Cross-species single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals disparate and conserved cardiac and extracardiac inflammatory responses upon heart injury

Abstract The immune system coordinates the response to cardiac injury and controls regenerative and fibrotic scar outcomes in the heart and subsequent chronic low-grade inflammation associated with heart failure. Adult mice and humans lack the ability to fully recover while adult zebrafish spontaneo...

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Main Authors: Eric Cortada, Jun Yao, Yu Xia, Friederike Dündar, Paul Zumbo, Boris Yang, Alfonso Rubio-Navarro, Björn Perder, Miaoyan Qiu, Anthony M. Pettinato, Edwin A. Homan, Lisa Stoll, Doron Betel, Jingli Cao, James C. Lo
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-12-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07315-x
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author Eric Cortada
Jun Yao
Yu Xia
Friederike Dündar
Paul Zumbo
Boris Yang
Alfonso Rubio-Navarro
Björn Perder
Miaoyan Qiu
Anthony M. Pettinato
Edwin A. Homan
Lisa Stoll
Doron Betel
Jingli Cao
James C. Lo
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Jun Yao
Yu Xia
Friederike Dündar
Paul Zumbo
Boris Yang
Alfonso Rubio-Navarro
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Miaoyan Qiu
Anthony M. Pettinato
Edwin A. Homan
Lisa Stoll
Doron Betel
Jingli Cao
James C. Lo
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description Abstract The immune system coordinates the response to cardiac injury and controls regenerative and fibrotic scar outcomes in the heart and subsequent chronic low-grade inflammation associated with heart failure. Adult mice and humans lack the ability to fully recover while adult zebrafish spontaneously regenerate after heart injury. Here we profile the inflammatory response to heart cryoinjury in zebrafish and coronary artery ligation in mouse using single cell transcriptomics. We interrogate the extracardiac reaction to cardiomyocyte necrosis to assess the specific peripheral tissue and immune cell reaction to chronic stress. Cardiac macrophages play a critical role in determining tissue homeostasis by healing versus scarring. We identify distinct transcriptional clusters of monocytes/macrophages (mono/Mϕ) in each species and find analogous pairs in zebrafish and mice. However, the reaction to myocardial injury is largely disparate between mice and zebrafish. The dichotomous response to heart damage between the murine and zebrafish mono/Mϕ and/or the presence of distinct zebrafish mono/Mϕ subtypes may underlie the impaired regenerative process in adult mammals and humans. Our study furnishes a direct cross-species comparison of immune responses between regenerative and profibrotic myocardial injury models, providing a useful resource to the fields of regenerative biology and cardiovascular research.
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spelling doaj-art-db76a07b84b146119dc711b8764a9b4f2024-12-08T12:41:26ZengNature PortfolioCommunications Biology2399-36422024-12-017112010.1038/s42003-024-07315-xCross-species single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals disparate and conserved cardiac and extracardiac inflammatory responses upon heart injuryEric Cortada0Jun Yao1Yu Xia2Friederike Dündar3Paul Zumbo4Boris Yang5Alfonso Rubio-Navarro6Björn Perder7Miaoyan Qiu8Anthony M. Pettinato9Edwin A. Homan10Lisa Stoll11Doron Betel12Jingli Cao13James C. Lo14Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Weill Center for Metabolic Health, Weill Cornell MedicineCardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell MedicineCardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell MedicineApplied Bioinformatics Core, Weill Cornell MedicineApplied Bioinformatics Core, Weill Cornell MedicineDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Weill Center for Metabolic Health, Weill Cornell MedicineDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Weill Center for Metabolic Health, Weill Cornell MedicineCardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell MedicineCardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell MedicineDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Weill Center for Metabolic Health, Weill Cornell MedicineDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Weill Center for Metabolic Health, Weill Cornell MedicineDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Weill Center for Metabolic Health, Weill Cornell MedicineApplied Bioinformatics Core, Weill Cornell MedicineCardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell MedicineDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Weill Center for Metabolic Health, Weill Cornell MedicineAbstract The immune system coordinates the response to cardiac injury and controls regenerative and fibrotic scar outcomes in the heart and subsequent chronic low-grade inflammation associated with heart failure. Adult mice and humans lack the ability to fully recover while adult zebrafish spontaneously regenerate after heart injury. Here we profile the inflammatory response to heart cryoinjury in zebrafish and coronary artery ligation in mouse using single cell transcriptomics. We interrogate the extracardiac reaction to cardiomyocyte necrosis to assess the specific peripheral tissue and immune cell reaction to chronic stress. Cardiac macrophages play a critical role in determining tissue homeostasis by healing versus scarring. We identify distinct transcriptional clusters of monocytes/macrophages (mono/Mϕ) in each species and find analogous pairs in zebrafish and mice. However, the reaction to myocardial injury is largely disparate between mice and zebrafish. The dichotomous response to heart damage between the murine and zebrafish mono/Mϕ and/or the presence of distinct zebrafish mono/Mϕ subtypes may underlie the impaired regenerative process in adult mammals and humans. Our study furnishes a direct cross-species comparison of immune responses between regenerative and profibrotic myocardial injury models, providing a useful resource to the fields of regenerative biology and cardiovascular research.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07315-x
spellingShingle Eric Cortada
Jun Yao
Yu Xia
Friederike Dündar
Paul Zumbo
Boris Yang
Alfonso Rubio-Navarro
Björn Perder
Miaoyan Qiu
Anthony M. Pettinato
Edwin A. Homan
Lisa Stoll
Doron Betel
Jingli Cao
James C. Lo
Cross-species single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals disparate and conserved cardiac and extracardiac inflammatory responses upon heart injury
Communications Biology
title Cross-species single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals disparate and conserved cardiac and extracardiac inflammatory responses upon heart injury
title_full Cross-species single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals disparate and conserved cardiac and extracardiac inflammatory responses upon heart injury
title_fullStr Cross-species single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals disparate and conserved cardiac and extracardiac inflammatory responses upon heart injury
title_full_unstemmed Cross-species single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals disparate and conserved cardiac and extracardiac inflammatory responses upon heart injury
title_short Cross-species single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals disparate and conserved cardiac and extracardiac inflammatory responses upon heart injury
title_sort cross species single cell rna seq analysis reveals disparate and conserved cardiac and extracardiac inflammatory responses upon heart injury
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07315-x
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