Single-cell RNA sequencing of mouse primary B cells to investigate subpopulation markers
The project aims at linking functionality to metabolic fluxes of mouse primary B cells, potentially correlating antibody secretion rates with metabolic differences in subpopulations of B cells. In previous experiments, subpopulations of primary B cells with different phenotypes were observed. Therefore, the next step is to further characterize these subpopulations of B cells via single-cell RNA sequencing so that we gain insight about cell characteristics and individual gene markers, and their potential biological role. Our hypothesis is that these cells present different expression profiles of key genes and/or are relevant in different immune-related pathways.