Zhang Siwen, Liu Zhenhao, Wu Dan, Chen Lanming, Xie Lu
Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage and Preservation (Shanghai), China Ministry of Agriculture, College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
Front Oncol. 2020 Nov 2;10:596318. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.596318. eCollection 2020.
The occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) related to liver cirrhosis is mostly accompanied by extensive immune infiltration. To reveal the infiltration immune cells landscape, single-cell RNA sequencing data from the healthy donor (HD), patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) and HCC were collected for analysis. By drawing a cell map and calculating the proportion of each cell type, total B cells were identified with a significant higher proportion in HCC (24.26%) than in LC (5.41%) and HD (5.82%), in which plasma cells account for 97.1% in HCC. While in HCC, TCGA datasets were taken for further investigation, and it was found that patients with lower proportion of plasma cells showed better prognosis. The pseudotime cell trajectory analysis of B cell population found that humoral immunity continuously changes during HD, LC and HCC, and humoral immune-related genes are highly expressed in the HCC stage. This suggests humoral immunity may play a key role in the development of LC-associated HCC. At the same time, single cell data of hepatocytes identified differentially expressed genes in HD/LC and LC/HCC groups, and a prognostic model constructed with six of the differential genes (FTCD, MARCKSL1, CXCL3, RGS5, KNG1, and S100A16) could classify HCC patients to two distinct risk groups (median survival time 2.46 years vs. 6.73 years, p < 0.001). Our study demonstrated the power of single-cell data analysis in dissecting tissues into infiltration and main body cells, it revealed the pivotal roles of humoral immunity infiltration in the landscape of HCC associated with cirrhosis, and the key tumor prognostic genes in hepatocytes themselves. These brought novel insights into studying microenvironment and tumor cells parallelly in cancer research. The interaction of both, rather than factors from one side may have caused tumorigenesis and progression.
与肝硬化相关的肝细胞癌(HCC)的发生大多伴随着广泛的免疫浸润。为了揭示浸润免疫细胞图谱,收集了来自健康供体(HD)、肝硬化(LC)患者和HCC患者的单细胞RNA测序数据进行分析。通过绘制细胞图谱并计算每种细胞类型的比例,发现HCC中总B细胞的比例(24.26%)显著高于LC(5.41%)和HD(5.82%),其中HCC中浆细胞占97.1%。而在HCC中,采用TCGA数据集进行进一步研究,发现浆细胞比例较低的患者预后较好。对B细胞群体进行伪时间细胞轨迹分析发现,在HD、LC和HCC过程中体液免疫不断变化,且体液免疫相关基因在HCC阶段高表达。这表明体液免疫可能在LC相关HCC的发生发展中起关键作用。同时,肝细胞的单细胞数据鉴定了HD/LC和LC/HCC组中的差异表达基因,用其中6个差异基因(FTCD、MARCKSL1、CXCL3、RGS5、KNG1和S100A16)构建的预后模型可将HCC患者分为两个不同的风险组(中位生存时间2.46年对6.73年,p<0.001)。我们的研究证明了单细胞数据分析在将组织分解为浸润细胞和主体细胞方面的能力,揭示了体液免疫浸润在肝硬化相关HCC图谱中的关键作用,以及肝细胞自身的关键肿瘤预后基因。这些为癌症研究中平行研究微环境和肿瘤细胞带来了新的见解。两者的相互作用,而非单方面的因素可能导致了肿瘤的发生和进展。
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