PC3T: a signature-driven predictor of chemical compounds for cellular transition

Autor: Lu Han, Bin Song, Peilin Zhang, Zhi Zhong, Yongxiang Zhang, Xiaochen Bo, Hongyang Wang, Yong Zhang, Xiuliang Cui, Wenxia Zhou
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Communications Biology, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2399-3642
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05225-y
Popis: Abstract Cellular transitions hold great promise in translational medicine research. However, therapeutic applications are limited by the low efficiency and safety concerns of using transcription factors. Small molecules provide a temporal and highly tunable approach to overcome these issues. Here, we present PC3T, a computational framework to enrich molecules that induce desired cellular transitions, and PC3T was able to consistently enrich small molecules that had been experimentally validated in both bulk and single-cell datasets. We then predicted small molecule reprogramming of fibroblasts into hepatic progenitor-like cells (HPLCs). The converted cells exhibited epithelial cell-like morphology and HPLC-like gene expression pattern. Hepatic functions were also observed, such as glycogen storage and lipid accumulation. Finally, we collected and manually curated a cell state transition resource containing 224 time-course gene expression datasets and 153 cell types. Our framework, together with the data resource, is freely available at http://pc3t.idrug.net.cn/ . We believe that PC3T is a powerful tool to promote chemical-induced cell state transitions.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals
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