Compendium of available lists of ligand-receptor pairs in literature
This compendium has been created to collect lists of ligand-receptor pairs
and interactions for surface-secreted proteins that are available in literature.
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Information about collected lists
Article |
Organism |
Number of LR pairs |
Downstream genes? |
Protein Complexes? |
Functional Annotations? |
Metabolites? |
Associated Tool |
Kirouac et al. (2010) |
Human |
232 |
|
|
|
|
|
Qiao et al. (2014) |
Human |
933 |
|
|
|
|
|
Ramilowski et al. (2015) |
Human |
2,422 |
|
|
|
|
|
Choi et al. (2015) |
Human |
1,427 |
|
|
|
|
|
Pavlicev et al. (2017) |
Human |
1,006 |
|
|
|
|
|
Vento-Tormo et al. (2018) & Efremova et al. (2020) |
Human |
878 |
|
X |
|
|
CellPhoneDB |
Wang et al. (2019) |
Human |
2,649 |
|
|
X |
|
iTalk |
Ximerakis et al. (2019) & BaderLab (baderlab.org/CellCellInteractions) |
Human |
115,900 |
|
|
|
|
|
Browaeys et al. (2019) |
Human |
12,659 |
X |
|
|
|
NicheNet |
Noël et al. (2020) |
Human |
380 |
|
X |
X |
|
ICELLNET |
Cabello-Aguilar et al. (2020) |
Human |
3,251 |
|
|
|
|
SingleCellSignalR |
Jin et al. (2020) |
Human |
2,005 |
|
X |
X |
|
CellChat |
Hou et al. (2020) |
Human |
2,187 |
|
|
|
|
NATMI |
Shao et al. (2020) |
Human |
3,398 |
|
|
|
|
|
Turei et al. (2021) |
Human |
74,909 |
X |
X |
X |
|
|
Zheng et al. (2022) |
Human |
440 |
|
|
|
X |
MEBOCOST |
Dimitrov et al. (2022) |
Human |
4,701 |
|
X |
|
|
LIANA |
Zhao et al. (2023) |
Human |
190 |
|
|
|
X |
NeuronChat |
Ding et al. (2016) |
Mouse |
561 |
|
|
|
|
|
Yuzwa et al. (2016) |
Mouse |
949 |
|
|
|
|
|
Skelly et al. (2018) |
Mouse |
2,009 |
|
|
|
|
|
Sheikh et al. (2019) |
Mouse |
1,710 |
|
|
|
|
|
Baccin et al. (2020) |
Mouse |
721 |
|
X |
X |
|
RNA-Magnet (Algorithm) |
Cain et al. (2020) |
Mouse |
2,356 |
|
|
|
|
|
Jin et al. (2020) |
Mouse |
2,021 |
|
X |
X |
|
CellChat |
Shao et al. (2020) |
Mouse |
2,033 |
|
|
|
|
|
Dimitrov et al. (2022) |
Mouse |
3,998 |
|
X |
|
|
LIANA |
Zhao et al. (2023) |
Mouse |
183 |
|
|
|
X |
NeuronChat |
Raredon et al. (2019) |
Mammals |
269 |
|
|
X |
|
|
Armingol et al. (2022) |
C. elegans |
245 |
|
|
X |
|
cell2cell |
Liu et al. (2022) |
Drosophila |
197 |
|
|
X |
|
FlyPhoneDB |
Xu et al. (2022) |
Plants |
1,751 - 3,762 |
|
|
|
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PlantPhoneDB |
References for Human Lists
- Kirouac et al. (2010) Dynamic interaction networks in a hierarchically organized tissue
| Article
| LR pairs
- Qiao et al. (2014) Intercellular network structure and regulatory motifs in the human
hematopoietic system
| Article
| LR pairs
- Ramilowski et al. (2015) A draft network of ligand–receptor-mediated multicellular
signalling in human
| Article
| LR pairs
- Choi et al. (2015) Transcriptome Analysis of Individual Stromal Cell Populations
Identifies Stroma-Tumor Crosstalk in Mouse Lung Cancer Model
| Article
| LR pairs
- Pavlicev et al. (2017) Single-cell transcriptomics of the human placenta: inferring
the cell communication network of the maternal-fetal interface
| Article
| LR pairs
- Vento-Tormo et al. (2018) Single-cell reconstruction of the early maternal-fetal
interface in humans // Efremova et al. (2020) CellPhoneDB: inferring cell–cell communication
from combined expression of multi-subunit ligand–receptor complexes
| Article 1
| Article 2
| LR pairs
- Wang et al. (2019) iTALK: an R Package to Characterize and Illustrate
