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Integrated single-cell multi-omics analysis identifies fibroblast-like smooth muscle cells as a key driving phenotypic switching during aortic aneurysm progression

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Jianlin Zhang
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Wenbo Zhao *
DOI:10.1016/j.yjmcc.2026.05.006delete
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• Single-cell multi-omics reveals distinct smooth muscle cell heterogeneity in human aortic aneurysm. • Fibroblast-like SMCs expand during aneurysm progression and act as a progenitor-like population. • Fibroblast-like SMCs exhibit enhanced glycolysis and increased histone lactylation. • KAT5 links metabolic reprogramming to SMC stemness via the Wnt/KLF4 pathway. • A metabolism–epigenetic axis drives smooth muscle cell phenotypic switching in aneurysm progression.
Keywords:
smooth muscle cells
single-cell multi-omics
phenotypic switching
aortic aneurysm
metabolic reprogramming

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Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
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shandong university
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