Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Single-cell analysis of human primary prostate cancer reveals the heterogeneity of tumor-associated epithelial cell states

  • Hanbing Song,
  • Hannah N. W. Weinstein,
  • Paul Allegakoen,
  • Marc H. Wadsworth,
  • Jamie Xie,
  • Heiko Yang,
  • Ethan A. Castro,
  • Kevin L. Lu,
  • Bradley A. Stohr,
  • Felix Y. Feng,
  • Peter R. Carroll,
  • Bruce Wang,
  • Matthew R. Cooperberg,
  • Alex K. Shalek,
  • Franklin W. Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27322-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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The changes that prostate cancer (PCa) induces in its microenvironment are not fully understood. Here the authors use single-cell RNA-seq and organoids to characterise how the microenvironment responds to PCa, and also identify tumour-associated epithelial cell states and club cells.