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Latent Epigenetic Programs in Müller Glia Contribute to Stress, Injury, and Disease Response in the Retina [scRNA-seq]

GSE272074 Homo sapiens (human) Single-cell RNA-seq 48 samples Submitted 2024/12/01 Platform GPL21103Platform GPL24247Platform GPL24676
At a glance

Single-cell RNA-seq · human · 48 samples

What it is
Single-cell RNA-seqGene activity measured in thousands of individual cells, so cell types can be told apart.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Samples
48 samples: 8 conditions, mostly in duplicateGroups 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
Latent epigenetic programs in Müller glia contribute to stress and disease response in the retinaDevelopmental cell · 2025
Summary (written by the submitters)
Previous studies have demonstrated the dynamic changes in chromatin structure during retinal development that correlate with changes in gene expression. However, a major limitation of those prior studies was the lack of cellular resolution. Here, we integrate single-cell (sc) RNA-seq and scATAC-seq with bulk retinal data sets to identify cell type–specific changes in the chromatin structure during development.
Read the full summary ↓
Although most genes’ promoter activity is strongly correlated with chromatin accessibility, we discovered several hundred genes that were transcriptionally silent but had accessible chromatin at their promoters. Most of those silent/accessible gene promoters were in the Müller glial cells. The Müller cells are radial glia of the retina and perform a variety of essential functions to maintain retinal homeostasis and respond to stress, injury, or disease. The silent/accessible genes in Müller glia are enriched in pathways related to inflammation, angiogenesis, and other types of cell-cell signaling and were rapidly activated when we tested 15 different physiologically relevant conditions to mimic retinal stress, injury, or disease in human and murine retinae. We refer to these as “pliancy genes” because they allow the Müller glia to rapidly change their gene expression and cellular state in response to different types of retinal insults. The Müller glial cell pliancy program is established during development, and we demonstrate that pliancy genes are necessary and sufficient for regulating inflammation in the murine retina in vivo. In zebrafish, Müller glia can de-differentiate and form retinal progenitor cells that replace lost neurons. The pro-inflammatory pliancy gene cascade is not activated in zebrafish Müller glia following injury, and we propose a model in which species-specific pliancy programs underly the differential response to retinal damage in species that can regenerate retinal neurons (zebrafish) versus those that cannot (humans and mice).
Published in
Latent epigenetic programs in Müller glia contribute to stress and disease response in the retina
Norrie JL, Lupo MS, Little DR et al. · Developmental cell 2025 · PMID 39753128 · doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2024.12.014
This dataset
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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.

Series matrix ↓
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 GSE272074_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

All supplementary files ↗ Whole study · RAW.tar ↓
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.

Raw reads on ENA ↗

What the files usually look like: Single-cell studies usually ship their counts as 10x files (matrix.mtx, barcodes.tsv, features.tsv), an .h5 file, or an .rds / .h5ad object that Seurat or Scanpy can open. Look for those among the supplementary files.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1103805 and SRA study SRP503612. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

NCBI GEO page ↗ Paper (PMID 39753128) ↗
Study design
8 conditions, mostly in duplicate
M_Control ×8 H_Wildtype ×5 M_WT Retina ×3 H_Control ×2 M_MeOH ×2 M_Low Oxygen ×2 M_IFN ×2 M_pH 7 ×2 +22 more

Supports a between-group comparison across 26 samples.

How we read this: 8 replicated groups read from 48 sample titles; they account for 26 of them. 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

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