Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Dissecting spatial heterogeneity and the immune-evasion mechanism of CTCs by single-cell RNA-seq in hepatocellular carcinoma

  • Yun-Fan Sun,
  • Liang Wu,
  • Shi-Ping Liu,
  • Miao-Miao Jiang,
  • Bo Hu,
  • Kai-Qian Zhou,
  • Wei Guo,
  • Yang Xu,
  • Yu Zhong,
  • Xiao-Rui Zhou,
  • Ze-Fan Zhang,
  • Geng Liu,
  • Sheng Liu,
  • Ying-Hong Shi,
  • Yuan Ji,
  • Min Du,
  • Nan-Nan Li,
  • Gui-Bo Li,
  • Zhi-Kun Zhao,
  • Xiao-Yun Huang,
  • Li-Qin Xu,
  • Qi-Chao Yu,
  • David H. Peng,
  • Shuang-Jian Qiu,
  • Hui-Chuan Sun,
  • Michael Dean,
  • Xiang-Dong Wang,
  • Wen-Yuan Chung,
  • Ashley R. Dennison,
  • Jian Zhou,
  • Yong Hou,
  • Jia Fan,
  • Xin-Rong Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24386-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Circulating tumour cells can be useful for monitoring disease progression but how they survive in the circulatory system is unclear. Here, the authors use single-cell sequencing of circulating tumour cells from multiple vascular sites in liver cancer patients and identify genes that may help the cells survive.