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Add CD14-negative phenotype to human myeloid and plasmacytoid dendritic cells

Open Copilot opened this issue 2 months ago • 5 comments

Standard flow cytometry gating strategies consistently define human myeloid and plasmacytoid dendritic cells as CD14-negative to distinguish them from monocytes. This PR adds the CD14-negative phenotype to CL_0001057 and CL_0001058 per OMIP references provided.

Changes

CL_0001057 (myeloid dendritic cell, human):

  • Added logical axiom: lacks_plasma_membrane_part PR_000001889 (CD14)
  • Updated definition: "HLA-DRA-positive and CD14-negative"
  • Added references: PMID:34260151, 36470845, 37254600, 38343094, 40095400

CL_0001058 (plasmacytoid dendritic cell, human):

  • Added logical axiom: lacks_plasma_membrane_part PR_000001889 (CD14)
  • Updated definition: "HLA-DRA-positive, CD123-positive, CD11c-negative, and CD14-negative"
  • Added references: PMID:34260151, 36470845, 37254600, 38343094, 40095400

Scope

Per @Caroline-99's comment, CL_0001056 (general dendritic cell, human) is intentionally unchanged as tissue-specific DC subsets may express CD14.

Note

The correct PRO ID for "CD14 molecule" (PR_000001889) was verified using the Ontology Lookup Service (OLS).

Original prompt

This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>[Class hierarchy] Add "CD14 lacks" to human dendritic cell terms</issue_title> <issue_description>CL term CL_0001057 — myeloid dendritic cell, human CL_0001058 — plasmacytoid dendritic cell, human

Suggested revision of class hierarchy Add: lacks expression of CD14 Although there were previous attempts to annotate DCs with CD14-negative expression (Issue #123, #125, #127), these were unfortunately closed without resolution.

textual def please add in the textual def that this cell is CD14-negative.

References Add these references but do not replace exisiting references

Relevant OMIP references demonstrating standard gating strategy:

  1. OMIP-77
  2. OMIP-87
  3. OMIP-94
  4. OMIP-101
  5. OMIP-112

These human dendritic cell populations are consistently defined as CD14-negative in flow cytometry gating strategies. Although some tissue-specific DC subsets (e.g., dermal DCs) may express CD14, the general population of human DCs is gated as CD14⁻ to distinguish them from monocytes.

Thank you for your consideration. </issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

@Caroline-99 @addiehl could you please check this out ? I agree with adding lack CD14 expression to "[CL_0001057](http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0001057) — myeloid dendritic cell, human and [CL_0001058](http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0001058) — plasmacytoid dendritic cell, human". However, I am not sure about adding it to the general human term [CL_0001056](http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0001056) — dendritic cell, human as there are some human dendritic cells that do express CD14 (PMID: [23621371](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23621371/), [PMID: 34279540](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8292131/). Thank you
  • Fixes obophenotype/cell-ontology#3163

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