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Tackling Tumour Cell Heterogeneity at the Super-Resolution Level in Human Colorectal Cancer Tissue
SIMPLE SUMMARY: Tumour cell heterogeneity is the most fundamental problem in cancer diagnosis and therapy. Micro-diagnostic technologies able to differentiate the heterogeneous molecular, especially metastatic, potential of single cells or cell clones already within early primary tumours of carcinom...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8345115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34359592 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers13153692 |
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author | Lang, Fabian Contreras-Gerenas, María F. Gelléri, Márton Neumann, Jan Kröger, Ole Sadlo, Filip Berniak, Krzysztof Marx, Alexander Cremer, Christoph Wagenknecht, Hans-Achim Allgayer, Heike |
author_facet | Lang, Fabian Contreras-Gerenas, María F. Gelléri, Márton Neumann, Jan Kröger, Ole Sadlo, Filip Berniak, Krzysztof Marx, Alexander Cremer, Christoph Wagenknecht, Hans-Achim Allgayer, Heike |
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description | SIMPLE SUMMARY: Tumour cell heterogeneity is the most fundamental problem in cancer diagnosis and therapy. Micro-diagnostic technologies able to differentiate the heterogeneous molecular, especially metastatic, potential of single cells or cell clones already within early primary tumours of carcinoma patients would be of utmost importance. Single molecule localisation microscopy (SMLM) has recently allowed the imaging of subcellular features at the nanoscale. However, the technology has mostly been limited to cultured cell lines only. We introduce a first-in-field approach for quantitative SMLM-analysis of chromatin nanostructure in individual cells in resected, routine-pathology colorectal carcinoma patient tissue sections, illustrating, as a first example, changes in nuclear chromatin nanostructure and microRNA intracellular distribution within carcinoma cells as opposed to normal cells, chromatin accessibility and microRNAs having been shown to be critical in gene regulation and metastasis. We believe this technology to have an enormous potential for future differential diagnosis between individual cells in the tissue context. ABSTRACT: Tumour cell heterogeneity, and its early individual diagnosis, is one of the most fundamental problems in cancer diagnosis and therapy. Single molecule localisation microscopy (SMLM) resolves subcellular features but has been limited to cultured cell lines only. Since nuclear chromatin architecture and microRNAs are critical in metastasis, we introduce a first-in-field approach for quantitative SMLM-analysis of chromatin nanostructure in individual cells in resected, routine-pathology colorectal carcinoma (CRC) patient tissue sections. Chromatin density profiles proved to differ for cells in normal and carcinoma colorectal tissues. In tumour sections, nuclear size and chromatin compaction percentages were significantly different in carcinoma versus normal epithelial and other cells of colorectal tissue. SMLM analysis in nuclei from normal colorectal tissue revealed abrupt changes in chromatin density profiles at the nanoscale, features not detected by conventional widefield microscopy. SMLM for microRNAs relevant for metastasis was achieved in colorectal cancer tissue at the nuclear level. Super-resolution microscopy with quantitative image evaluation algorithms provide powerful tools to analyse chromatin nanostructure and microRNAs of individual cells from normal and tumour tissue at the nanoscale. Our new perspectives improve the differential diagnosis of normal and (metastatically relevant) tumour cells at the single-cell level within the heterogeneity of primary tumours of patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-83451152021-08-07 Tackling Tumour Cell Heterogeneity at the Super-Resolution Level in Human Colorectal Cancer Tissue Lang, Fabian Contreras-Gerenas, María F. Gelléri, Márton Neumann, Jan Kröger, Ole Sadlo, Filip Berniak, Krzysztof Marx, Alexander Cremer, Christoph Wagenknecht, Hans-Achim Allgayer, Heike Cancers (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: Tumour cell heterogeneity is the most fundamental problem in cancer diagnosis and therapy. Micro-diagnostic technologies able to differentiate the heterogeneous molecular, especially metastatic, potential of single cells or cell clones already within early primary tumours of carcinoma patients would be of utmost importance. Single molecule localisation microscopy (SMLM) has recently allowed the imaging of subcellular features at the nanoscale. However, the technology has mostly been limited to cultured cell lines only. We introduce a first-in-field approach for quantitative SMLM-analysis of chromatin nanostructure in individual cells in resected, routine-pathology colorectal carcinoma patient tissue sections, illustrating, as a first example, changes in nuclear chromatin nanostructure and microRNA intracellular distribution within carcinoma cells as opposed to normal cells, chromatin accessibility and microRNAs having been shown to be critical in gene regulation and metastasis. We believe this technology to have an enormous potential for future differential diagnosis between individual cells in the tissue context. ABSTRACT: Tumour cell heterogeneity, and its early individual diagnosis, is one of the most fundamental problems in cancer diagnosis and therapy. Single molecule localisation microscopy (SMLM) resolves subcellular features but has been limited to cultured cell lines only. Since nuclear chromatin architecture and microRNAs are critical in metastasis, we introduce a first-in-field approach for quantitative SMLM-analysis of chromatin nanostructure in individual cells in resected, routine-pathology colorectal carcinoma (CRC) patient tissue sections. Chromatin density profiles proved to differ for cells in normal and carcinoma colorectal tissues. In tumour sections, nuclear size and chromatin compaction percentages were significantly different in carcinoma versus normal epithelial and other cells of colorectal tissue. SMLM analysis in nuclei from normal colorectal tissue revealed abrupt changes in chromatin density profiles at the nanoscale, features not detected by conventional widefield microscopy. SMLM for microRNAs relevant for metastasis was achieved in colorectal cancer tissue at the nuclear level. Super-resolution microscopy with quantitative image evaluation algorithms provide powerful tools to analyse chromatin nanostructure and microRNAs of individual cells from normal and tumour tissue at the nanoscale. Our new perspectives improve the differential diagnosis of normal and (metastatically relevant) tumour cells at the single-cell level within the heterogeneity of primary tumours of patients. MDPI 2021-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8345115/ /pubmed/34359592 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers13153692 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lang, Fabian Contreras-Gerenas, María F. Gelléri, Márton Neumann, Jan Kröger, Ole Sadlo, Filip Berniak, Krzysztof Marx, Alexander Cremer, Christoph Wagenknecht, Hans-Achim Allgayer, Heike Tackling Tumour Cell Heterogeneity at the Super-Resolution Level in Human Colorectal Cancer Tissue |
title | Tackling Tumour Cell Heterogeneity at the Super-Resolution Level in Human Colorectal Cancer Tissue |
title_full | Tackling Tumour Cell Heterogeneity at the Super-Resolution Level in Human Colorectal Cancer Tissue |
title_fullStr | Tackling Tumour Cell Heterogeneity at the Super-Resolution Level in Human Colorectal Cancer Tissue |
title_full_unstemmed | Tackling Tumour Cell Heterogeneity at the Super-Resolution Level in Human Colorectal Cancer Tissue |
title_short | Tackling Tumour Cell Heterogeneity at the Super-Resolution Level in Human Colorectal Cancer Tissue |
title_sort | tackling tumour cell heterogeneity at the super-resolution level in human colorectal cancer tissue |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8345115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34359592 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers13153692 |
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