Chemical reprogramming of melanocytes to skeletal muscle cells

We identify a combination of small molecules to be able to transdifferentiate dermal cells to muscle cells. To characterize the cellular diversity of the neonatal dermal we performed scRNA-seq on mononuclear cell suspensions obtained from the neonatal dermal. Following normalization and quality control of scRNA-seq data, we captured 40537 cells with an average of 5755 genes expressed per cell. We charted the entire course of skin-to-muscle chemical reprogramming by single cell RNA-sequencing to determine the source cells in CD73- cells from skin with the potential to be transdifferentiated to muscle cells .We found that melanocytes could be chemically reprogrammed to myogenic lineage cells. Overall design: Single cell RNA profiles from neonatal CD73- dermal cells treated by small molecules