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Disseminated tumor cell of colorectal cancer adopt the wound healing program of epidermal keratinocyte [RNA-seq]

GSE270765 Homo sapiens (human) RNA-seq (gene expression) 17 samples Submitted 2026/03/17 Platform GPL24676Platform GPL21697
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · human · 17 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Topic
Colorectal cancerThis series is part of our curated briefing on it.
Samples
17 samples: 13 distinct titles, 4 of them repeatedGroups 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.
Summary (written by the submitters)
Disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) are a critical cell population in the metastasis process, and understanding their features is essential for the development of cancer treatment. We show that DTCs of colorectal cancer (CRC) transiently adopted the cellular state resembling to the activated epidermal keratinocyte during wound healing. Using the orthotropic transplantation of patient derived organoids (PDOs), we demonstrated that collective migrating cell clusters in primary site did not contain cancer stem cells but contained cells expressing wound-inducible keratins.
Read the full summary ↓
Mechanistically, inhibition of EZH2 methyltransferase and activation of YAP signaling synergistically promoted DTC phenotype and potentiated dissemination to the distant organs. Collectively, these observations demonstrated that CRC cells alter the cellular hierarchy and adopt re-epithelization program resembling to the tissue repair process to generate DTCs.
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 GSE270765_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: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1128132 and SRA study SRP516056. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
13 distinct titles, 4 of them repeated
HCT26-1T, control, duplicate ×2 HCT26-1T, PY-60, duplicate ×2 HCT26-1T, GSK126, duplicate ×2 HCT26-1T, GSK126+PY-60, duplicate ×2

How we read this: Read from 17 sample titles: 13 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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