Yutaro Mori, Yoshie Okimoto, Hiroaki Sakai, Yusuke Kanda, Hirokazu Ohata, Daisuke Shiokawa, Mikiko Suzuki, Hiroshi Yoshida, Haruka Ueda, Tomoyuki Sekizuka, Ryo Tamura, Kaoru Yamawaki, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Raul Nicolas Mateos, Yuichi Shiraishi, Yasushi Yatabe, Akinobu Hamada, Kosuke Yoshihara, Takayuki Enomoto, Koji Okamoto
Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) is a gynecological cancer with a dismal prognosis; however, the mechanism underlying OCCC chemoresistance is not well understood. To explore the intracellular networks associated with the chemoresistance, we analyze surgical specimens by performing integrative analyses that combine single-cell analyses and spatial transcriptomics. We find that a chemoresistant OCCC subpopulation with elevated HIF activity localizes mainly in areas populated by cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) with a myofibroblastic phenotype, which is corroborated by quantitative immunostaining...
April 23, 2024: Cell reports medicine