CD39 Identifies Tumor-Reactive CD8 T cells in Patients With Lung Cancer

ABSTRACT The repertoire of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) can be vast, and many of these TILs are not endowed with tumor reactivity. While a number of reports have shown that tumor-reactive TILs express CD39, few reports have demonstrated that conversely, CD39 can be leveraged to serve as a proxy of tumor-reactive CD8 T cells. Using single-cell CITE/RNA/TCRseq, we show that CD39+ CD8 T cells in human lung cancers demonstrate transcriptional and proteomic features of exhaustion, tumor reactivity, and clonal expansion. Moreover, TCR cloning revealed that CD39 enriched for tumor-reactive CD8 T cell clones. Flow cytometry of 440 lung cancer specimens revealed that CD39 level on CD8 T cells is only weakly correlated with tumoral features that currently guide lung cancer therapy, such as histology, driver mutation, PD-L1 and tumor mutation burden. PD-1 axis blockade, but not cytotoxic chemotherapy, increased intratumoral CD39+ CD8 T cells. CD39 correlated with PD-1 expression on CD8 T cells and high pre-treatment/early-on-treatment levels were associated with improved clinical outcomes, but not immune-related adverse events, from immune checkpoint blockade therapy. This comprehensive profiling of the clinical, pathological and molecular features highlights the utility of CD39 as a proxy for tumor-reactive CD8 T cells in human lung cancer..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 07. Juni Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

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Chow, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Uddin, Fathema Z. [VerfasserIn]
Mangarin, Levi [VerfasserIn]
Rizvi, Hira [VerfasserIn]
Dobrin, Anton [VerfasserIn]
Tischfield, Sam [VerfasserIn]
Quintanal-Villalonga, Alvaro [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Joseph M. [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Nisargbhai [VerfasserIn]
Allaj, Viola [VerfasserIn]
Manoj, Parvathy [VerfasserIn]
Mattar, Marissa [VerfasserIn]
Meneses, Maximiliano [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Landau, Rebecca [VerfasserIn]
Ward, Mariana [VerfasserIn]
Kulick, Amanda [VerfasserIn]
Kwong, Charlene [VerfasserIn]
Wierzbicki, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
Yavner, Jessica [VerfasserIn]
Chavan, Shweta S. [VerfasserIn]
Farillas, Abigail [VerfasserIn]
Holland, Aliya [VerfasserIn]
Sridhar, Harsha [VerfasserIn]
Ciampricotti, Metamia [VerfasserIn]
Hirschhorn, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Richards, Allison L [VerfasserIn]
Donoghue, Mark T.A. [VerfasserIn]
Heller, Glenn [VerfasserIn]
Klebanoff, Christopher A. [VerfasserIn]
Hellmann, Matthew D. [VerfasserIn]
de Stanchina, Elisa [VerfasserIn]
Sen, Triparna [VerfasserIn]
Wolchok, Jedd D. [VerfasserIn]
Merghoub, Taha [VerfasserIn]
Rudin, Charles M. [VerfasserIn]

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10.1101/2022.01.24.477554

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XBI035098295