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Characterizing resistant cellular states in nasopharyngeal carcinoma during EBV lytic induction

GSE266679 Homo sapiens (human) Single-cell RNA-seq 10 samples Submitted 2025/03/20 Platform GPL18573Platform GPL24676
At a glance

Single-cell RNA-seq · human · 10 samples

What it is
Single-cell RNA-seqGene activity measured in thousands of individual cells, so cell types can be told apart. Read from the summary: GEO's own type field only says 'expression profiling by sequencing', so confirm it in the paper.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Topic
Nasopharyngeal carcinomaThis series is part of our curated briefing on it.
Samples
10 samples: 10 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groupsGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
Characterizing resistant cellular states in nasopharyngeal carcinoma during EBV lytic inductionOncogene · 2025
Summary (written by the submitters)
The pervasive occurrence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is intricately linked to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, making EBV and its associated pathways promising therapeutic targets for NPC and other EBV-related cancers. Lytic induction therapy, an emerging virus-targeted therapeutic strategy, capitalizes on the presence of EBV in tumor cells to specifically induce cytotoxicity against EBV-associated malignancies.
Read the full summary ↓
Despite the expanding repertoire of compounds designed to induce EBV lytic reactivation, achieving universal induction across all infected cells remains elusive. The inherent heterogeneity of tumor cells likely contributes to this variability. In this study, we used a recently generated EBV-positive NPC cell line, named NPC43, as the in vitro model for NPC, and employed single-cell transcriptomics to delineate the diverse responses of NPC43 cells to lytic induction of EBV. Our longitudinal monitoring revealed a distinctive lytic induction non-responsive cellular state characterized by elevated expression of SOX2 and NTRK2. Cells in this state exhibit phenotypic similarities to cancer stem cells (CSCs), and we verified the roles of SOX2 and NTRK2 in manifesting these phenotypes. This discovery underscores a limitation in lytic induction efficacy, suggesting that not all tumor cells are susceptible to this treatment, highlighting the importance of integrating lytic induction with other targeted approaches during therapy.
Published in
Characterizing resistant cellular states in nasopharyngeal carcinoma during EBV lytic induction
Wang X, Yu L, Zhou X et al. · Oncogene 2025 · PMID 40133476 · doi:10.1038/s41388-025-03341-z
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE266679_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: Single-cell studies usually ship their counts as 10x files (matrix.mtx, barcodes.tsv, features.tsv), an .h5 file, or an .rds / .h5ad object that Seurat or Scanpy can open. Look for those among the supplementary files.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1108257 and SRA study SRP505924. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
10 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groups

Any grouping that defines a comparison lives in the sample characteristics, which GEO records separately from the titles.

How we read this: Read from 10 sample titles: 10 distinct titles with little repetition. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

Samples in this study
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