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Digital decoding tissue microenvironment heterogeneity from spatial proteomics through graph-enhanced transfer

Yuan Li¹, Qian Kong², Zihan Wu³

¹State Key Laboratory of Medical Proteomics and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Functional Proteomics, Department of Chemistry and Research Center for Chemical Biology and Omics Analysis, School of Science and Guangming Advanced Research Institute, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China; AI for Life Sciences Laboratory, Tencent, Shenzhen 518057, China.

|May 27, 2026

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Spatial digital cytometry (Spatial-DC) computationally decodes cell-type-specific protein signatures from spatial proteomics data. This novel framework enhances tissue microenvironment analysis for disease research.

Keywords:

cellular interaction pancreatic cancer single-cell-type resolution spatial proteomics tissue microenvironment transfer learning

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Area of Science:

Proteomics
Systems Biology
Bioinformatics

Background:

Spatial proteomics offers insights into cellular ecosystems and disease mechanisms.
Current limitations include restricted spatial resolution, obscuring cell-type-specific signatures due to mixed cell populations in measured spots.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce spatial digital cytometry (Spatial-DC), a computational framework for resolving single-cell-type proteomic signatures from spatial proteomics data.
To enhance the analysis of tissue microenvironments by enabling cell-type and spatial context resolution.

Main Methods:

Development of Spatial-DC, a graph-enhanced transfer learning framework.
Benchmarking against eight state-of-the-art transcriptomics-based methods.
Application to antibody-based and mass spectrometry (MS)-based spatial proteomics data.

Main Results:

Spatial-DC accurately estimates cell-type composition, outperforming existing transcriptomics-based methods.
Generated refined cell-type distribution maps and reconstructed spatial and cell-type-resolved proteomic profiles.
Identified cell-type-specific spatial interactions linked to tumor outcomes in pancreatic cancer.

Conclusions:

Spatial-DC is a versatile framework for spatial proteomics, enabling multiscale decoding of tissue microenvironments.
The method provides single-cell-type and spatial context resolution for downstream analyses.
Facilitates deeper understanding of cellular ecosystems and disease mechanisms.