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Supplementary Data from Fragmentation of Small-Cell Lung Cancer Regulatory States in Heterotypic Microenvironments

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posted on 2023-03-31, 04:24 authored by Dylan L. Schaff, Shambhavi Singh, Kee-Beom Kim, Matthew D. Sutcliffe, Kwon-Sik Park, Kevin A. Janes

Supplementary Figure S1-S13, Supplementary Table ST1, and captions for Supplementary Files S1-S2.

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UVA Cancer Center

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the David & Lucile Packard Foundation

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Small-cell lung cancers derive from pulmonary neuroendocrine cells, which have stem-like properties to reprogram into other cell types upon lung injury. It is difficult to uncouple transcriptional plasticity of these transformed cells from genetic changes that evolve in primary tumors or secondary metastases. Profiling of single cells is also problematic if the required sample dissociation activates injury-like signaling and reprogramming. Here we defined cell-state heterogeneities in situ through laser capture microdissection–based 10-cell transcriptomics coupled with stochastic-profiling fluctuation analysis. In labeled cells from a small-cell lung cancer mouse model initiated by neuroendocrine deletion of Rb1-Trp53, variations in transcript abundance revealed cell-to-cell differences in regulatory state in vitro and in vivo. Fluctuating transcripts in spheroid culture were partly shared among Rb1-Trp53–null models, and heterogeneities increased considerably when cells were delivered intravenously to colonize the liver. Colonization of immunocompromised animals drove a fractional appearance of alveolar type II–like markers and poised cells for paracrine stimulation from immune cells and hepatocytes. Immunocompetency further exaggerated the fragmentation of tumor states in the liver, yielding mixed stromal signatures evident in bulk sequencing from autochthonous tumors and metastases. Dozens of transcript heterogeneities recurred irrespective of biological context; their mapped orthologs brought together observations of murine and human small-cell lung cancer. Candidate heterogeneities recurrent in the liver also stratified primary human tumors into discrete groups not readily explained by molecular subtype but with prognostic relevance. These data suggest that heterotypic interactions in the liver and lung are an accelerant for intratumor heterogeneity in small-cell lung cancer. These findings demonstrate that the single-cell regulatory heterogeneity of small-cell lung cancer becomes increasingly elaborate in the liver, a common metastatic site for the disease.See related articles by Singh and colleagues, p. 1840 and Sutcliffe and colleagues, p. 1868

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