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    An Immune Cell Signature of Bacterial Sepsis
    (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-02-17) Reyes, Miguel; Filbin, Michael; Bhattacharyya, Roby; Billman, Kianna; Eisenhaure, Thomas; Hung, Deborah; Levy, Bruce; Baron, Rebecca; Blainey, Paul; Goldberg, Marcia; Hacohen, Nir
    Dysregulation of the immune response to bacterial infection can lead to sepsis, a condition with high mortality. Multiple whole-blood gene expression studies have defined sepsis-associated molecular signatures but did not resolve changes in transcriptional states of specific cell types. Here, we used single-cell RNA sequencing to profile the blood of patients with sepsis (n = 29) across three clinical cohorts with corresponding controls (n = 36). We profiled total peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs, 106,545 cells) and dendritic cells (19,806 cells) across all patients and, based on clustering of their gene expression profiles, defined 16 immune cell states. We identified a unique CD14+ monocyte state that is expanded in septic patients and validated its power in discriminating septic patients from controls using public transcriptomic data from patients of different disease etiologies and multiple geographic locations (18 cohorts, n = 1,213 patients). We identified a panel of surface markers for isolation and quantification of the monocyte state, characterized its epigenomic and functional phenotypes, and propose a model for its induction from human bone marrow. This study demonstrates the utility of single cell genomics in discovering disease-associated cytologic signatures and provides insight into the cellular basis of immune dysregulation in bacterial sepsis.