Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Basal cell of origin resolves neuroendocrine–tuft lineage plasticity in cancer
doi: 10.1101/2024.11.13.623500
Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Schematic depicting isolation, growth and transformation of basal cell-derived organoids from RPM mice followed by implantation into the flanks of scid/beige hosts. (b) Representative brightfield images of basal organoids pre- (wildtype) and post- (transformed) CMV-Cre. Scale bars=650 μm (left, low mag) or 275 μm (right, high mag). (c) Representative H&E staining of RPM basal-organoid-derived tumours isolated from scid/beige mouse flanks with more classic (left) or variant (right) histopathology. Scale bar=50 μm. (d) UMAP of scRNA-seq data from wildtype (orange) and transformed (purple) RPM basal organoids, plus basal-organoid-derived RPM allograft tumour cells (turquoise). Allograft sample includes n=5 distinct RPM basal allograft tumours. FeaturePlots depicting expression of gene signatures derived from normal basal versus NE cells (right) (Supplementary Table 2). (e) UMAP of scRNA-seq data from RPM allograft tumours only, annotated by Leiden cluster (left) (Supplementary Table 1), FeaturePlot expression of indicated genes (top, right), and corresponding violin plot expression of indicated genes per Leiden cluster (bottom, right). Red dashed circle outlines Cluster 9 enriched for Pou2f3 . (f) UMAP in (e) annotated by SCLC fate. Fates assigned based on enriched cell fate marker gene expression per Leiden cluster. (g) Violin plot of NE score per cell grouped by SCLC fate (left) from data in (f). UMAP of scRNA-seq data in (e) coloured by NE score (right). (h) Violin plot depicting ASCL1, NEUROD1, and POU2F3 ChIP target gene enrichment , , , (Supplementary Table 2) in tumour cells from (e), grouped by SCLC fate assignment. (i) Violin plot depicting gene set enrichment of normal NE, tuft, and basal cells (Supplementary Table 2) in tumour cells from (e), grouped by SCLC fate assignment. (j) Representative co-immunofluorescent (co-IF) staining for DAPI (nuclei, blue), ASCL1 (green), NEUROD1 (purple), and POU2F3 (red) in RPM basal allograft tumours. High magnification insets of co-expressing cells (yellow arrows) are in the upper right corner of overlays. Scale bars=75 μm. (k) Representative IHC of RPR2 basal-derived allograft tumours for H&E and indicated SCLC subtype markers (left) with corresponding H-score quantification for ASCL1 (A), NEUROD1 (N) or POU2F3 (P) compared to RPM basal allograft tumours (right). Scale bar=50 μm. Mann-Whitney two-tailed t-test. * p<0.02, *** p<0.0005. (l) UMAP of scRNA-seq data from basal-organoid-derived RPM (turquoise, n=5 tumours) and RPR2 (maroon, n=1) allograft tumour cells. (m) UMAP in (l) annotated by Leiden cluster (Supplementary Table 1) (left). Proportion of cells from RPM vs RPR2 allograft tumours in each Leiden cluster, represented as % of all cells per sample (right). (n) UMAP of scRNA-seq data in (l) coloured by NE score (left). Violin plot of NE score per cell in RPM vs RPR2 basal allograft tumour cells (right). Student’s unpaired t-test. ** p<0.01. Box-whisker overlays on all violin plots indicate median and upper and lower quartile. Unless otherwise indicated, statistical tests are one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s correction. **** p<0.0001, * p<0.03, ns=not significant, p>0.05.
Article Snippet: Primary antibodies included: anti-mouse ASCL1 (BD Pharmingen cat#556604) 1:25; anti-rabbit ASCL1 (Abcam cat#211327) 1:100; anti-goat NEUROD1 (R&D Systems cat# AF2746) 1:50; anti-rabbit NEUROD1 (Abcam cat#109224) 1:200; POU2F3 (Sigma cat# HPA019652) 1:100; anti-rabbit CCSP/SCGB1A1 (Millipore Sigma cat#07-623) 1:75; anti-rat KRT8 (DSHB cat# TROMA-I) 1:100; anti-mouse FOXJ1 (eBioscience cat#14-9965-80) 1:100; anti-mouse KI67 (BD Pharmingen cat# BDB556003) 1:100; anti-goat DNP63 (R&D cat# AF1916) 1:40.
Techniques: Isolation, Transformation Assay, Derivative Assay, Staining, Variant Assay, Histopathology, Expressing, Marker, MANN-WHITNEY, Two Tailed Test, Whisker Assay