scholarly journals Single-Cell Transcriptomes Combining with Consecutive Genomics Reveal Clonal Evolution and Gene Regulatory Networks in Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma

Author(s):  
Jiadai Xu ◽  
Yue Wang ◽  
Zheng Wei ◽  
Jingli Zhuang ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
...  

This study attempted to investigate how clonal structure evolves, along with potential regulatory networks, as a result of multiline therapies in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). Eight whole exome sequencing (WES) and one single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) were performed in order to assess dynamic genomic changes in temporal consecutive samples of one RRMM patient from the time of diagnosis to death (about 37 months). The 63-year-old female patient who suffered from MM (P1) had disease progression (PD) nine times from July 2017 [newly diagnosed (ND)] to Aug 2020 (death), and the force to drive branching-pattern evolution of malignant PCs was found to be sustained. The mutant-allele tumor heterogeneity (MATH) and tumor mutation burden (TMB) initially exhibited a downward trend, which was then upward throughout the course of the disease. Various somatic single nucleotide variants (SNVs) that had disappeared after the previous treatment were observed to reappear in later stages. Chromosomal instability (CIN) and homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) scores were observed to be increased during periods of all progression, especially in the period of extramedullary plasmacytoma. Finally, in combination with WES and scRNA-seq of P1-PD9 (the nineth PD), the intro-heterogeneity and gene regulatory networks of MM cells were deciphered. As verified by the overall survival of MM patients in the MMRF CoMMpass and GSE24080 datasets, RUNX3 was identified as a potential driver for RRMM.

Patterns ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 100332
Author(s):  
N. Alexia Raharinirina ◽  
Felix Peppert ◽  
Max von Kleist ◽  
Christof Schütte ◽  
Vikram Sunkara

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Turki Turki ◽  
Y-h. Taguchi

AbstractAnalyzing single-cell pancreatic data would play an important role in understanding various metabolic diseases and health conditions. Due to the sparsity and noise present in such single-cell gene expression data, analyzing various functions related to the inference of gene regulatory networks, derived from single-cell data, remains difficult, thereby posing a barrier to the deepening of understanding of cellular metabolism. Since recent studies have led to the reliable inference of single-cell gene regulatory networks (SCGRNs), the challenge of discriminating between SCGRNs has now arisen. By accurately discriminating between SCGRNs (e.g., distinguishing SCGRNs of healthy pancreas from those of T2D pancreas), biologists would be able to annotate, organize, visualize, and identify common patterns of SCGRNs for metabolic diseases. Such annotated SCGRNs could play an important role in speeding up the process of building large data repositories. In this study, we aimed to contribute to the development of a novel deep learning (DL) application. First, we generated a dataset consisting of 224 SCGRNs belonging to both T2D and healthy pancreas and made it freely available. Next, we chose seven DL architectures, including VGG16, VGG19, Xception, ResNet50, ResNet101, DenseNet121, and DenseNet169, trained each of them on the dataset, and checked prediction based on a test set. We evaluated the DL architectures on an HP workstation platform with a single NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080Ti GPU. Experimental results on the whole dataset, using several performance measures, demonstrated the superiority of VGG19 DL model in the automatic classification of SCGRNs, derived from the single-cell pancreatic data.


Cell ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 176 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 361-376.e17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam J. Rubin ◽  
Kevin R. Parker ◽  
Ansuman T. Satpathy ◽  
Yanyan Qi ◽  
Beijing Wu ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 246-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark W E J Fiers ◽  
Liesbeth Minnoye ◽  
Sara Aibar ◽  
Carmen Bravo González-Blas ◽  
Zeynep Kalender Atak ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Papili Gao ◽  
S M Minhaz Ud-Dean ◽  
Olivier Gandrillon ◽  
Rudiyanto Gunawan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soumya Korrapati ◽  
Ian Taukulis ◽  
Rafal Olszewski ◽  
Madeline Pyle ◽  
Shoujun Gu ◽  
...  

