Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: Tumor cell villages define the co-dependency of tumor and microenvironment in liver cancer
doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-69797-z
Figure Lengend Snippet: A Schematic overview of the workflow in this study. A total of 50 samples collected from the tumor core (T), tumor border (B), and adjacent non-tumor tissue (N) of 7 liver cancer patients (4 HCC, 3 iCCA) were profiled. Sample IDs were named based on histological subtypes of liver cancer, where H represents HCC and C represents iCCA. Single-cell transcriptome data, 10X Visium spatial transcriptome data, and bulk transcriptome data were used for validation, with sample numbers indicated. Illustration was partially created using BioRender. B UMAP embeddings of all profiled single cells colored by cell types ( n = 2,460,095, top panel), and the cells colored by profiling methods ( n = 2,347,589, CosMx TM SMI; n = 112,506, scRNA-seq, bottom panel). C , D A representative tumor sample (1CT) colored by cell types ( C ) and gene score of each cell type ( D ). Gene score was determined based on the average expression of marker genes specific to each cell type. E Cell type annotation and protein staining of a selected window in ( C ). CD68 (red) and Pan-cytokeratin (Pan-CK, green) represent markers for macrophages and epithelial cells. DAPI (light gray) and CD298/B2M (blue) were used for nuclei and membrane staining. A total of 15 samples were profiled using CosMx TM SMI. Scale bars, 50 µm. F Comparison of cell type compositions based on scRNA-seq and CosMx TM SMI from the same set of liver cancer patients in our cohort.
Article Snippet: The publicly available 10X genomics visium datasets used in this study include samples from Liu et al. (Mendeley Data: skrx2fz79n, https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/skrx2fz79n ), Wu et al. ( http://lifeome.net/supp/livercancer-st/data.htm ), Zhang et al. (GEO accession: GSE238264 , https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE238264 ), and Mo et al. (HTAN DCC Portal under the HTAN WUSTL Atlas, https://data.humantumoratlas.org/ ).
Techniques: Single Cell, Biomarker Discovery, Expressing, Marker, Staining, Membrane, Comparison