PMID- 37105033 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230524 LR - 20230524 IS - 1808-8686 (Electronic) IS - 1808-8694 (Print) IS - 1808-8686 (Linking) VI - 89 IP - 3 DP - 2023 May-Jun TI - Exploration of the heterogeneity and interaction of epithelial cells and NK/T-cells in Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma based on single-cell RNA sequencing data. PG - 393-400 LID - S1808-8694(23)00010-1 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.bjorl.2023.02.003 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVES: We aimed to explore the heterogeneity and differentiation trajectories of epithelial cells and NK/T-cells in Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (LSCC). METHODS: We downloaded the GSE150321 data set containing LSCC01 and LSCC02 samples single cell RNA data from Gene Expression Omnibus. The UMAP analysis was performed to identify the cell subpopulations and cell locations of subpopulations. Seurat package was used to analyze the differential expression of genes. The function of differential expression genes was analyzed using DAVID database. The monocle2 package was used to analyze differentiation trajectories. We used the CellChat package to observe the signaling pathways and ligand-receptor pairs for epithelial cells and NK/T-cells. RESULTS: All the LSCC cells were divided into 16 subpopulation that included 7 epithelial cell subsets, 3 T-cell subsets. The function analysis indicated that epithelial cells and NK/T-cells mainly participated in different process, such as cell cycle, immune response, and cell migration. Then, the results of differentiation trajectory indicated that the ability of migration, and the activation of the immune system increases, while the ability of apoptosis, and glucose metabolic process decreases as pseudotime. Migration-related epithelial cells act on all T-cells via the CNTN2-CNTN2 ligand-receptor pair, which suggested that CNTN2 might be an important biomarker for regulating migration of epithelial cells. CONCLUSIONS: Our study characterized the heterogeneity of LSCC, which provided novel insights into LSCC and identified a new mechanism and target for clinical LSCC threapies. EVIDENCE: IV. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 Associacao Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cervico-Facial. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U. All rights reserved. FAU - Liu, Yanan AU - Liu Y AD - Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Harbin Institute of Technology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, PR China. FAU - Gao, Zhiguang AU - Gao Z AD - Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Harbin Institute of Technology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, PR China. FAU - Peng, Cheng AU - Peng C AD - Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Harbin Institute of Technology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, PR China. FAU - Jiang, Xingli AU - Jiang X AD - Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Harbin Institute of Technology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, PR China. Electronic address: jxl20210517@163.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230214 PL - Brazil TA - Braz J Otorhinolaryngol JT - Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngology JID - 101207337 RN - 0 (MicroRNAs) RN - 0 (Ligands) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck/genetics MH - *MicroRNAs/genetics/metabolism MH - *Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/genetics/pathology MH - *Laryngeal Neoplasms/pathology MH - Ligands MH - *Head and Neck Neoplasms MH - Epithelial Cells MH - Sequence Analysis, RNA MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic MH - Cell Proliferation PMC - PMC10164759 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Epithelial cells OT - Heterogeneity OT - Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma OT - NK/T-cells EDAT- 2023/04/28 00:42 MHDA- 2023/05/24 06:42 PMCR- 2023/02/14 CRDT- 2023/04/27 18:07 PHST- 2023/01/30 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/02/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/05/24 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/04/28 00:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/04/27 18:07 [entrez] PHST- 2023/02/14 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S1808-8694(23)00010-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bjorl.2023.02.003 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2023 May-Jun;89(3):393-400. doi: 10.1016/j.bjorl.2023.02.003. Epub 2023 Feb 14.