Microenvironment drives cell state, plasticity, and drug response in pancreatic cancer
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Author(s)
Winter, Peter S.
Navia, Andrew W.
Galvez-Reyes, Jennyfer
Mulugeta, Nolawit
Liu, Nuo
Jaeger, Alex M.
Date Issued
December 2021
Journal
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Citation
2021. "Microenvironment drives cell state, plasticity, and drug response in pancreatic cancer." Cell, 184 (25).
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Final published version
Abstract
Prognostically relevant RNA expression states exist in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), but our understanding of their drivers, stability, and relationship to therapeutic response is limited. To examine these attributes systematically, we profiled metastatic biopsies and matched organoid models at single-cell resolution. In vivo, we identify a new intermediate PDAC transcriptional cell state and uncover distinct site- and state-specific tumor microenvironments (TMEs). Benchmarking models against this reference map, we reveal strong culture-specific biases in cancer cell transcriptional state representation driven by altered TME signals. We restore expression state heterogeneity by adding back in vivo-relevant factors and show plasticity in culture models. Further, we prove that non-genetic modulation of cell state can strongly influence drug responses, uncovering state-specific vulnerabilities. This work provides a broadly applicable framework for aligning cell states across in vivo and ex vivo settings, identifying drivers of transcriptional plasticity and manipulating cell state to target associated vulnerabilities.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.11.017
