Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Breast Cancer Macrophage Heterogeneity and Self-renewal are Determined by Spatial Localization
doi: 10.1101/2023.10.24.563749
Figure Lengend Snippet: ( a ) S patial P r O tein and T ranscriptome S equencing (SPOTS) on tissue from MMTV-PyMT model (n=3 mice). ( b ) Tissue structure. IF staining with EpCAM-PE and CD45-APC to reveal the tissue architecture. Scale bar, 200μm. ( c ) Spatial clustering and ADT signatures of each cluster. Left panel: spatially-informed clusters (1-6) overlaid onto tissue spatial barcodes. Right panel: heatmap of ADT expression for each cluster, where the right colorbar represents the cell-type annotation of each ADT. ( d ) Spatial ADT expression levels of key surface markers for tumor (EpCAM), fibroblasts (PDPN), and macrophages (F4/80, CD86) in fibroblast-enriched region (cluster 2) and adenocarcinoma (cluster 5). Note enrichment of EpCAM high CD86 high expression in adenocarcinoma region (cluster 5; consistent with TNMs) vs. enrichment of PDPN high F4/80 high expression in fibroblasts-enriched regions (cluster 2; consistent with SAMs). ( e ) Spatial correlation of lineage (NK1.1, CD4, CD8, CD11b, F4/80, MHC-II, EpCAM) immunostimulatory (CD27, CD86, CCR2, CD11c), and immunosuppressive (PD-L1, Sca-1) ADTs in fibroblast-enriched region (cluster 2) and adenocarcinoma region (cluster 5). ADTs are colored by bivariate Moran’s I (color scale). The size of each dot represents the inverse of standard error of the mean (S.E.M; n=3 mice). Dendrograms indicate the hierarchical clustering of the ADTs. ( f ) EpCAM and CCR2 vs. PDPN and F4/80 ADTs co-expression levels overlaid onto tumor sample A tissue (Methods) and immunophenotyping of SAMs and TNMs. Middle panel: boxplots of EpCAM and CCR2 vs. PDPN and F4/80 co-expression levels (addition of EpCAM and CCR2, or PDPN and F4/80 expression values). Right panel: violin plots of immune-stimulatory and suppressive ADT expression levels. Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001, otherwise not significant (n.s). Each boxplot ranges from the first and third quartiles with median values shown as middle lines, and the whiskers represent 1.5 times the interquartile range. ( g ) Volcano plot showing log fold changes (logFC) of top 5,000 most variable genes between fibroblast-enriched region (cluster 2) vs. adenocarcinoma region (cluster 5) and their significance (y axis; -log10 scale). Genes are dotted and colored by logFC levels (color scale). The size of each dot represents the difference in the fraction of detection between the two groups. Macrophage-related genes are annotated. P -values were determined by Wilcoxon Rank Sum test. Vertical dotted lines represent ±0.2 logFC. Horizontal dotted lines represent FDR of 0.05 (-log10 scale). Raw, FDR corrected P -values, and logFC values are listed in Supplementary Table 10. ( h ) Gene Set Enrichment Analysis of scRNA-seq Ly6a +SAM gene signature (Supplementary Table 7; ) in the fibroblast-enriched region (cluster 2) ( P = 0.002). ( i ) Gene expression of IFNα response genes ( Ly6a, Ly6c1, Ifit1, Ifit3, Ifitm3, Irf7, Isg15, Stat1, Stat2 ) in SAMs (cluster 2) and TNMs (cluster 5). Genes are dotted and colored by expression levels. The size of each dot represents the percentage of expression in the tissue area. ( j ) Notch signaling pathway activity in fibroblast-enriched regions (SAMs) and adenocarcinoma regions (TNMs) across all three biological replicates. Left panel: violin plots of NOTCH4 ADT expression levels. Right panel: violin plots of Notch signaling pathway (GO:0007219; n=179 genes) transcriptional expression levels. Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001, otherwise not significant (n.s).
Article Snippet: Then, mice were pooled and randomized into two arms: vehicle-treated (PBS) or Notch4-treated with anti-Notch4 monoclonal antibodies (BioXcell, clone HMN4-14).
Techniques: Staining, Expressing, Gene Expression, Activity Assay