Han Ya, Zhang Lele, Sun Dongqing, Cao Guangxu, Wang Yuting, Yue Jiali, Hu Junjie, Dong Zhonghua, Li Fang, Li Taiwen, Zhang Peng, Wu Qiu, Wang Chenfei
Key Laboratory of Spine and Spinal Cord Injury Repair and Regeneration of Ministry of Education, Department of Orthopedics, Tongji Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Tongji, China.
Frontier Science Center for Stem Cells, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Nat Cancer. 2025 Aug 25. doi: 10.1038/s43018-025-01039-5.
The tumor microenvironment evolves during tumor development and influences the cells in the microenvironment to orchestrate a supportive environment for tumor growth. Here we collected 4,483,367 cells across 36 cancer types and constructed a pan-cancer resource named TabulaTIME. Our integrated analyses reveal that CTHRC1 is a hallmark of extracellular matrix-related cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) that are enriched in different cancer types. Spatiotemporal analyses further indicated that CTHRC1 CAFs are located at the leading edge between the malignant and normal regions, potentially preventing immune infiltration. Moreover, we identified that SLPI macrophages exhibit profibrotic-associated phenotypes and colocalize with CTHRC1 CAFs to form unique spatial ecotypes. Finally, we demonstrated that TabulaTIME can be used to analyze tumor ecotype composition and can serve as a reference for cell-type annotation. This work establishes a comprehensive single-cell landscape of the heterogenous TME and offers a potential therapeutic strategy for targeting the profibrotic ecotype in cancer treatment.
肿瘤微环境在肿瘤发展过程中不断演变,并影响微环境中的细胞,从而为肿瘤生长精心营造一个支持性环境。我们收集了36种癌症类型的4483367个细胞,并构建了一个名为TabulaTIME的泛癌资源库。我们的综合分析表明,CTHRC1是细胞外基质相关癌症相关成纤维细胞(CAFs)的一个标志,这些细胞在不同癌症类型中富集。时空分析进一步表明,CTHRC1 CAFs位于恶性区域和正常区域之间的前沿,可能会阻止免疫浸润。此外,我们发现分泌性白细胞蛋白酶抑制因子(SLPI)巨噬细胞表现出与促纤维化相关的表型,并与CTHRC1 CAFs共定位,形成独特的空间生态型。最后,我们证明TabulaTIME可用于分析肿瘤生态型组成,并可作为细胞类型注释的参考。这项工作建立了一个全面的异质性肿瘤微环境单细胞图谱,并为癌症治疗中靶向促纤维化生态型提供了一种潜在的治疗策略。
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