Intercellular Communication
| Article
| LR pairs
- Ximerakis et al. (2019) Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of
the aging mouse brain
| Article
| LR pairs
- Browaeys et al. (2019) NicheNet: Modeling Intercellular Communication
by Linking Ligands to Target Genes
| Article
| LR pairs
- Noël et al. (2020) ICELLNET: a transcriptome-based framework to
dissect intercellular communication
| Article
| LR pairs
- Cabello-Aguilar et al. (2020) SingleCellSignalR: inference of intercellular networks
from single-cell transcriptomics
| Article
| LR pairs
- Jin et al. (2020) Inference and analysis of cell-cell communication using CellChat
| Article
| LR pairs
- Hou et al. (2020) Predicting cell-to-cell communication networks using NATMI
| Article
| LR pairs
- Shao et al. (2020) CellTalkDB: a manually curated database of ligand–receptor
interactions in humans and mice
| Article
| LR pairs
- Turei et al. (2021) Integrated intra- and intercellular signaling knowledge for
multicellular omics analysis
| Article
| LR pairs
- Zheng et al. (2022) MEBOCOST: Metabolic Cell-Cell Communication Modeling by
Single Cell Transcriptome
| Article
| LR pairs
- Dimitrov et al. (2022) Comparison of methods and resources for cell-cell
communication inference from single-cell RNA-Seq data
| Article
| LR pairs
- Zhao et al. (2023) Inferring neuron-neuron communications from
single-cell transcriptomics through NeuronChat
| Article
| LR pairs
References for Mouse Lists
- Ding et al. (2016) A cell-type-resolved liver proteome
| Article
| LR pairs
- Yuzwa et al. (2016) Proneurogenic ligands defined by
modeling developing cortex growth factor communication networks
| Article
| LR pairs
- Skelly et al. (2018) Single-cell transcriptional profiling reveals cellular
diversity and intercommunication in the mouse heart
| Article
| LR pairs
- Sheikh et al. (2019) Systematic identification of
cell-cell communication networks in the developing brain
| Article
| LR pairs
- Baccin et al. (2020) Combined single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveal the molecular,
cellular and spatial bone marrow niche organization
| Article
| LR pairs
- Cain et al. (2020) Quantitative single-cell interactomes
in normal and virus-infected mouse lungs
| Article
| LR pairs
- Jin et al. (2020) Inference and analysis of cell-cell communication using CellChat
| Article
| LR pairs
- Shao et al. (2020) CellTalkDB: a manually curated database of ligand–receptor
interactions in humans and mice
| Article
| LR pairs
- Dimitrov et al. (2022) Comparison of methods and resources for cell-cell
communication inference from single-cell RNA-Seq data
| Article
| LR pairs
- Zhao et al. (2023) Inferring neuron-neuron communications from
single-cell transcriptomics through NeuronChat
| Article
| LR pairs
References for Lists of Other Organisms
- [Mammals]: Raredon et al. (2019) Single-cell connectomic analysis of
adult mammalian lungs
| Article
| LR pairs
- [C. elegans]: Armingol et al. (2022) Inferring a spatial code of cell-cell
interactions across a whole animal body
| Article
| LR pairs
- [Drosophila]: Liu et al. (2022) FlyPhoneDB: an integrated web-based resource for cell–cell
communication prediction in Drosophila
| Article
| LR pairs
- [Plants]: Xu et al. (2022) PlantPhoneDB: A manually curated pan-plant database of
ligand-receptor pairs infers cell-cell communication
| Article
| LR pairs