AbstractThe stria vascularis (SV) generates the endocochlear potential (EP) in the inner ear and is necessary for proper hair cell mechanotransduction and hearing. While channels belonging to SV cell types are known to play crucial roles in EP generation, relatively little is known about gene regulatory networks that underlie the ability of the SV to generate and maintain the EP. Using single cell and single nucleus RNA-sequencing, we identify and validate known and rare cell populations in the SV. Furthermore, we establish a basis for understanding molecular mechanisms underlying SV function by identifying potential gene regulatory networks as well as druggable gene targets. Finally, we associate known deafness genes with adult SV cell types. This work establishes a basis for dissecting the genetic mechanisms underlying the role of the SV in hearing and will serve as a basis for designing therapeutic approaches to hearing loss related to SV dysfunction.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Fønss Møller ◽  
Kedar Nath Natarajan

AbstractRecent single-cell RNA-sequencing atlases have surveyed and identified major cell-types across different mouse tissues. Here, we computationally reconstruct gene regulatory networks from 3 major mouse cell atlases to capture functional regulators critical for cell identity, while accounting for a variety of technical differences including sampled tissues, sequencing depth and author assigned cell-type labels. Extracting the regulatory crosstalk from mouse atlases, we identify and distinguish global regulons active in multiple cell-types from specialised cell-type specific regulons. We demonstrate that regulon activities accurately distinguish individual cell types, despite differences between individual atlases. We generate an integrated network that further uncovers regulon modules with coordinated activities critical for cell-types, and validate modules using available experimental data. Inferring regulatory networks during myeloid differentiation from wildtype and Irf8 KO cells, we uncover functional contribution of Irf8 regulon activity and composition towards monocyte lineage. Our analysis provides an avenue to further extract and integrate the regulatory crosstalk from single-cell expression data.SummaryIntegrated single-cell gene regulatory network from three mouse cell atlases captures global and cell-type specific regulatory modules and crosstalk, important for cellular identity.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Karaaslanli ◽  
SATABDI SAHA ◽  
Selin Aviyente ◽  
Tapabrata Maiti

Characterizing the underlying topology of gene regulatory networks is one of the fundamental problems of systems biology. Ongoing developments in high throughput sequencing technologies has made it possible to capture the expression of thousands of genes at the single cell resolution. However, inherent cellular heterogeneity and high sparsity of the single cell datasets render void the application of regular Gaussian assumptions for constructing gene regulatory networks. Additionally, most algorithms aimed at single cell gene regulatory network reconstruction, estimate a single network ignoring group-level (cell-type) information present within the datasets. To better characterize single cell gene regulatory networks under different but related conditions we propose the joint estimation of multiple networks using multiview graph learning (mvGL). The proposed method is developed based on recent works in graph signal processing (GSP) for graph learning, where graph signals are assumed to be smooth over the unknown graph structure. Graphs corresponding to the different datasets are regularized to be similar to each other through a learned consensus graph. We further kernelize mvGL with the kernel selected to suit the structure of single cell data. An efficient algorithm based on prox-linear block coordinate descent is used to optimize mvGL. We study the performance of mvGL using synthetic data generated with a diverse set of parameters. We further show that mvGL successfully identifies well-established regulators in a mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation study and a cancer clinical study of medulloblastoma.


eLife ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumin Jang ◽  
Sandeep Choubey ◽  
Leon Furchtgott ◽  
Ling-Nan Zou ◽  
Adele Doyle ◽  
...  

The complexity of gene regulatory networks that lead multipotent cells to acquire different cell fates makes a quantitative understanding of differentiation challenging. Using a statistical framework to analyze single-cell transcriptomics data, we infer the gene expression dynamics of early mouse embryonic stem (mES) cell differentiation, uncovering discrete transitions across nine cell states. We validate the predicted transitions across discrete states using flow cytometry. Moreover, using live-cell microscopy, we show that individual cells undergo abrupt transitions from a naïve to primed pluripotent state. Using the inferred discrete cell states to build a probabilistic model for the underlying gene regulatory network, we further predict and experimentally verify that these states have unique response to perturbations, thus defining them functionally. Our study provides a framework to infer the dynamics of differentiation from single cell transcriptomics data and to build predictive models of the gene regulatory networks that drive the sequence of cell fate decisions during development.


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