Journal: iScience
Article Title: Spatial transcriptomics in embryonic mouse diaphragm muscle reveals regional gradients and subdomains of developmental gene expression
doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110018
Figure Lengend Snippet: Spatial Transcriptomics in horizontally sectioned E18.5 mouse diaphragm identifies specific functional muscle domains and fiber types (A) SpatialFeaturePlots demonstrating expression levels and distributions of NMJ genes ( Chrna1 , Musk , Etv5 , Ache , Chrng, Chrne ), neonatal ( Myh8 ) and embryonic ( Myh3 ) myosin heavy chains, developmental troponin Tnnt2 , and ventral diaphragm markers ( Myog , Flnc , Csrp3 ). (B) Spatial distribution of Seurat clusters of distinct muscle and tendon domains. (C) UMAP representation of identified clusters of spatial RNA sequencing indicates spatially and functionally divergent differentiation of diaphragm muscle. (D) FeaturePlots demonstrating expression of muscle ( Ttn , Myh3 , Myh8 ), type I muscle ( Myh7, Myl2, Myl3 ), type IIb muscle ( Myh4 , Pvalb , Mybpc2 ), NMJ ( Chrna1 , Musk , Etv5 ), MTJ ( Col22a1 , Ankrd1 , Uchl1 ) and tendon ( Tnmd , Col11a1 , Scx ) markers displayed by UMAP.
Article Snippet: Visium Spatial Transcriptomics sequencing data were aligned using the default SpaceRanger (2.0.1) pipeline for FFPE slides in a Singularity Container running Ubuntu 22.04 on a high-performance cluster (Medical University of Innsbruck).
Techniques: Functional Assay, Expressing, RNA Sequencing