Characterizing Heterogeneity along EMT and Metabolic Axes in Colorectal Cancer Reveals Underlying Consensus Molecular Subtype-Specific Trends
Translational oncology(2024)
摘要
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is highly heterogeneous with variable survival outcomes and therapeutic vulnerabilities. A commonly used classification system in CRC is the Consensus Molecular Subtypes (CMS) based on gene expression patterns. However, how these CMS categories connect to axes of phenotypic plasticity and hetero-geneity remains unclear. Here, in our analysis of CMS-specific TCGA data and 101 bulk transcriptomic datasets, we found the epithelial phenotype score to be consistently positively correlated with scores of glycolysis, OXPHOS and FAO pathways, while PD-L1 activity scores positively correlated with mesenchymal phenotype scoring, revealing possible interconnections among plasticity axes. Single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis of pa-tient samples revealed that that CMS2 and CMS3 subtype samples were relatively more epithelial as compared to CMS1 and CMS4. CMS1 revealed two subpopulations: one close to CMS4 (more mesenchymal) and the other closer to CMS2 or CMS3 (more epithelial), indicating a partial EMT-like behavior. Consistent observations were made in single-cell analysis of metabolic axes and PD-L1 activity scores. Together, our results quantify the patterns of two functional interconnected axes of phenotypic heterogeneity - EMT and metabolic reprogramming - in a CMS-specific manner in CRC.
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Phenotypic heterogeneity,EMT,Colorectal cancer,Metabolic plasticity,Meta -analysis
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