Michael K Strasser, David L Gibbs, Philippe Gascard, Joanna Bons, John W Hickey, Christian M Schürch, Yuqi Tan, Sarah Black, Pauline Chu, Alican Ozkan, Nathan Basisty, Veena Sangwan, Jacob Rose, Samah Shah, Sophie Camilleri-Broet, Pierre-Oliver Fiset, Nicolas Bertos, Julie Berube, Haig Djambazian, Rui Li, Spyridon Oikonomopoulos, Daffolyn Rachael Fels-Elliott, Sarah Vernovsky, Elee Shimshoni, Deborah Collyar, Ann Russell, Ioannis Ragoussis, Matthew Stachler, James R Goldenring, Stuart McDonald, Donald E Ingber, Birgit Schilling, Garry P Nolan, Thea D Tlsty, Sui Huang, Lorenzo E Ferri
Esophageal adenocarcinoma arises from Barrett's esophagus, a precancerous metaplastic replacement of squamous by columnar epithelium in response to chronic inflammation. Multi-omics profiling, integrating single-cell transcriptomics, extracellular matrix proteomics, tissue-mechanics and spatial proteomics of 64 samples from 12 patients' paths of progression from squamous epithelium through metaplasia, dysplasia to adenocarcinoma, revealed shared and patient-specific progression characteristics. The classic metaplastic replacement of epithelial cells was paralleled by metaplastic changes in stromal cells, ECM and tissue stiffness...
June 11, 2023: bioRxiv