Marco Breinig, Artem Lomakin, Elyas Heidari, Michael Ritter, Gleb Rukhovich, Lio Böse, Luise Butthof, Lena Wendler-Link, Hendrik Wiethoff, Tanja Poth, Felix Sahm, Peter Schirmacher, Oliver Stegle, Moritz Gerstung, Darjus F. Tschaharganeh
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Abstract
Advancing spatially resolved in vivo functional genomes will link complex genetic alterations prevalent in cancer to critical disease phenotypes within tumour ecosystems. To this end, we developed PERTURB-CAST, a method to streamline the identification of perturbations at the tissue level. By adapting RNA-templated ligation probes, PERTURB-CAST leverages commercial 10X Visium spatial transcriptomics to integrate perturbation mapping with transcriptome-wide phenotyping in the same tissue section using a widely available single-readout platform. In addition, we present CHOCOLAT-G2P, a scalable framework designed to study higher-order combinatorial perturbations that mimic tumour heterogeneity. We apply it to investigate tissue-level phenotypic effects of combinatorial perturbations that induce autochthonous mosaic liver tumours.
期刊介绍:
Nature Biomedical Engineering is an online-only monthly journal that was launched in January 2017. It aims to publish original research, reviews, and commentary focusing on applied biomedicine and health technology. The journal targets a diverse audience, including life scientists who are involved in developing experimental or computational systems and methods to enhance our understanding of human physiology. It also covers biomedical researchers and engineers who are engaged in designing or optimizing therapies, assays, devices, or procedures for diagnosing or treating diseases. Additionally, clinicians, who make use of research outputs to evaluate patient health or administer therapy in various clinical settings and healthcare contexts, are also part of the target audience.