Immune challenged SC-islets first response profiled by single cell transcription analysis after co-culture with human allogeneic PBMCs [scRNA-seq_invitro]

We performed an in vitro co-culture of allogeneic PBMCs and SC-islet clusters. SC-islet clusters were enriched for β cells (using CD49A magnetic sorting; SC-α still remain at lower numbers) (Veres et al., 2019), dissociated and reaggregated to obtain a more uniform cell count between wells. SC-islets were co-cultured with human allogeneic PBMCs for 24 or 48 hours. As controls [time(t)=0], SC-islets remained in culture without PBMC addition. These samples, in addition to PBMCs alone (t=0), were used for scRNA-seq (Figure 2A). Comparing expression datasets from PBMC co-cultured with SC-islets, to SC-islets alone