The intrarenal landscape of T cell receptor repertoire in clear cell renal cell cancer

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BACKGROUND: Clear cell renal cell cancer (ccRCC) is accompanied by T-cell infiltration. In this study, we sought to determine the difference in T-cell infiltration and the T-cell receptor (TCR) immune repertoire between ccRCC and peritumour tissue.

METHODS: T-cell infiltration was examined using immunohistochemistry (IHC) and haematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining. The chi-squared test and Pearson correlation analysis were applied to evaluate the relationship between clinical traits and CD3, CD4, and CD8 expression. Immune repertoire sequencing (IR-Seq) was used to describe the profile of the TCR repertoire.

RESULTS: The adjacent tissue showed increased expression of CD3, CD4 and CD8 compared with ccRCC tissue (PCD3 = 0.033; PCD4 = 0.014; PCD8 = 0.004). Indicated CD3+ T-cell density in ccRCC tissue was positively correlated with that in peritumour tissue (P = 0.010, r = 0.514), which implied the T cells in peritumour tissue directly infect the number of cells infiltrating in ccRCC tissue. Moreover, there was a positive correlation between Vimentin expression and indicated positive T-cell marker in ccRCC tissue (PCD3 = 0.035; PCD4 = 0.020; PCD8 = 0.027). Advanced stage revealed less CD4+ T-cell infiltration in ccRCC tissue (PCD4 = 0.023). The results from IR-Seq revealed an obvious increase in VJ and VDJ segment usage, as well as higher complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) amino acid (aa) clonotypes in ccRCC. The matched antigen recognized by the TCR of ccRCC may be potential targets.

CONCLUSIONS: The current study collectively demonstrates diminished T-cell infiltration and increased CDR3 aa diversity in ccRCC, which may be associated with immunotherapeutic targets for ccRCC patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Journal of translational medicine - 20(2022), 1 vom: 03. Dez., Seite 558

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Qian [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Chao [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Zhiyuan [VerfasserIn]
Shao, Chen [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yujie [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Nan [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Yanxia [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Qing [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Kejia [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Amino Acids
CD3 Complex
Clear cell renal cell cancer
Complementarity Determining Regions
Immune repertoire
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
T-cell infiltration
T-cell receptor

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 06.12.2022

Date Revised 21.12.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12967-022-03771-3

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349757712