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Temporal and Context-Dependent Requirements for the Transcription Factor Foxp3 in Regulatory T Cell Development and Maintenance [transfer organ scRNA-seq]

GSE302578 Mus musculus (mouse) Single-cell RNA-seq 1 samples Submitted 2025/08/28 Platform GPL24247

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Single-cell RNA-seq · mouse · 1 samples

What it is: Single-cell RNA-seqGene activity measured in thousands of individual cells, so cell types can be told apart.
Organism: Mus musculus (mouse)
Samples: 1 samples
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: Temporal and context-dependent requirements for the transcription factor Foxp3 expression in regulatory T cellsNature immunology · 2025

Summary (written by the submitters)

Regulatory T (Treg) cells, characterized by expression of the lineage-defining transcription factor Foxp3, are critical gatekeepers of immune homeostasis. While Foxp3’s essential role in Treg cell development is well established, the precise mechanisms by which Foxp3 governs the Treg-specific transcriptional network remain incompletely understood.

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Here, we employed a novel chemogenetic model that enables inducible, time-controlled degradation of Foxp3 protein in vivo to dissect its stage-specific functions. We show that Foxp3 is indispensable for the establishment of the Treg transcriptional program and the acquisition of suppressive function during thymic differentiation and in newly generated peripheral Treg cells. In contrast, degradation of Foxp3 in fully differentiated, mature Treg cells resulted in surprisingly minimal transcriptional changes and largely preserved suppressive capacity, affecting only a small subset of genes highly enriched for direct Foxp3 targets. Strikingly, intratumoral Treg cells were uniquely sensitive to Foxp3 loss, leading to impaired suppressive function and enhanced tumor rejection. These findings uncover a differential, context-dependent requirement for Foxp3 across Treg cell ontogeny, highlighting a distinct, largely indirect mechanism by which Foxp3 establishes — and to a more limited extent maintains — Treg identity and function.

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Temporal and context-dependent requirements for the transcription factor Foxp3 expression in regulatory T cells

Hu W, Dolsten GA, Wang EY et al. · Nature immunology 2025 · PMID 41062655 · doi:10.1038/s41590-025-02295-4

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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 ↓

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Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE302578_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 PRJNA1291219 and SRA study SRP600685. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

NCBI GEO page ↗ Paper (PMID 41062655) ↗

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