Single cell-derived spheroids capture the self-renewing subpopulations of metastatic ovarian cancer

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Abstract

High Grade Serous Ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is a major unmet need in oncology, due to its precocious dissemination and the lack of meaningful human models for the investigation of disease pathogenesis in a patient-specific manner. To overcome this roadblock, we present a new method to isolate and grow single cells directly from patients’ metastatic ascites, establishing the conditions for propagating them as 3D cultures that we refer to as single cell-derived metastatic ovarian cancer spheroids (sMOCS). By single cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) we define the cellular composition of metastatic ascites and trace its propagation in 2D and 3D culture paradigms, finding that sMOCS retain and amplify key subpopulations from the original patients’ samples and recapitulate features of the original metastasis that do not emerge from classical 2D culture, including retention of individual patients’ specificities. By enabling the enrichment of uniquely informative cell subpopulations from HGSOC metastasis and the clonal interrogation of their diversity at the functional and molecular level, this method provides a powerful instrument for precision oncology in ovarian cancer.

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Velletri, T., Villa, C. E., Cilli, D., Barzaghi, B., Lo Riso, P., Lupia, M., … Testa, G. (2022). Single cell-derived spheroids capture the self-renewing subpopulations of metastatic ovarian cancer. Cell Death and Differentiation, 29(3), 614–626. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41418-021-00878-w

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