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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2023

SpaRx: Elucidate single-cell spatial heterogeneity of drug responses for personalized treatment.

Ziyang Tang, Xiang Liu, Zuotian Li, Tonglin Zhang, Baijian Yang, Jing Su, Qianqian Song

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ziyang TangDepartment of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University, Indiana, USA.
Xiang LiuDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana, USA.
Zuotian LiDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana, USA.
Tonglin ZhangDepartment of Statistics, Purdue University, Indiana, USA.
Baijian YangDepartment of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University, Indiana, USA.
Jing SuDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana, USA.
Qianqian SongCenter for Cancer Genomics and Precision Oncology, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, North Carolina, USA.
Indiana University School of MedicineWake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center

Funding

Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis ProgramP30CA082709 · NCI · INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS · PI Sara K Quinney · 1999 to 2026
$59.3M
Tumor Tissue CoreP30CA012197 · NCI · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Ruben A. Mesa · 1985 to 2026
$55.4M
Revealing Health Trajectories of Chronic Kidney Disease for Precision MedicineR01LM013771 · NLM · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI SU, JING, ZHANG, PENGYUE · 2022 to 2025
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA012197NCI NIH HHS P30 CA082709NLM NIH HHS R01 LM013771
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial cellular heterogeneity contributes to differential drug responses in a tumor lesion and potential therapeutic resistance. Recent emerging spatial technologies such as CosMx SMI, MERSCOPE, and Xenium delineate the spatial gene expression patterns at the single cell resolution. This provides unprecedented opportunities to identify spatially localized cellular resistance and to optimize the treatment for individual patients. In this work, we present a graph-based domain adaptation model, SpaRx, to reveal the heterogeneity of spatial cellular response to drugs. SpaRx transfers the knowledge from pharmacogenomics profiles to single-cell spatial transcriptomics data, through hybrid learning with dynamic adversarial adaption. Comprehensive benchmarking demonstrates the superior and robust performance of SpaRx at different dropout rates, noise levels, and transcriptomics coverage. Further application of SpaRx to the state-of-art single-cell spatial transcriptomics data reveals that tumor cells in different locations of a tumor lesion present heterogenous sensitivity or resistance to drugs. Moreover, resistant tumor cells interact with themselves or the surrounding constituents to form an ecosystem for drug resistance. Collectively, SpaRx characterizes the spatial therapeutic variability, unveils the molecular mechanisms underpinning drug resistance, and identifies personalized drug targets and effective drug combinations. Key Points: We have developed a novel graph-based domain adaption model named SpaRx, to reveal the heterogeneity of spatial cellular response to different types of drugs, which bridges the gap between pharmacogenomics knowledgebase and single-cell spatial transcriptomics data.SpaRx is developed tailored for single-cell spatial transcriptomics data and is provided available as a ready-to-use open-source software, which demonstrates high accuracy and robust performance.SpaRx uncovers that tumor cells located in different areas within tumor lesion exhibit varying levels of sensitivity or resistance to drugs. Moreover, SpaRx reveals that tumor cells interact with themselves and the surrounding microenvironment to form an ecosystem capable of drug resistance.

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