Dissecting spatial heterogeneity and the immune-evasion mechanism of CTCs by single-cell RNA-seq in hepatocellular carcinoma

Circulating tumour cells can be useful for monitoring disease progression but how they survive in the circulatory system is unclear. Here, the authors use single-cell sequencing of circulating tumour cells from multiple vascular sites in liver cancer patients and identify genes that may help the cel...

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Main Authors: Yun-Fan Sun, Liang Wu, Shi-Ping Liu, Miao-Miao Jiang, Bo Hu, Kai-Qian Zhou, Wei Guo, Yang Xu, Yu Zhong, Xiao-Rui Zhou, Ze-Fan Zhang, Geng Liu, Sheng Liu, Ying-Hong Shi, Yuan Ji, Min Du, Nan-Nan Li, Gui-Bo Li, Zhi-Kun Zhao, Xiao-Yun Huang, Li-Qin Xu, Qi-Chao Yu, David H. Peng, Shuang-Jian Qiu, Hui-Chuan Sun, Michael Dean, Xiang-Dong Wang, Wen-Yuan Chung, Ashley R. Dennison, Jian Zhou, Yong Hou, Jia Fan, Xin-Rong Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24386-0