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Unravelling the transcriptome of the human tuberculosis lesion and its clinical implications

GSE184537 Homo sapiens (human) RNA-seq (gene expression) 48 samples Submitted 2025/05/02 Platform GPL20301
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · human · 48 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Samples
48 samples: 48 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groupsGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
Unravelling the transcriptome of the human tuberculosis lesion and its clinical implicationsNature communications · 2025
Summary (written by the submitters)
The granuloma is a complex structure, contributing to the overall spectrum of tuberculosis (TB). We characterised 44 fresh human pulmonary TB lesion samples from 13 patients (drug-sensitive and multi-drug resistant TB) undergoing therapeutic surgery using RNA-Sequencing. We confirmed a clear separation between the granuloma and adjacent non-lesional tissue, with the granuloma samples consistently displaying an increased inflammatory profile despite heterogeneity.
Read the full summary ↓
Using weighted correlation network analysis, we identified 17 transcriptional modules associated with granulomata and demonstrated a gradient of immune-related transcript abundance according to the granuloma’s spatial organization. Furthermore, we associated the modular transcriptional signature of the TB granuloma with clinical surrogates of treatment efficacy and TB severity. We show that in patients with severe disease, the IFN/cytokine signalling and neutrophil degranulation modules were overabundant, while tissue organization and metabolism modules were under-represented. Our findings provide evidence of a relationship between clinical parameters, treatment response and immune signatures at the infection site.
Published in
Unravelling the transcriptome of the human tuberculosis lesion and its clinical implications
Fonseca KL, Lozano JJ, Despuig A et al. · Nature communications 2025 · PMID 40447570 · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-60255-w
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE184537_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA764935 and SRA study SRP338081. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
48 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groups

Any grouping that defines a comparison lives in the sample characteristics, which GEO records separately from the titles.

How we read this: Read from 48 sample titles: 48 distinct titles with little repetition. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

Samples in this study

+ 8 more — browse all 48 samples with per-sample file links →

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