Human Adipose Tissue Atlas v1.0 — Vascular cells

Pericytes

Ontology Term

pericyteCL:0000669

Synonyms

Terms that have the same, or nearly the same, meaning as the selected cell type.

adventitial reticular cell, pericyte cell, adventitial cell, pericyte of Rouget, cell of Rouget, ARC

Category

Class of which the cell type is a subclass.

mural cellCL:0008034

Ontology Assessment

Disagreements with any aspect of the Cell Ontology.

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Marker Gene Evidence

Gene markers used by researcher to assign this cell annotation.

STEAP4, COL25A1

Canonical Marker Genes

STEAP4, COL25A1

Rationale

STEAP4 (STEAP family member 4) and COL25A1 (collagen type XXV alpha 1) show enriched expression in pericytes in single-nucleus adipose tissue datasets, and are used here to identify this population. Together these markers identify pericytes within the mural cell compartment and distinguish them from smooth muscle cells and stromal populations in adipose tissue.

Rationale DOI

10.1038/s42255-025-01296-9

Inherited from lvl3_cell_types

Set of Labels Description

Level 3 cell type labels (most fine-grained).

Annotation Method

manual