Integrating single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to elucidate intercellular tissue dynamics

SK Longo, MG Guo, AL Ji, PA Khavari - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) identifies cell subpopulations within tissue but
does not capture their spatial distribution nor reveal local networks of intercellular …

[HTML][HTML] Multimodal analysis of composition and spatial architecture in human squamous cell carcinoma

…, K Thrane, S Jiang, DL Reynolds, RM Meyers, MG Guo… - Cell, 2020 - Elsevier
To define the cellular composition and architecture of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC),
we combined single-cell RNA sequencing with spatial transcriptomics and …

Integrative analyses highlight functional regulatory variants associated with neuropsychiatric diseases

MG Guo, DL Reynolds, CE Ang, Y Liu, Y Zhao… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Noncoding variants of presumed regulatory function contribute to the heritability of
neuropsychiatric disease. A total of 2,221 noncoding variants connected to risk for ten …

[HTML][HTML] The proximal proteome of 17 SARS-CoV-2 proteins links to disrupted antiviral signaling and host translation

…, A Beck, L Donohue, I Ferguson, MG Guo… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Viral proteins localize within subcellular compartments to subvert host machinery and
promote pathogenesis. To study SARS-CoV-2 biology, we generated an atlas of 2422 human …

Challenges and opportunities in network-based solutions for biological questions

MG Guo, DN Sosa, RB Altman - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Network biology is useful for modeling complex biological phenomena; it has attracted
attention with the advent of novel graph-based machine learning methods. However, biological …

Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Human Skin Delineates Intercellular Communication and Pathogenic Cells

…, MCG Winge, H Wang, L Chen, MG Guo… - Journal of Investigative …, 2023 - Elsevier
Epidermal homeostasis is governed by a balance between keratinocyte proliferation and
differentiation with contributions from cell–cell interactions, but conserved or divergent …

[PDF][PDF] A cis-regulatory lexicon of DNA motif combinations mediating cell-type-specific gene regulation

LKH Donohue, MG Guo, Y Zhao, N Jung, RT Bussat… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Gene expression is controlled by transcription factors (TFs) that bind cognate DNA motif
sequences in cis-regulatory elements (CREs). The combinations of DNA motifs acting within …

Glucose modulates transcription factor dimerization to enable tissue differentiation

…, Y Zhao, G Gowrishankar, L Donohue, MG Guo… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Glucose is a universal energy currency for living organisms, however, its non-energetic
functions in processes such as differentiation are undefined. In epidermis, differentiating cells …

Targeting Wnt-driven cancer through the inhibition of Porcupine by LGK974

…, J Cheng, C Kowal, V Phung, G Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Wnt signaling is one of the key oncogenic pathways in multiple cancers, and targeting this
pathway is an attractive therapeutic approach. However, therapeutic success has been limited …

[PDF][PDF] Mutations in cardiac T-box factor gene TBX20 are associated with diverse cardiac pathologies, including defects of septation and valvulogenesis and …

…, ML Castro, TL Butler, C Hyun, G Guo… - The American Journal of …, 2007 - cell.com
The T-box family transcription factor gene TBX20 acts in a conserved regulatory network,
guiding heart formation and patterning in diverse species. Mouse Tbx20 is expressed in …