Construction of TME and Identification of crosstalk between malignant cells and macrophages by SPP1 in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Autor: Liu L; Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road No.79, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310003, China., Zhang R; Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road No.79, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310003, China., Deng J; Department of Pathology, Key Laboratory of Disease Proteomics of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China.; Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China., Dai X; Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road No.79, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310003, China., Zhu X; Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road No.79, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310003, China., Fu Q; Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road No.79, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310003, China., Zhang H; Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road No.79, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310003, China., Tong Z; Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road No.79, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310003, China., Zhao P; Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road No.79, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310003, China., Fang W; Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road No.79, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310003, China., Zheng Y; Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road No.79, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310003, China. oncologist@zju.edu.cn.; Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Drug Evaluation and Clinical Research, Hangzhou, China. oncologist@zju.edu.cn., Bao X; Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road No.79, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310003, China. baoxuanwen@gmail.com.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII [Cancer Immunol Immunother] 2022 Jan; Vol. 71 (1), pp. 121-136. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 May 24.
DOI: 10.1007/s00262-021-02967-8
Abstrakt: Liver cancer accounts for 6% of all malignancies causing death worldwide, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common histological type. HCC is a heterogeneous cancer, but how the tumour microenvironment (TME) of HCC contributes to the progression of HCC remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the immune microenvironment by multiomics analysis. The tumour immune infiltration characteristics of HCC were determined at the genomic, epigenetic, bulk transcriptome and single-cell levels by data from The Cancer Genome Atlas portal and the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). An epigenetic immune-related scoring system (EIRS) was developed to stratify patients with poor prognosis. SPP1, one gene in the EIRS system, was identified as an immune-related predictor of poor survival in HCC patients. Through receptor-ligand pair analysis in single-cell RNA-seq, SPP1 was indicated to mediate the crosstalk between HCC cells and macrophages via SPP1-CD44 and SPP1-PTGER4 association. In vitro experiments further validate SPP1 can trigger the polarization of macrophages to M2-phenotype tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs).
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Databáze: MEDLINE