Gene features of tumor-specific T cells relevant to immunotherapy, targeted therapy and chemotherapy in lung cancer

© 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd..

1 Background: In lung cancer, the use of small-molecule inhibitors, chemotherapy and immunotherapy has led to unprecedented survival benefits in selected patients. Considering most patients will experience a relapse within a short period of time due to single drug resistance, combination therapy is also particularly important to improve patient prognosis. Therefore, more robust biomarkers to predict responses to immunotherapy, targeted therapy, chemotherapy and rationally drug combination therapies may be helpful in clinical treatment choices.

2 Methods: We defined tumor-specific T cells (TSTs) and their features (TSTGs) by single-cell RNA sequencing. We applied LASSO regression to filter out the most survival-relevant TSTGs to form the Tumor-specific T cell score (TSTS). Immunological characteristics, enriched pathways, and mutation were evaluated in high- and low TSTS groups.

3 Results: We identified six clusters of T cells as TSTs in lung cancer, and four most robust genes from 9 feature genes expressed only on tumor-specific T cells were screened to construct a tumor-specific T cells score (TSTS). TSTS was positively correlated with immune infiltration and angiogenesis and negatively correlated with malignant cell proliferation. Moreover, potential vascular-immune crosstalk in lung cancer provides the theoretical basis for combined anti-angiogenic and immunotherapy. Noticeable, patients in high TSTS had better response to ICB and targeted therapy and patients in the low TSTS group often benefit from chemotherapy.

4 Conclusion: The proposed TSTS is a promising indicator to predict immunotherapy, targeted therapy and chemotherapy responses in lung cancer patients for helping clinical treatment choices.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Heliyon - 10(2024), 7 vom: 15. Apr., Seite e28374

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Luo, Ziwei [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xuefei [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Lize [VerfasserIn]
Qin, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Zha, Qiongfang [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yali [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Combination therapies
Immune infiltration
Immunotherapy
Journal Article
Lung cancer
Tumor-specific T cell

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Date Revised 10.04.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28374

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NLM370802306