TE-SCALE:一个全面的数据库,用于在单细胞分辨率下在人类癌症中探索可移植元素表达
Xini Meng1,2,3, Zhi Nie1,2,3,4, Qifei Wang1,2,3
1China National Center for Bioinformation, Beijing 100101, China.
Nucleic acids research
|November 26, 2025
概括
转移性元素 (TE),通常是沉默的,当调节失调时,可以驱动癌症. TE-SCALE是一个新的数据库,可以对人类癌症中TE表达的单细胞分析,帮助发现生物标志物.
科学领域:
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
- 癌症生物学 癌症生物学
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
背景情况:
- 可转移元素 (TE) 是重复的DNA序列,在基因组进化中至关重要.
- TE失调与癌症发展有关,影响瘤基因激活.
- 现有的单细胞分析由于其重复性,往往省略了TEs,限制了全面的癌症研究.
研究的目的:
- 开发一个系统的资源来探索人类癌症中单细胞可移植元素的动态.
- 创建一个全面的数据库,用于整合性分析和可视化跨不同癌症类型的TE表达.
- 促进用于癌症诊断和治疗的基于TE的新型生物标志物的识别.
主要方法:
- 开发scTEfinder管道用于单细胞TE量化.
- 从330个样本中整合了超过130万个细胞,从20种癌症类型中整合到TE-SCALE数据库中.
- 对差异性TE表达,TE基因共同表达网络分析和功能丰富的分析模块的实施.
主要成果:
- TE-SCALE提供了一个全癌症TE表达图谱,具有多层次探索能力.
- 该数据库可以识别具有潜在临床应用的瘤特异性TE.
- 用户友好的Web界面可方便浏览,搜索,分析和数据下载.
结论:
- TE-SCALE是了解癌症中TE生物学的宝贵资源.
- 该平台有助于解码TE在瘤发生和癌症进展中的作用.
- TE-SCALE加速了TE研究转化为临床应用,包括生物标志物发现和免疫治疗向.
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