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ArticleScience advances2024

Single-cell chemoproteomics identifies metastatic activity signatures in breast cancer.

Kavya Smitha Pillai, Olivia Laxton, Gang Li, Jing Lin, Olga Karginova, Rita Nanda, Olufunmilayo I Olopade, Savaş Tay, Raymond E Moellering

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Article in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Regulation of antiviral and antitumor immunity by theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  7. Advanced Microfluidics for Single Cell-Based Cancer Research.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Kavya Smitha PillaiDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-1711-6512
Olivia LaxtonDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4711-696X
Gang LiDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4434-4756
Jing LinInstitute for Genomics and Systems Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7162-3630
Olga KarginovaCenter for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Rita NandaCenter for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5248-0876
Olufunmilayo I OlopadeCenter for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9936-1599
Savaş TayInstitute for Genomics and Systems Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1912-6020
Raymond E MoelleringDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2043-7838

Funding

UChicago Interdisciplinary Cancer Health Disparities SPOREP20CA233307 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI HUO, DEZHENG · 2018 to 2020
$3.4M
Understanding robust cellular information processing in complex environments and development of enabling single-cell analysis technologiesR35GM148231 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Savas Tay · 2023 to 2026
$2.7M
Targeting Transcription with Synthetic BiologicsDP2GM128199 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI MOELLERING, RAYMOND E · 2017 to 2017
$2.3M
Predoctoral Training Program in Chemistry and BiologyT32GM144290 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Yamuna Krishnan, Joseph Anthony Piccirilli · 2022 to 2026
$1.6M
Ultra-Sensitive Multiplexed Quantification of Proteins Secreted from Single-Cells - Resubmission 01R01GM127527 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI TAY, SAVAS · 2019 to 2022
$1.6M
Mapping Protein Social Network Dynamics with Photoproximity Profiling PlatformsR01GM145852 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI MOELLERING, RAYMOND E · 2022 to 2025
$1.5M
Single-Cell Protein Activity Profiling in Breast Cancer Cells and TissuesR33CA269094 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI MOELLERING, RAYMOND E · 2022 to 2024
$1.1M
NCI NIH HHS P20 CA233307NCI NIH HHS R33 CA269094NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM128199NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM127527NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM145852NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM148231NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM144290
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein activity state, rather than protein or mRNA abundance, is a biologically regulated and relevant input to many processes in signaling, differentiation, development, and diseases such as cancer. While there are numerous methods to detect and quantify mRNA and protein abundance in biological samples, there are no general approaches to detect and quantify endogenous protein activity with single-cell resolution. Here, we report the development of a chemoproteomic platform, single-cell activity-dependent proximity ligation, which uses automated, microfluidics-based single-cell capture and nanoliter volume manipulations to convert the interactions of family-wide chemical activity probes with native protein targets into multiplexed, amplifiable oligonucleotide barcodes. We demonstrate accurate, reproducible, and multiplexed quantitation of a six-enzyme (Ag-6) panel with known ties to cancer cell aggressiveness directly in single cells. We further identified increased Ag-6 enzyme activity across breast cancer cell lines of increasing metastatic potential, as well as in primary patient-derived tumor cells and organoids from patients with breast cancer.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsNeoplasm MetastasisProteomicsSingle-Cell AnalysisCell Line, TumorFemaleHumans

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PMID39441940
PMCPMC11498211

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