Cerebrospinal fluid-driven ependymal motile cilia defects are implicated in multiple sclerosis.
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- [1] § Materials and methods › Single-cell RNA sequencing bioinformatics ↔ Figure_1_scrnaseq_MAID_analysis.R, lines 123–203 · score 0.88 · LogNormalize, seurat_clusters, variable features, Raw, neighbour, resolution
- [2] § Materials and methods › RNA isolation and bulk RNA sequencing of ependymal cells from primary cultures ↔ cilia.r, lines 323–398 · score 0.69 · FindMarkers, DESeq2, GRCr8, Salmon, tximeta, Genome
- [3] § Results › Post-mortem tissue analysis of ependymal cells reveals cilia alterations in multiple sclerosis ↔ Figure_1_scrnaseq_MAID_analysis.R, lines 123–203 · score 0.51 · Stacked bar, UMAP, Violin, clusterProfiler, ependymal cell, patients
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- # Figure 1: Single-cell Analysis of Integrated Ventricles -----------------
- # 1. Setup ----------------------------------------------------------------
- # Load required libraries
- library(Seurat)
- library(dplyr)
- library(ggplot2)
- library(clustree)
- library(clusterProfiler)
- library(enrichplot)
- library(org.Hs.eg.db)
- library(AnnotationDbi)
- # Set working directory and random seed
- set.seed(1)
- # 2. Load Data ------------------------------------------------------------
- integrated_ventricles <- readRDS("MAID_Integrated_PV_Region_MS_vs_CTRL.RDS")
- # 3. Figure 1A: UMAP by CellType ------------------------------------------
- DimPlot(
- object = integrated_ventricles,
- reduction = "umap",
- label = TRUE,
- pt.size = 0.5,
- group.by = "CellType"
- )
- # 4. Figure 1B: Define & Plot CellGroup ----------------------------------
- ## 4.1. Define mapping from CellType → broader CellGroup
- cell_group_mapping <- c(
- ASTROCYTE = "Astrocytes",
- NEURONS_1 = "Neurons",
- NEURONS_2 = "Neurons",
- GABA_NEURONS = "Neurons",
- OLIGOS_1 = "Oligodendrocytes & OPCs",
- OLIGOS_2 = "Oligodendrocytes & OPCs",
- OLIGOS_3 = "Oligodendrocytes & OPCs",
- OPC = "Oligodendrocytes & OPCs",
- MACROPHAGE = "Immune Cells",
- B_CELL = "Immune Cells",
- CYTOTOXIC_T = "Immune Cells",
- IMMUNE_1 = "Immune Cells",
- IMMUNE_2 = "Immune Cells",
- IMMUNE_3 = "Immune Cells",
- IMMUNE_4 = "Immune Cells",
- IMMUNE_5 = "Immune Cells",
- IMMUNE_6 = "Immune Cells",
- EPENDYMAL = "Ependymal Cells",
- ENDOTHELIAL = "Vascular Cells",
- PERICYTE_SMOOTH_MUSCLE = "Vascular Cells"
- )
- ## 4.2. Assign CellGroup
- integrated_ventricles$CellType <- as.character(integrated_ventricles$CellType)
- integrated_ventricles$CellGroup <- unname(cell_group_mapping[integrated_ventricles$CellType])
- # Verify assignment
- table(integrated_ventricles$CellGroup)
- ## 4.3. UMAP with custom colors
- custom_colors <- c(
- "Astrocytes" = "#E41A1C",
- "Neurons" = "#377EB8",
- "Oligodendrocytes & OPCs" = "#4DAF4A",
- "Immune Cells" = "#984EA3",
- "Ependymal Cells" = "#FF7F00",
- "Vascular Cells" = "#FFFF33"
- )
- umap_plot <- DimPlot(
- object = integrated_ventricles,
- reduction = "umap",
- label = TRUE,
- pt.size = 0.5,
- group.by = "CellGroup"
- ) +
- scale_color_manual(values = custom_colors)
- # Save result
- ggsave(
- filename = "UMAP_CellGroup_CustomColors.png",
- plot = umap_plot,
- width = 8, height = 6, dpi = 300
- )
- # 5. Figure 1C: DotPlot of Marker Genes -----------------------------------
- features <- c(
- "AQP4", "SLC1A2", # Astrocytes
- "FOXJ1", "PIFO", # Ependymal
- "C1QA", "CD68", # Immune
- "SYT1", "SYNPR", # Neurons
- "CNP", "MOG", # Oligodendrocytes
- "PECAM1", "MCAM" # Vascular
- )
- DefaultAssay(integrated_ventricles) <- "RNA"
- dotplot <- DotPlot(
- object = integrated_ventricles,
- features = features,
- group.by = "CellGroup"
- ) +
- scale_color_gradient(low = "yellow", high = "red") +
- scale_size(range = c(2, 8)) +
- theme_minimal() +
- theme(
- axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, hjust = 1),
- axis.title = element_blank()
- ) +
- labs(color = "Avg. Expr.", size = "Pct. Expr.")
