{"doi":"10.1101/2022.10.13.512162","title":"Single-cell Landscape Analysis Unravels Molecular Programming of the Human B Cell Compartment in Chronic GVHD","abstract":"Alloreactivity can drive autoimmune syndromes. After allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT) chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD), a B cell-mediated autoimmune-like syndrome, commonly occurs. Because donor-derived B cells continually develop under selective pressure from host alloantigens, aberrant B Cell Receptor (BCR)-activation and IgG production can emerge and contribute to cGVHD pathobiology. To better understand molecular programing of B cells under selective pressure of alloantigens, we performed scRNA-Seq analysis on high numbers of purified B cells from allo-HCT patients. An unsupervised analysis revealed 10 clusters, distinguishable by signature genes for maturation, activation and memory. We found striking transcriptional differences in the memory B cell compartment after allo-HCT compared to healthy or infected individuals. To identify intrinsic properties when B-cell tolerance is lost after allo-HCT, we then assessed clusters for differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between patients with vs. without autoimmune-like manifestations (Active cGVHD vs. No cGVHD, respectively). DEGs were found in Active cGVHD in both naive and BCR-activated clusters, suggesting functional diversity. Some DEGs were also differentially expressed across most clusters, suggesting common molecular programs that may promote B cell plasticity. Our study of human allo-HCT and cGVHD provides new understanding of B-cell memory in the face of chronic alloantigen stimulation.","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2022,"id":312401,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9511,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":911658,"name":"Jiyuan Fang","orcid":"0000-0002-5004-4138","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":491686,"name":"Dadong Zhang","orcid":"0000-0002-2084-3449","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1009848,"name":"Marissa R. 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