Otsuji Kazutaka, Takahashi Yoko, Osako Tomo, Kobayashi Takayuki, Takano Toshimi, Saeki Sumito, Yang Liying, Baba Satoko, Kumegawa Kohei, Suzuki Hiromu, Noda Tetsuo, Takeuchi Kengo, Ohno Shinji, Ueno Takayuki, Maruyama Reo
Cancer Cell Diversity Project, NEXT-Ganken Program, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan.
Breast Surgical Oncology, Breast Oncology Center, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan.
NPJ Precis Oncol. 2024 Oct 3;8(1):222. doi: 10.1038/s41698-024-00723-6.
Metastasis is a complex process that remains poorly understood at the molecular levels. We profiled single-cell transcriptomic, genomic, and epigenomic changes associated with cancer cell progression, chemotherapy resistance, and metastasis from a Stage IV breast cancer patient. Pretreatment- and posttreatment-specimens from the primary tumor and distant metastases were collected for single-cell RNA sequencing and subsequent cell clustering, copy number variation (CNV) estimation, transcriptomic factor estimation, and pseudotime analyses. CNV analysis revealed that a small population of pretreatment cancer cells resisted chemotherapy and expanded. New clones including Metastatic Precursor Cells (MPCs), emerged in the posttreatment primary tumors in CNV similar to metastatic cells. MPCs exhibited expression profiles indicative of epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Comparison of MPCs with metastatic cancer cells also revealed dynamic changes in transcription factors and calcitonin pathway gene expression. These findings demonstrate the utility of single-patient clinical sample analysis for understanding tumor drug resistance, regrowth, and metastasis.
转移是一个复杂的过程,在分子水平上仍知之甚少。我们对一名IV期乳腺癌患者癌细胞进展、化疗耐药性和转移相关的单细胞转录组、基因组和表观基因组变化进行了分析。收集原发性肿瘤和远处转移灶的治疗前和治疗后样本,用于单细胞RNA测序以及随后的细胞聚类、拷贝数变异(CNV)估计、转录组因子估计和伪时间分析。CNV分析显示,一小部分治疗前癌细胞对化疗产生耐药并增殖。在治疗后的原发性肿瘤中出现了包括转移前体细胞(MPC)在内的新克隆,其CNV与转移细胞相似。MPC表现出上皮-间质转化的表达谱。将MPC与转移性癌细胞进行比较还揭示了转录因子和降钙素途径基因表达的动态变化。这些发现证明了单患者临床样本分析对于理解肿瘤耐药性、再生长和转移的实用性。
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