- print(dotplot)
- # 6. Figure 1D: CellGroup Proportions per Patient -------------------------
- ## 6.1. Summarize counts & proportions
- cell_counts <- [email hidden] %>%
- group_by(Patient, CellGroup) %>%
- summarise(Count = n(), .groups = "drop") %>%
- group_by(Patient) %>%
- mutate(Proportion = Count / sum(Count)) %>%
- ungroup()
- ## 6.2. Rename patients
- sample_mapping <- c(
- P251 = "HSP1", P252 = "ALS1", P257 = "ALS2", P261 = "ALS3",
- P253 = "MS1", P259 = "MS2", P276 = "MS3", P280 = "MS4"
- )
- cell_counts$Patient <- recode(cell_counts$Patient, !!!sample_mapping)
- ## 6.3. Stacked bar plot
- bar_plot <- ggplot(cell_counts, aes(x = Patient, y = Proportion, fill = CellGroup)) +
- geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
- scale_fill_manual(values = custom_colors) +
- theme_minimal(base_size = 20) +
- labs(
- title = "Proportion of Each Cell Group Per Patient",
- x = "Patient",
- y = "Proportion",
- fill = "Cell Group"
- ) +
- theme(
- axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, hjust = 1, size = 22),
- axis.text.y = element_text(size = 22),
- axis.title = element_text(size = 26, face = "bold"),
- legend.text = element_text(size = 22),
- legend.title= element_text(size = 26, face = "bold"),
- plot.title = element_text(size = 30, face = "bold", hjust = 0.5)
- )
- ggsave("CellGroup_Proportion_Per_Patient.tiff",
- plot = bar_plot,
- width = 10, height = 8, dpi = 300)
- # 7. Reclustering Ependymal Cells -----------------------------------------
- # 7.1. Create new Seurat object from raw counts
- raw_counts <- GetAssayData(integrated_ventricles, slot = "counts")
- new_obj <- CreateSeuratObject(counts = raw_counts)
- # 7.2. Transfer metadata
- meta_cols <- c("seurat_clusters", "CellType", "Patient", "Group")
- for (col in meta_cols) {
- new_obj[[col]] <- [email hidden][col, drop = FALSE][colnames(new_obj), ]
- }
- # 7.3. Subset to ependymal cells
- ependymal <- subset(new_obj, subset = CellType == "EPENDYMAL")
- # 7.4. Standard preprocessing & clustering
- ependymal <- ependymal %>%
- NormalizeData(norm.method = "LogNormalize", scale.factor = 1e4) %>%
- FindVariableFeatures(selection.method = "vst", nfeatures = 2000) %>%
- ScaleData(features = rownames(.)) %>%
- RunPCA(features = VariableFeatures(.)) %>%
- FindNeighbors(dims = 1:30) %>%
- FindClusters(resolution = 0.75) %>%
- RunUMAP(dims = 1:30)
- # 7.5. UMAP plots
- DimPlot(ependymal, reduction = "umap", label = TRUE, pt.size = 1, group.by = "Group")
- ggsave("ependymal_umap.png", width = 12, height = 8, dpi = 300)
- # 8. QC Violin Plots ------------------------------------------------------
- ## 8.1. Compute percent mito
- mito_genes <- grep("^MT-", rownames(ependymal), value = TRUE)
- ependymal$percent.mito <-
- Matrix::colSums(GetAssayData(ependymal, slot = "counts")[mito_genes, ]) /
- Matrix::colSums(GetAssayData(ependymal, slot = "counts")) * 100
- meta_data <- [email hidden]
- ## 8.2. Plotting function
- plot_violin <- function(df, var, label, file) {
- p <- ggplot(df, aes_string(x = "Sample", y = var, fill = "Sample")) +
- geom_violin(trim = FALSE) +
- geom_boxplot(width = 0.2, outlier.shape = NA, fill = "white", alpha = 0.7) +
- theme_minimal() +
- labs(title = paste(label, "Per Patient"), x = "Patient", y = label) +
- theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, hjust = 1)) +
- scale_fill_brewer(palette = "Set3")
- ggsave(file, plot = p, width = 8, height = 6, dpi = 300)
- }
- # Generate QC plots
- plot_violin(meta_data, "percent.mito", "Mitochondrial Percentage", "violin_mito_percentage.png")
- plot_violin(meta_data, "nCount_RNA", "UMI Count", "violin_UMI_count.png")
- plot_violin(meta_data, "nFeature_RNA", "nFeature RNA Count", "violin_nFeature_RNA.png")
Figure_1_scrnaseq_MAID_analysis.R at commit 010ea7c, under GPL-3.0 · at the source
Overview
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2B4
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada H3A 2B4
- Division of BioMedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St.John's, NL, Canada A1B 3V6
