Figure 5.
Molecular characterization of interactions between kidney cells and kidney immune cells. (A) Cell-to-cell crosstalk networks between kidney cells in CTRL, HU-IgAN, NGC, and LGC groups. (B) Bubble chart showing dysregulated cell-type specific interactions between mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) and podocytes (PODs) or parietal epithelial cells (PECs) and podocytes (PODs) in the CTRL, HU-IgAN, NGC, and LGC group. (C) 8 cell subtypes were visualized by UMAP plotting through re-clustering analysis of kidney immune cells. (D) Violin plots showing marker genes of 8 kidney immune cell subtypes. (E) Developmental tree analysis showed the relationship between different kidney immune cells. (F) Cell trajectory map of lymphocytes showing the pseudo-time (Top). Ordering single cells along a cell conversion trajectory using Monocle 2. Three states were identified based on their distribution in the cell trajectory map (Bottom). (G) Heatmap: each column represents one cell and each row represents the expression of one gene. Cells are ordered by Monocle-based pseudotime analysis and the color represents expression levels. (H) The GO enrichment function items of cluster1-3 in (G) are shown by the bubble diagram.
