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Inference of secreted protein signaling activities in intercellular communication

GSE291028 Mus musculus (mouse) Single-cell RNA-seq 10 samples Submitted 2025/03/04 Platform GPL24247
At a glance

Single-cell RNA-seq · mouse · 10 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
Mus musculus (mouse)
Samples
10 samples: 2 × Ly86_1 vs 2 × Vector_1 vs 2 × Vector_2Groups 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.
Summary (written by the submitters)
The human genome encodes ~1,900 secreted proteins, many of which mediate intercellular communication. Secreted proteins do not act cell-autonomously, limiting systematic approaches to characterize their functions. Here we introduce SecAct (Secreted Activity, https://secact.ccr.cancer.gov ), a computational framework that infers the signaling activities of 1,170 human secreted proteins from spatial, single-cell and bulk transcriptomic data.
Read the full summary ↓
The inference model harnesses precomputed intercellular signaling signatures trained on 1,258 spatial transcriptomics samples spanning 37 cancer types. Transcriptomics data from antisecreted protein therapies validate SecAct's accuracy in predicting the repression of secreted protein activity following treatment. For spatial and single-cell transcriptomics data, SecAct provides interactive modules for analyzing secreted protein-mediated cell-cell communication. Applying SecAct to 54 cancer immunotherapy cohorts comprising 5,174 patients, we identified secreted proteins associated with tumor immunity. In vivo experiments validated lymphocyte antigen 86 (LY86), whose function in cancer was previously unknown, as an antitumor regulator.
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 GSE291028_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 PRJNA1231421 and SRA study SRP567916. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
2 × Ly86_1 vs 2 × Vector_1 vs 2 × Vector_2

Supports a between-group comparison across 6 samples.

How we read this: 3 replicated groups read from 10 sample titles; they account for 6 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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