Chomka, Agnieszka ^c,d   Jardine, Laura ^e   Riedel, Angela ^f   Hegazy, Ahmed N ^c,d   Whibley, Natasha ^c   Tucci, Andrea ^c   Chen, Xi ^a   Lindeman, Ida ^a,g   Emerton, Guy ^a   Krausgruber, Thomas ^c,d   Shields, Jacqueline ^f   Haniffa, Muzlifah ^e   Powrie, Fiona ^c,d   Teichmann, Sarah A ^a,h,i  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL MIGRATION; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPH NODE; MELANOMA; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SKIN; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; COLON; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SKIN; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85061380809     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2019.01.001     Document Type: Article

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