Phased differentiation of γδ T and T CD8 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes revealed by single-cell transcriptomics of human cancers

Autor: Juan-Pablo Cerapio, Marion Perrier, Camille-Charlotte Balança, Pauline Gravelle, Fréderic Pont, Christel Devaud, Don-Marc Franchini, Virginie Féliu, Marie Tosolini, Carine Valle, Fréderic Lopez, Anne Quillet-Mary, Loic Ysebaert, Alejandra Martinez, Jean Pierre Delord, Maha Ayyoub, Camille Laurent, Jean-Jacques Fournie
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: OncoImmunology, Vol 10, Iss 1 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2162-402X
2162402X
DOI: 10.1080/2162402X.2021.1939518
Popis: γδ T lymphocytes diverge from conventional T CD8 lymphocytes for ontogeny, homing, and antigen specificity, but whether their differentiation in tumors also deviates was unknown. Using innovative analyses of our original and ~150 published single-cell RNA sequencing datasets validated by phenotyping of human tumors and murine models, here we present the first high-resolution view of human γδ T cell differentiation in cancer. While γδ T lymphocytes prominently encompass TCRVγ9 cells more differentiated than T CD8 in healthy donor’s blood, a different scenario is unveiled in tumors. Solid tumors and lymphomas are infiltrated by a majority of TCRVγnon9 γδ T cells which are quantitatively correlated and remarkably aligned with T CD8 for differentiation, exhaustion, gene expression profile, and response to immune checkpoint therapy. This cancer-wide association is critical for developing cancer immunotherapies.
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