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Spatially resolved atlas of IPF fibroblastic foci identifies that PAK2 kinase activation is involved in fibrogenesis

GSE285246 Homo sapiens (human) Single-cell RNA-seq 12 samples Submitted 2025/08/11 Platform GPL28038Platform GPL20795
At a glance

Single-cell RNA-seq · human · 12 samples

What it is
Single-cell RNA-seqGene activity measured in thousands of individual cells, so cell types can be told apart. Read from the summary: GEO's own type field only says 'expression profiling by sequencing', so confirm it in the paper.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Samples
12 samples: 4 × Visium_JKPF3 vs 3 × Visium_JKPF2 vs 3 × scRNA_JKPF vs 2 × Visium_JKPF1Groups 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
Integrated spatial and single-cell transcriptomics reveal PAK kinase as a therapeutic target in fibroblastic foci and dense fibrosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosisThe European respiratory journal · 2025
Summary (written by the submitters)
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal interstitial lung disease characterized by progressive fibrosis of the lung parenchyma. To identify potential therapeutic targets for IPF, we conducted spatial transcriptomic analysis and single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). Our findings reveal that PAK plays a critical role in the immature fibroblast niche during fibrogenesis, highlighting its potential as a therapeutic target for the treatment of IPF.
Published in
Integrated spatial and single-cell transcriptomics reveal PAK kinase as a therapeutic target in fibroblastic foci and dense fibrosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Watanabe N, Yoshida M, Hirano Y et al. · The European respiratory journal 2025 · PMID 40675771 · doi:10.1183/13993003.00022-2025
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 GSE285246_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: 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 PRJNA1202105 and SRA study SRP553467. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
4 × Visium_JKPF3 vs 3 × Visium_JKPF2 vs 3 × scRNA_JKPF vs 2 × Visium_JKPF1

Supports a between-group comparison across 12 samples.

How we read this: 4 replicated groups read from 12 sample titles; they account for 12 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.

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