Single-cell spatial transcriptome reveals pathological features of human hippocampus with sclerosis
Wang, L.; Li, X.; Liu, Y.; Jin, B.; Wei, Y.; He, Y.; Ma, Y.; Wu, Z.; Gong, X.; An, Y.; Kong, X.; Xing, Y.; Ye, R.; Tao, Q.; Li, A.; Chang, M.; Pu, L.; Li, J.; Pang, L.; Zhou, D.; Song, C.; Liu, S.; Xu, X.; Liu, L.; Han, L.; Hong, Z.
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More than half of epileptic patients ultimately turned to intractable epilepsy. Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS), the most common type of intractable epilepsies, whose pathological mechanism remains elusive. Here, using 42 human hippocampal samples from surgical donors of MTLE (32 with and 10 without HS) through single-cell resolution Stereo-seq and histologcial experiments, we revealed spatially pathological changes of gene expression and cell type composition with HS systematically. After precise parcellation of hippocampal subregions and differentially expressed gene (DEG) analysis between each region with and without sclerosis, we found Cornu Ammonis (CA) subregions with higher number of DEGs were vulnerable to sclerosis, especially CA1 and CA3. Within CA1, we found that CA1-superficial and proximal areas were more vulnerable than CA1-deep and distal areas in sclerosis. Meanwhile, after analyzing 350,795 segmented cells from Stereo-seq, we found dramatically increasing density of astrocyte accompanied with significantly decreasing density of excitatory neurons in CA1, especially superficial and proximal CA1, and CA3 in sclerosis. In these two vulnerable subregions, proliferative astrocyte (P_astrocyte) and reactive astrocyte (R_astrocyte) were found to be enriched whereas apoptotic subtype of astrocyte (A_astrocyte), related with apoptotic pathway, was mainly located in alveus, which strengthened cell communication with reactive microglia (R_microglia) in HS, revealing the novel pathological feature in our work. The pseudotime analysis indicated that CA excitatory neurons underwent synaptic impairment, energy dysfunction, aging, and finally losing cell identity until death through autophagy or apoptosis. Besides, we also found a resilient subtype, EX_CA2-4.3, highly expressed extracellular matrix related genes including PDYN, and was increasing the interaction of BDNF-NTRK, NFASC-CNTN1 to withstand the damage from sclerosis. Together, our study provided a reference of human hippocampus with and without HS caused by MTLE, and highlighted the potential pathological mechanism on molecular and cellular level of MTLE-HS.
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