An Integrative Model of Cellular States, Plasticity, and Genetics for Glioblastoma
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.06.024
An Integrative Model of Cellular States, Plasticity, and Genetics for Glioblastoma
Abstract
Diverse genetic, epigenetic, and developmental programs drive glioblastoma, an incurable and poorly understood tumor, but their precise characterization remains challenging. Here, we use an integrative approach spanning single-cell RNA-sequencing of 28 tumors, bulk genetic and expression analysis of 401 specimens from the The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), functional approaches, and single-cell lineage tracing to derive a unified model of cellular states and genetic diversity in glioblastoma. We find that malignant cells in glioblastoma exist in four main cellular states that recapitulate distinct neural cell types, are influenced by the tumor microenvironment, and exhibit plasticity. The relative frequency of cells in each state varies between glioblastoma samples and is influenced by copy number amplifications of the CDK4, EGFR, and PDGFRA loci and by mutations in the NF1 locus, which each favor a defined state. Our work provides a blueprint for glioblastoma, integrating the malignant cell programs, their plasticity, and their modulation by genetic drivers.
Keywords: CDK4; EGFR; NF1; PDGFRA; glioblastoma IDH-wildtype; glioblastoma stem cells; glioblastoma subtypes; lineage tracing; single-cell RNA-sequencing.
Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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The authors declare no competing interests.
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Comment in
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Plasticity and Clonality of Cancer Cell States.Trends Cancer. 2019 Nov;5(11):655-656. doi: 10.1016/j.trecan.2019.09.002. Epub 2019 Oct 14. Trends Cancer. 2019. PMID: 31735281
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