1. Mapping single-cell transcriptomes in the intra-tumoral and associated territories of kidney cancer.
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Li R, Ferdinand JR, Loudon KW, Bowyer GS, Laidlaw S, Muyas F, Mamanova L, Neves JB, Bolt L, Fasouli ES, Lawson ARJ, Young MD, Hooks Y, Oliver TRW, Butler TM, Armitage JN, Aho T, Riddick ACP, Gnanapragasam V, Welsh SJ, Meyer KB, Warren AY, Tran MGB, Stewart GD, Cortés-Ciriano I, Behjati S, Clatworthy MR, Campbell PJ, Teichmann SA, and Mitchell TJ
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- Humans, Transcriptome, Gene Expression Profiling, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition, Tumor Microenvironment genetics, Single-Cell Analysis, Carcinoma, Renal Cell genetics, Kidney Neoplasms genetics
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Tumor behavior is intricately dependent on the oncogenic properties of cancer cells and their multi-cellular interactions. To understand these dependencies within the wider microenvironment, we studied over 270,000 single-cell transcriptomes and 100 microdissected whole exomes from 12 patients with kidney tumors, prior to validation using spatial transcriptomics. Tissues were sampled from multiple regions of the tumor core, the tumor-normal interface, normal surrounding tissues, and peripheral blood. We find that the tissue-type location of CD8
+ T cell clonotypes largely defines their exhaustion state with intra-tumoral spatial heterogeneity that is not well explained by somatic heterogeneity. De novo mutation calling from single-cell RNA-sequencing data allows us to broadly infer the clonality of stromal cells and lineage-trace myeloid cell development. We report six conserved meta-programs that distinguish tumor cell function, and find an epithelial-mesenchymal transition meta-program highly enriched at the tumor-normal interface that co-localizes with IL1B-expressing macrophages, offering a potential therapeutic target., Competing Interests: Declaration of interests In the past 3 years, S.A.T. has consulted for Roche and Genentech and is a Scientific Advisory Board member of Qiagen, Foresite labs, Biogen, and GSK, as well as a consultant and equity holder as co-founder of Transition Bio., (Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)- Published
- 2022
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