A spatially resolved atlas of the human lung characterizes a gland-associated immune niche
import lamindb as ln
import spatialdata as sd
coll = ln.Collection.get(key="doi-10.1038/s41588-022-01243-4")
coll.ordered_artifacts.df() # the 20 members, ordered
# download every member .zarr to the local cache:
paths = [a.cache() for a in coll.ordered_artifacts.all()]
# …or load each straight into memory as a SpatialData object:
sdatas = {a.key: sd.read_zarr(a.cache()) for a in coll.ordered_artifacts.all()} A spatially resolved atlas of the human lung characterizes a gland-associated immune niche.
Single-cell transcriptomics has allowed unprecedented resolution of cell types/states in the human lung, but their spatial context is less well defined. To (re)define tissue architecture of lung and airways, we profiled five proximal-to-distal locations of healthy human lungs in depth using multi-omic single cell/nuclei and spatial transcriptomics (queryable at lungcellatlas.org ). Using computational data integration and analysis, we extend beyond the suspension cell paradigm and discover macro and micro-anatomical tissue compartments including previously unannotated cell types in the epithelial, vascular, stromal and nerve bundle micro-environments. We identify and implicate peribronchial fibroblasts in lung disease. Importantly, we discover and validate a survival niche for IgA plasma cells in the airway submucosal glands (SMG). We show that gland epithelial cells recruit B cells and IgA plasma cells, and promote longevity and antibody secretion locally through expression of CCL28, APRIL and IL-6. This new 'gland-associated immune niche' has implications for respiratory health.
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doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01243-4 ↗@article{Madissoon_2022,
title = {A spatially resolved atlas of the human lung characterizes a gland-associated immune niche},
volume = {55},
ISSN = {1546-1718},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01243-4},
DOI = {10.1038/s41588-022-01243-4},
number = {1},
journal = {Nature Genetics},
publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
author = {Madissoon, Elo and Oliver, Amanda J. and Kleshchevnikov, Vitalii and Wilbrey-Clark, Anna and Polanski, Krzysztof and Richoz, Nathan and Ribeiro Orsi, Ana and Mamanova, Lira and Bolt, Liam and Elmentaite, Rasa and Pett, J. Patrick and Huang, Ni and Xu, Chuan and He, Peng and Dabrowska, Monika and Pritchard, Sophie and Tuck, Liz and Prigmore, Elena and Perera, Shani and Knights, Andrew and Oszlanczi, Agnes and Hunter, Adam and Vieira, Sara F. and Patel, Minal and Lindeboom, Rik G. H. and Campos, Lia S. and Matsuo, Kazuhiko and Nakayama, Takashi and Yoshida, Masahiro and Worlock, Kaylee B. and Nikolić, Marko Z. and Georgakopoulos, Nikitas and Mahbubani, Krishnaa T. and Saeb-Parsy, Kourosh and Bayraktar, Omer Ali and Clatworthy, Menna R. and Stegle, Oliver and Kumasaka, Natsuhiko and Teichmann, Sarah A. and Meyer, Kerstin B.},
year = {2022},
month = Dec,
pages = {66–77}
}