(A) Flow cytometry showing thymic phycoerythrin (PE)-conjugated mouse
(m)CD1d tetramer+ cells before (left panel) and after (center panel)
isolation with magnetic beads and FACS. Purity was confirmed by co-staining with
allophycocyanin (APC)-conjugated PBS57-loaded or unloaded mCD1d tetramers (right
panel).
(B) UMAP visualization of iNKT thymocyte clusters identified using the
graph-based Louvain algorithm at a resolution of 0.5.
(C) Dot plot showing the Z-scored mean expression of
selected genes encoding key transcription factors and thymocyte differentiation
markers for each cluster.
(D) Heatmap showing row-scaled mean expression of the five highest
differentially expressed transcription factors per cluster.
(E) Integrative analysis of iNKT cells and whole thymocytes (excluding B
cells) from the same pigs. Asterisks indicate non-annotated genes (described in
Table S13).