文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Sang, Mengmeng ¹ ; Feng, Li ² ; Dong, Ang ³ ; Gragnoli, Claudia ⁵ ; Griffin, Christopher ⁸ ; Wu, Rongling ³ ;

作者机构： 1.Nantong Univ, Dept Immunol, Sch Med, Nantong 226019, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

2.Chinese Acad Fishery Sci, Fisheries Engn Inst, Beijing 100141, Peoples R China

3.Yanqi Lake Beijing Inst Math Sci & Applicat, Beijing 101408, Peoples R China

4.Beijing Forestry Univ, Ctr Computat Biol, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China

5.Penn State Coll Med, Dept Publ Hlth Sci, Hershey, PA 17033 USA

6.Creighton Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Omaha, NE 68124 USA

7.Bios Biotech Multidiagnost Hlth Ctr, Mol Biol Lab, I-00197 Rome, Italy

8.Penn State Univ, Appl Res Lab, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

9.Tsinghua Univ, Yau Math Sci Ctr, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China

关键词： Cell-cell crosstalk; Intratumoral heterogeneity; Extratumoral microenvironment; Allometric scaling law; Evolutionary game theory; Graph theory

期刊名称：PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS （ 影响因子：30.0； 五年影响因子：28.7 ）

ISSN： 0370-1573

年卷期： 2023 年 1029 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： The recent years have witnessed the explosive application of sequencing technologies to study tumor-microenvironment interactions and their role in shaping intratumoral heterogeneity, neoplastic progression and tumor resistance to anticancer drugs. Statistical modeling is an essential tool to decipher the function of cellular interactions from massive amounts of transcriptomic data. However, most available approaches can only capture the existence of cell interconnections, failing to reveal how cells communicate with each other in (bi)directional, signed, and weighted manners. Widely used ligand- receptor signaling analysis can discern pairwise or dyadic cell-cell interactions, but it has little power to characterize the rock-paper-scissors cycle of interdependence among a large number of interacting cells. Here, we introduce an emerging statistical physics theory, derived from the interdisciplinary cross-pollination of ecosystem theory, allometric scaling law, evolutionary game theory, predator-prey theory, and graph theory. This new theory, coined quasi-dynamic game-graph theory (qdGGT), is formulated as generalized Lotka-Volterra predator-prey equations, allowing cell-cell crosstalk networks across any level of organizational space to be inferred from any type of genomic data with any dimension. qdGGT can visualize and interrogate how genes reciprocally telegraph signals among cells from different biogeographical locations and how this process orchestrates tumor processes. We demonstrate the application of qdGGT to identify genes that drive intercellular cooperation or competition and chart mechanistic cell-cell interaction networks that mediate the tumor-microenvironment crosstalk. & COPY; 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.