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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Denisenko, Elena
• de Kock, Leanne
• Tan, Adeline
• Beasley, Aaron B
• Beilin, Maria
• Jones, Matthew E
• Hou, Rui
• Muirí, Dáithí Ó
• Bilic, Sanela
• Mohan, G Raj K A
• Salfinger, Stuart
• Fox, Simon
• Hmon, Khaing P W
• Yeow, Yen
• Kim, Youngmi
• John, Rhea
• Gilderman, Tami S
• Killingbeck, Emily
• Gray, Elin S
• Cohen, Paul A
• Yu, Yu
• Forrest, Alistair R R

Titel

Spatial transcriptomics reveals discrete tumour microenvironments and autocrine loops within ovarian cancer subclones

Ist Teil von

• Nature communications, 2024-04, Vol.15 (1), p.2860-2860, Article 2860

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) is genetically unstable and characterised by the presence of subclones with distinct genotypes. Intratumoural heterogeneity is linked to recurrence, chemotherapy resistance, and poor prognosis. Here, we use spatial transcriptomics to identify HGSOC subclones and study their association with infiltrating cell populations. Visium spatial transcriptomics reveals multiple tumour subclones with different copy number alterations present within individual tumour sections. These subclones differentially express various ligands and receptors and are predicted to differentially associate with different stromal and immune cell populations. In one sample, CosMx single molecule imaging reveals subclones differentially associating with immune cell populations, fibroblasts, and endothelial cells. Cell-to-cell communication analysis identifies subclone-specific signalling to stromal and immune cells and multiple subclone-specific autocrine loops. Our study highlights the high degree of subclonal heterogeneity in HGSOC and suggests that subclone-specific ligand and receptor expression patterns likely modulate how HGSOC cells interact with their local microenvironment.