Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-3-2020

Keywords

JMG

JAX Source

Cell Rep 2020 Mar 3; 30(9):3149-3163.e6

Volume

30

Issue

9

First Page

3149

Last Page

3163

ISSN

2211-1247

PMID

32130914

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.02.008

Grant

CA034196,JAX Director’s Innovation Fund, the British Heart Foundation, and the Leducq Foundation Transatlantic Network of Excellence in Cardiac Research.

Abstract

Cardiac ischemia leads to the loss of myocardial tissue and the activation of a repair process that culminates in the formation of a scar whose structural characteristics dictate propensity to favorable healing or detrimental cardiac wall rupture. To elucidate the cellular processes underlying scar formation, here we perform unbiased single-cell mRNA sequencing of interstitial cells isolated from infarcted mouse hearts carrying a genetic tracer that labels epicardial-derived cells. Sixteen interstitial cell clusters are revealed, five of which were of epicardial origin. Focusing on stromal cells, we define 11 sub-clusters, including diverse cell states of epicardial- and endocardial-derived fibroblasts. Comparing transcript profiles from post-infarction hearts in C57BL/6J and 129S1/SvImJ inbred mice, which displays a marked divergence in the frequency of cardiac rupture, uncovers an early increase in activated myofibroblasts, enhanced collagen deposition, and persistent acute phase response in 129S1/SvImJ mouse hearts, defining a crucial time window of pathological remodeling that predicts disease outcome.

Comments

We thank Dr. Susanne Sattler for insightful comments and Maureen Ekwebelem, intern with the Jackson Laboratory summer student program. We acknowledge the use of JAX Flow Cytometry, Microscopy, Single Cell Sequencing, and Computational Cores.

This article is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license

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