Subcellular spatially resolved gene neighborhood networks in single cells.
Subcellular spatially resolved gene neighborhood networks in single cells.
复制标题
DOI:
10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100476
复制
发表时间:
2023-05-22
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Image-based spatial omics methods such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) generate molecular profiles of single cells at single-molecule resolution. Current spatial transcriptomics methods focus on the distribution of single genes. However, the spatial proximity of RNA transcripts can play an important role in cellular function. We demonstrate a spatially resolved gene neighborhood network (spaGNN) pipeline for the analysis of subcellular gene proximity relationships. In spaGNN, machine-learning-based clustering of subcellular spatial transcriptomics data yields subcellular density classes of multiplexed transcript features. The nearest-neighbor analysis produces heterogeneous gene proximity maps in distinct subcellular regions. We illustrate the cell-type-distinguishing capability of spaGNN using multiplexed error-robust FISH data of fibroblast and U2-OS cells and sequential FISH data of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), revealing tissue-source-specific MSC transcriptomics and spatial distribution characteristics. Overall, the spaGNN approach expands the spatial features that can be used for cell-type classification tasks. spaGNN detects the hierarchy of gene proximity relationships Clustering algorithm identifies gene neighbors in subcellular patches Nearest neighborhood analysis reveals heterogeneous local gene proximity Gene proximity relationship outperforms gene expression in cell classification Spatially resolved transcriptomic technologies such as multiplexed error-robust fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and sequential FISH generate high-dimensional datasets that reflect the organization of cells within tissues but also the organization of molecules within cells. We sought to develop an analysis method for inferring subcellular molecular interaction networks from image-based spatial omics data. This algorithm quantifies the physical proximity of RNA molecules when they are spatially located within the nearest neighborhood distances. Spatially resolved gene neighborhoods are used to generate networks that are distinct at different parts of a single cell. Decoding subcellular gene neighborhood networks enables downstream tasks such as cell classification better than overall gene expression per cell, thus expanding the use of subcellular spatial features for omics analysis. Fang et al. developed the spaGNN pipeline to extract gene proximity relationships from subcellular spatial transcriptomics data. The algorithm detects the proximity of genes in subcellular compartments while constructing gene neighborhood networks. The gene spatial proximity relationships outperform gene expression in cell classification.
影响因子:
4.3
作者:
Puniyani K;Xing EP
通讯作者:
Xing EP