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. 2020 Oct 20;11:5067. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18784-z

Fig. 1. GATA6 is expressed in the human upper pilosebaceous unit.

Fig. 1

a Schematic of the pilosebaceous unit indicating the upper region, consisting of interfollicular epidermis (IFE), infundibulum (INF), junctional zone (JZ), sebaceous duct (SD), and sebaceous gland (SG), then the isthmus (IST) and the lower region of the hair follicle (HF) comprising the bulge (Bu), hair shaft (HS), inner root sheath (IRS), and outer root sheath (ORS). The lower right panel shows the structure and differentiation of the human SG. be Immunolabelling for GATA6 (be) and ITGα6 (b), IVL (c), FASN (d) and KRT7 (e), with DAPI counterstain of back skin sections from a 60 year old male. Middle and right panels in b are higher magnification views of the left panel section. Yellow asterisks show basal GATA6+ cells. Scale bar: 100 μm, except in b right panels: 25 μm. Data are representative of two independent experiments. f 2D Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) visualisation of single cells isolated from healthy human scalp epidermis and adnexa29 coloured by Seurat cluster. g GATA6 expression levels, as log10 Transcripts Per Million (TPM), across the 24 different clusters. GATA6 is mainly expressed in cluster 22. h Differentially expressed genes (DEG) of cluster 22. Only DEG with log2FC > 0.2 or < −0.2 are shown. i Intersection of the 250 most upregulated DEG of cluster 22 identified in scalp epidermis within cell populations identified by Cheng et al.29 HR-WNTI stands for High Resolution-WNT Inhibitory cluster and UHF for upper hair follicle cluster. j GO enrichment analysis of the 250 most upregulated DEG of cluster 22.