Mapping disease regulatory circuits at cell-type resolution from single-cell multiomics data

Xi Chen, Yuan Wang, Antonio Cappuccio, Wan Sze Cheng, Frederique Ruf Zamojski, Venugopalan D. Nair, Clare M. Miller, Aliza B. Rubenstein, German Nudelman, Alicja Tadych, Chandra L. Theesfeld, Alexandria Vornholt, Mary Catherine George, Felicia Ruffin, Michael Dagher, Daniel G. Chawla, Alessandra Soares-Schanoski, Rachel R. Spurbeck, Lishomwa C. Ndhlovu, Robert SebraSteven H. Kleinstein, Andrew G. Letizia, Irene Ramos, Vance G. Fowler, Christopher W. Woods, Elena Zaslavsky, Olga G. Troyanskaya, Stuart C. Sealfon

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Abstract

Resolving chromatin-remodeling-linked gene expression changes at cell-type resolution is important for understanding disease states. Here we describe MAGICAL (Multiome Accessibility Gene Integration Calling and Looping), a hierarchical Bayesian approach that leverages paired single-cell RNA sequencing and single-cell transposase-accessible chromatin sequencing from different conditions to map disease-associated transcription factors, chromatin sites, and genes as regulatory circuits. By simultaneously modeling signal variation across cells and conditions in both omics data types, MAGICAL achieved high accuracy on circuit inference. We applied MAGICAL to study Staphylococcus aureus sepsis from peripheral blood mononuclear single-cell data that we generated from subjects with bloodstream infection and uninfected controls. MAGICAL identified sepsis-associated regulatory circuits predominantly in CD14 monocytes, known to be activated by bacterial sepsis. We addressed the challenging problem of distinguishing host regulatory circuit responses to methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus infections. Although differential expression analysis failed to show predictive value, MAGICAL identified epigenetic circuit biomarkers that distinguished methicillin-resistant from methicillin-susceptible S. aureus infections.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)644-657
Number of pages14
JournalNature Computational Science
Volume3
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2023

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