Single cell transcriptomic landscape of diabetic foot ulcers

NewsBot · Jan 17, 2022

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Single cell transcriptomic landscape of diabetic foot ulcers
Georgios Theocharidis et al
Nat Commun. 2022 Jan 10;13(1):181

Diabetic foot ulceration (DFU) is a devastating complication of diabetes whose pathogenesis remains incompletely understood. Here, we profile 174,962 single cells from the foot, forearm, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells using single-cell RNA sequencing. Our analysis shows enrichment of a unique population of fibroblasts overexpressing MMP1, MMP3, MMP11, HIF1A, CHI3L1, and TNFAIP6 and increased M1 macrophage polarization in the DFU patients with healing wounds. Further, analysis of spatially separated samples from the same patient and spatial transcriptomics reveal preferential localization of these healing associated fibroblasts toward the wound bed as compared to the wound edge or unwounded skin. Spatial transcriptomics also validates our findings of higher abundance of M1 macrophages in healers and M2 macrophages in non-healers. Our analysis provides deep insights into the wound healing microenvironment, identifying cell types that could be critical in promoting DFU healing, and may inform novel therapeutic approaches for DFU treatment.
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NewsBot · Oct 21, 2022

Future Directions in Research in Transcriptomics in the Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Brandon J Sumpio et al
Adv Ther. 2022 Oct 20

Diabetic foot ulcers are a health crisis that affect millions of individuals worldwide. Current standard of care involves diligent wound care with adjunctive antibiotics and surgical debridement. However, despite this, the majority will still become infected and fail to heal. Recent efforts using bioengineered skin initially appeared promising, but randomized clinical trials have disappointed. Scientists have now begun to understand that the normal wound healing physiology does not apply to diabetic foot ulcers as they maintain a chronic state of inflammation and fail to progress in a linear pathway. Using transcriptomics, research over the past decade has started identifying master genes and protein pathways that are dysregulated in patients with diabetes. This review paper discusses those genes involved and how novel advancements are using this information to create new biologically based compounds to accelerate wound healing in patients with diabetic foot ulcers.
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