Single cell gene expression profiling of slow cycling and actively dividing mouse glioblastoma (GBM) cells isolated based on H2B-GFP label retention.

A slow cycling, dormant cell state is thought to contribute to the therapeutic resistance of GBM tumour cells, yet not much is known about the biology of this slow-cycling cell population in GBM. By using somatic mouse model of GBM, combined with the inducible H2B-GFP label retention system, we isolated dormant tumour cells from their in vivo niches, and characterised them by single cell RNA sequencing. Overall design: Mouse GBM cells isolated by Fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) according to the presence or absence of H2B-GFP signal and analyzed by single cell RNA Sequencing