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada H3A 0C7
- Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A OC7
- Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 76, Sweden
- St.Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5B 1W8
- Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM) and Department of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada H2X 0A9
Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disorder of the CNS in which autoreactive immune cells migrate through a damaged blood–brain barrier, resulting in focal demyelinating lesions. Beyond focal lesions, there are also diffuse ‘surface-in’ gradients of pathology in MS, wherein damage is most severe directly adjacent to CSF-contacting surfaces, such as the subpial and periventricular areas. This observation suggests that toxic factors within MS CSF contribute to the emergence and/
We first conducted single-cell RNA sequencing of fresh human periventricular brain tissue containing ependymal cells from patients with MS and non-MS disease controls. We subsequently collected CSF from patients with MS and exposed cultured rodent ependymal cells to this CSF to evaluate the impact on ependymal ciliary function. To complement our direct evaluation of cilia in the context of MS, we also confirmed whether cilia were altered in an animal model of MS, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), and designed a novel transgenic animal model to evaluate the cellular and behavioural effect(s) of adult ependymal ciliary disruption.
Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of human ependymal cells in MS demonstrated large-scale dysregulation of ciliary genes, and in situ stains of MS brain tissue confirmed a loss of ependymal cilia. Exposure of ependymal cells to MS CSF led to transcriptional modification of ciliary gene and protein expression and reduced ciliary beating frequency. Likewise, analysis of ependymal cells in EAE demonstrated altered cilia gene and protein expression. We showed that IFNγ, which is elevated in MS CSF, could alter cilia protein expression and motility. Lastly, conditional knockout of Ccdc39 in ependymal cells of adult mice led to transient ventricular enlargement, increased periventricular microglial density and alterations in nesting behaviour.
These data suggest that motile cilia in ependymal cells are dysregulated in CNS autoimmunity. More importantly, they suggest that ependymal cilia disruption could play a role in periventricular pathology formation in MS and be associated with behavioural deficits underlying non-motor symptomatology.
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Bigotte, M., Groh, A. M. R., Afanasiev, E., Wong, V., Lancon, K., Yaqubi, M., Creeggan, F., Sinott, A., Pei, J., Moore, C. S., Harroud, A., Schneider, R., Séguéla, P., Charabati, M., Tea, F., Fournier, A. P., Wang, Y. C., Ragoussis, J., Prat, A., . . . Stratton, J. A. (2026). Cerebrospinal fluid-driven ependymal motile cilia defects are implicated in multiple sclerosis. Brain : a journal of neurology, 149(8), 2654-2667. https://
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@article{bigotte2026cere
author = {Bigotte, Maxime and Groh, Adam M R and Afanasiev, Elia and Wong, Vincent and Lancon, Kevin and Yaqubi, Moein and Creeggan, Finn and Sinott, Airton and Pei, Junze and Moore, Craig S and Harroud, Adil and Schneider, Raphael and Séguéla, Philippe and Charabati, Marc and Tea, Fiona and Fournier, Antoine P and Wang, Yu Chang and Ragoussis, Jiannis and Prat, Alexandre and Thebault, Simon and Zandee, Stephanie and Stratton, Jo Anne},
title = {{Cerebrospinal fluid-driven ependymal motile cilia defects are implicated in multiple sclerosis}},
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publisher = {Oxford University Press},
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pmcid = {PMC13431679}
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