Fig. 2. MIRI as a representative PANoptosis-driven disease model.
A Schematic of ischemic zone (IZ), remote zone (RZ), and border zone (BZ) in human acute myocardial infarction. The heart element in the image was sourced from BioRender (Created in BioRender. xu, L. (2026) https://BioRender.com/9kka4p3). B UMAP visualization of cell distribution (left) and annotated cell types (right) in the control (n = 4) versus IZ (n = 11) groups. C Cardiomyocyte subpopulation quantification (left) and UMAP-based clustering (right) in the control and IZ groups. D, E UMAP projection (D) and box plots (E) showing PANoptosis activation across cardiac cell types. (The exact n in E = [left to right] 20, 84 cells; 17326, 3506 cells; 6231, 6969 cells; 9468, 12187 cells; 3386, 7142 cells; 3039, 2286 cells; 583, 254 cells; 531, 1138 cells). The minima, maxima, mean, median, bounds, whiskers, and percentile information were provided in the Source Data file. Exact P-values from left to right: 2.39E-265, 1.55E-300, 1.05E-35, 4.09E-05, 2.21E-06, 0.0002, 1.9E-11. F Violin plots comparing PANoptosis-related gene expression (AIM2, ZBP1, RIPK1, Pyrin, NLRP12, NLRP3, MLKL, GSDMD, RIPK3, caspase 3, caspase 1, and caspase 8) in total cells. (n = 40706 cells [control], 33688 cells [IZ]). The minima, maxima, mean, median, bounds, whiskers, and percentile information were provided in the Source Data file. Exact P-values from left to right (AIM2 to caspase 8): 0.2752, 0.0002, 0, 0.0854, 6.67E-09, 7.19E-82, 3.59E-37, 0.0709, 0.0269, 2.29E-280, 2.45E-30, 4.07E-09. G, H Cardiomyocyte-specific UMAP (G) and quantitative PANoptosis levels (H) of the control and IZ groups. (The exact n in H = [left to right] 6904 cells, 0; 5281 cells, 0; 1191, 3346 cells; 3192, 80 cells; 758, 80 cells). The minima, maxima, mean, median, bounds, whiskers, and percentile information were provided in the Source Data file. Exact P-values from left to right: 4.01E-05, 0.0021. I Proportional representation of cardiomyocyte subpopulations. J, K Heatmap depicting activation patterns of apoptosis/PANoptosis/pyroptosis/necroptosis (J) and PANoptosis-related genes (K) across cardiomyocyte subtypes. Significance: wilcox.test, a two-sided test; *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001; ns: no significant difference (P > 0.05). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
