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Spatial epitope barcoding reveals subclonaltumor patch behaviors

Rovira-Clave, X.; Drainas, A. P.; Jiang, S.; Bai, Y.; Baron, M.; Zhu, B.; Markovic, M.; Coles, G. L.; Bassik, M. C.; Sage, J.; Nolan, G. P.

2021-06-30 cancer biology
10.1101/2021.06.29.449991 bioRxiv
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Intratumoral variability is a seminal feature of human tumors contributing to tumor progression and response to treatment. Current technologies are unsuitable to accurately track phenotypes and subclonal evolution within tumors, especially in response to genetic manipulations. Here, we developed epitope combinatorial tags (EpicTags), which we coupled to multiplexed ion beam imaging (EpicMIBI) for in situ tracking of barcodes within tissue microenvironments. Using this platform, we dissected the spatial component of cell lineages and phenotypes in a xenograft model of small-cell lung cancer. We observed emergent properties from mixed clones leading to the preferential expansion of subclonal patches for both neuroendocrine and non-neuroendocrine cancer cell states in this model. In tumors harboring a fraction of PTEN-deficient cancer cells, we uncovered a non-autonomous increase of subclonal patch size in PTEN wildtype cancer cells. EpicMIBI can facilitate in situ interrogation of cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic processes involved in intratumoral heterogeneity.

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