Ramon Massoni-Badosa, Sergio Aguilar-Fernández, Juan C Nieto, Paula Soler-Vila, Marc Elosua-Bayes, Domenica Marchese, Marta Kulis, Amaia Vilas-Zornoza, Marco Matteo Bühler, Sonal Rashmi, Clara Alsinet, Ginevra Caratù, Catia Moutinho, Sara Ruiz, Patricia Lorden, Giulia Lunazzi, Dolors Colomer, Gerard Frigola, Will Blevins, Lucia Romero-Rivero, Víctor Jiménez-Martínez, Anna Vidal, Judith Mateos-Jaimez, Alba Maiques-Diaz, Sara Ovejero, Jérôme Moreaux, Sara Palomino, David Gomez-Cabrero, Xabier Agirre, Marc A Weniger, Hamish W King, Lucy C Garner, Federico Marini, Francisco Javier Cervera-Paz, Peter M Baptista, Isabel Vilaseca, Cecilia Rosales, Silvia Ruiz-Gaspà, Benjamin Talks, Keval Sidhpura, Anna Pascual-Reguant, Anja E Hauser, Muzlifah Haniffa, Felipe Prosper, Ralf Küppers, Ivo Glynne Gut, Elias Campo, José Ignacio Martin-Subero, Holger Heyn
Palatine tonsils are secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs) representing the first line of immunological defense against inhaled or ingested pathogens. We generated an atlas of the human tonsil composed of >556,000 cells profiled across five different data modalities, including single-cell transcriptome, epigenome, proteome, and immune repertoire sequencing, as well as spatial transcriptomics. This census identified 121 cell types and states, defined developmental trajectories, and enabled an understanding of the functional units of the tonsil...
February 13, 2024: Immunity