GSE171306
Single-cell RNA-seq identification of the cellular molecular characteristics of sporadic bilateral clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Bilateral renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a rare type of this disease and includes familial bilateral and sporadic bilateral RCCs. Studying the cellular molecular characteristics of sporadic bilateral is important to provide a direct guide for clinical treatment. These cellular molecular characteristics can be expressed at the RNA level, especially at the single-cell RNA level. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) was performed on bilateral clear cell RCC (ccRCC). A total of 3,575 and 3,568 high-quality single-cell transcriptome data were captured from the left and right tumour tissues, respectively. Gene characteristics were identified by comparing left and right tumours at the scRNA level. This work presented the complex cellular environment of bilateral ccRCC by scRNA-seq. Single-cell transcriptome analysis revealed high similarity in gene expression among most cell types of bilateral RCCs but significant differences in gene expression among different site tumour cells. Additionally, the potential biological function of different tumour cell types was determined by gene ontology (GO) analysis. The transcriptome characteristics of tumour tissues in different locations at the single-cell transcriptome level were revealed through the scRNA-seq of bilateral sporadic ccRCC. This work provides new insights into the diagnosis and treatment of bilateral RCC. Overall design: Primary kidney samples from 3 patients were used for single cell RNA sequencing by 10X Genomics