PO.BCS01.12 · 生物信息与计算

一种量子驱动的图谱规模资源,用于研究癌症TME中的代谢图景与异质性

A quantum-enabled atlas-scale resource to study metabolic landscapes and heterogeneity in cancer TME

海报缩略图:一种量子驱动的图谱规模资源,用于研究癌症TME中的代谢图景与异质性
编号 5501 展板 6 时间 4/21 02:00–05:00 区域 Section 4 主讲 Chi Zhang, PhD
分会场 New Software Tools for Data Analysis
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作者与单位 Authors & Affiliations

Yinuo Zhao1, Jiahe Yu2, Min Yang3, Chi Zhang4

1Middlesex School, Concord, MA,2Sierra Canyon School, Chatsworth, CA,3Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR,4Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

摘要 Abstract

中文摘要
代谢网络在癌症中被深刻重塑,以支持不受控的增殖、免疫逃逸和治疗抵抗。尽管目前已有大规模图谱级别的癌症肿瘤微环境(TME)和正常人体组织单细胞RNA测序(scRNA-seq)数据集,但仍缺乏利用这些数据对癌细胞和正常细胞的代谢图景、变化、异质性及交互作用进行系统性、基因组规模刻画的研究。基本通量模式(EFM)代表维持稳态通量所需的最小反应集合,为描述代谢能力提供了合理基础,然而由于可能模式的组合爆炸,在基因组规模网络中识别生物学上可行的EFM是一大瓶颈。我们提出一种量子驱动的框架,利用图谱级别的scRNA-seq数据来推断可能的EFM分布并推导样本特异性代谢通量,其长期目标是构建可扩展的癌症代谢图景资源。EFM发现和通量预测均被建模为在量子退火硬件上求解的二次无约束二值优化(QUBO)问题。通过利用量子设备内在的并行采样能力,我们的方法在化学计量、热力学及癌症特异性生物学约束下高效地探索高维解空间。为处理与肿瘤学相关的基因组规模模型,我们整合了基于张量分解的降维方法,以生成易于处理的QUBO表述,同时保留关键通路结构。在包含多达25个反应的模拟网络上,量子采样稳健地富集了满足化学计量平衡、支持最小性和不可约性的EFM,而结构上无效的模式极少被采样。在施加模拟不同肿瘤情境的样本特异性约束时,高频EFM集合系统性地发生变化,表明该框架无需显式枚举即可捕获条件特异性的通量分布。随后,我们将这一量子驱动策略应用于胰腺癌、前列腺癌和乳腺癌的单细胞图谱,并在基于约束的模型中将这些结果与TCGA bulk RNA-seq整合,以生成一个共享的、可扩展的癌症代谢图景资源。我们证明,该资源可用于绘制反复出现的通路脆弱性、优先筛选代谢干预靶点,并量化肿瘤类型内部及不同肿瘤类型、治疗状态和患者队列之间条件特异性的代谢策略。通过将量子优化与系统生物学相结合,我们的工作为癌症中的个性化代谢建模和假设生成提供了一个实用且可解释的基础。
查看英文原文 English abstract
Metabolic networks are profoundly rewired in cancer, supporting uncontrolled proliferation, immune evasion, and therapy resistance. Although large atlas-level single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) datasets of cancer tumor microenvironments (TMEs) and normal human tissues are now available, there remains no systematic, genome-scale characterization of metabolic landscapes, shifts, heterogeneity, and cross-talk across cancer and normal cells using these data. Elementary flux modes (EFMs), representing the minimal sets of reactions that sustain steady-state flux, provide a principled basis for describing metabolic capabilities, yet identifying biologically feasible EFMs in genome-scale networks is a major bottleneck due to the combinatorial explosion of possible modes. We propose a quantum-enabled framework that leverages atlas-level scRNA-seq data to infer plausible EFM distributions and derive sample-specific metabolic fluxes, with the long-term goal of building a scalable resource of cancer metabolic landscapes. Both EFM discovery and flux prediction are formulated as Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems solved on quantum annealing hardware. By exploiting the intrinsic parallel sampling capabilities of quantum devices, our approach efficiently explores high-dimensional solution spaces under stoichiometric, thermodynamic, and cancer-specific biological constraints. To handle genome-scale models relevant to oncology, we integrate tensor decomposition-based dimensionality reduction to yield tractable QUBO formulations while preserving key pathway structure. On simulated networks with up to 25 reactions, quantum sampling robustly enriches EFMs that satisfy stoichiometric balance, support minimality, and irreducibility, while structurally invalid modes are rarely sampled. When imposing distinct sample-specific constraints mimicking different tumor contexts, the high-frequency EFM sets shift systematically, demonstrating that the framework captures condition-specific flux distributions without explicit enumeration. We then apply this quantum-driven strategy to single-cell atlases of pancreatic, prostate, and breast cancer, and integrate these results with TCGA bulk RNA-seq in constraint-based models to generate a shared, extensible resource of cancer metabolic landscapes. We show that this resource can be used to map recurrent pathway vulnerabilities, prioritize metabolic intervention targets, and quantify condition-specific metabolic strategies within and across tumor types, treatment states, and patient cohorts. By bridging quantum optimization and systems biology, our work provides a practical and interpretable foundation for personalized metabolic modeling and hypothesis generation in cancer.
利益披露 Disclosure
Y. Zhao, None.. J. Yu, None.. C. Zhang, None.

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