Single-cell RNA-seq of of dermal fibroblasts using microfluidic droplet capture (unstimulated cells)

The innate immune response - the expression programme that is initiated once a pathogen is sensed - is known to be variable among responding cells, as well as to rapidly evolve in the course of mammal evolution. To study the transcriptional divergence and cell-to-cell variability of this response, we stimulated dermal fibroblast cells from two primates (human and macaque) and two rodents (mouse and rat) with dsRNA - a mimic of viral RNA that elicits a rapid innate immune response. Subsequently, we profiled the response using bulk RNA-seq, scRNA-seq and ChIP-seq across the four species and across different time points. This experiment contains data of dermal fibroblasts from 3 human individuals, unstimulated, sequenced by 10X Genomics technology. Corresponding data from stimulated cells are found under ArrayExpress accession E-MTAB-5989.