NDLI: Spatial transcriptomics atlas reveals the crosstalk between cancer-associated fibroblasts and tumor microenvironment components in colorectal cancer

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Author	Peng, Zhiwei Ye, Manping Ding, Huiming Feng, Zhenyou Hu, Kongwang
Abstract	Background The tumor-promoting role of tumor microenvironment (TME) in colorectal cancer has been widely investigated in cancer biology. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), as the main stromal component in TME, play an important role in promoting tumor progression and metastasis. Hence, we explored the crosstalk between CAFs and microenvironment in the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer in order to provide basis for precision therapy. Methods We integrated spatial transcriptomics (ST) and bulk-RNA sequencing datasets to explore the functions of CAFs in the microenvironment of CRC. In detail, single sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA), gene set variation analysis (GSVA), pseudotime analysis and cell proportion analysis were utilized to identify the cell types and functions of each cell cluster. Immunofluorescence and immunohistochemistry were applied to confirm the results based on bioinformatics analysis. Results We profiled the tumor heterogeneity landscape and identified two distinct types of CAFs, which myo-cancer-associated fibroblasts (mCAFs) is associated with myofibroblast-like cells and inflammatory-cancer-associated fibroblasts (iCAFs) is related to immune inflammation. When we carried out functional analysis of two types of CAFs, we uncovered an extensive crosstalk between iCAFs and stromal components in TME to promote tumor progression and metastasis. Noticeable, some anti-tumor immune cells such as NK cells, monocytes were significantly reduced in iCAFs-enriched cluster. Then, ssGSEA analysis results showed that iCAFs were related to EMT, lipid metabolism and bile acid metabolism etc. Besides, when we explored the relationship of chemotherapy and microenvironment, we detected that iCAFs influenced immunosuppressive cells and lipid metabolism reprogramming in patient who underwent chemotherapy. Additionally, we identified the clinical role of iCAFs through a public database and confirmed it were related to poor prognosis. Conclusions In summary, we identified two types of CAFs using integrated data and explored their functional significance in TME. This in-depth understanding of CAFs in microenvironment may help us to elucidate its cancer-promoting functions and offer hints for therapeutic studies.
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ISSN	14795876
DOI	10.1186/s12967-022-03510-8
Journal	Journal of Translational Medicine
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	20
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2022-07-06
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Subject Keyword	Biomedicine Medicine Public Health Spatial transcriptomics Colorectal cancer Cancer-associated fibroblasts Tumor microenvironment Medicine/Public Health
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Subject	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Medicine
Journal Impact Factor	6.1/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	6.3/2023

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