Ependymoma (EPN) is a malignant glial tumor occurring throughout central nervous system, which commonly presents in children. Although recent studies have characterized EPN samples at both the bulk and single-cell level, intratumoral heterogeneity across subclones remains a confounding factor that impedes understanding of EPN biology. In this study, we generated a high-resolution single-cell dataset of pediatric ependymoma with a particular focus on the comparison of subclone differences within tumors and showed upregulation of cilium-associated genes in more highly differentiated subclone populations. As a proxy to traditional pseudotime analysis, we applied a novel trajectory scoring method to reveal cellular compositions associated with poor survival outcomes across primary and relapsed patients. Furthermore, we identified putative cell-cell communication features between relapsed and primary samples and showed upregulation of pathways associated with immune cell crosstalk. Our results revealed both inter- and intratumoral heterogeneity in EPN and provided a framework for studying transcriptomic signatures of individual subclones at single-cell resolution.
基金:
National Key R&D Program of
China (2019YFA0801900 and 2018YFA0801104), the National
Natural Science Foundation of China (81891002, 31921002,
32070972, and 31771131), the Strategic Priority Research
Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB32020000), and
the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission
(Z210010 and Z181100001518001).
第一作者单位:[1]Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Genet & Dev Biol, State Key Lab Mol Dev Biol, Beijing, Peoples R China[2]Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
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通讯机构:[1]Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Genet & Dev Biol, State Key Lab Mol Dev Biol, Beijing, Peoples R China[2]Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Wu Haoda,Fu Ruiqing,Zhang Yu-Hong,et al.Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Unravels Upregulation of Immune Cell Crosstalk in Relapsed Pediatric Ependymoma[J].FRONTIERS in IMMUNOLOGY.2022,13:doi:10.3389/fimmu.2022.903246.
APA:
Wu, Haoda,Fu, Ruiqing,Zhang, Yu-Hong,Liu, Zhiming,Chen, Zhen-Hua...&Wu, Qing-Feng.(2022).Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Unravels Upregulation of Immune Cell Crosstalk in Relapsed Pediatric Ependymoma.FRONTIERS in IMMUNOLOGY,13,
MLA:
Wu, Haoda,et al."Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Unravels Upregulation of Immune Cell Crosstalk in Relapsed Pediatric Ependymoma".FRONTIERS in IMMUNOLOGY 13.(2022)