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T cell receptor sequencing of early-stage breast cancer tumors identifies altered clonal structure of the T cell repertoire
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Beausang, John F. Wheeler, Amanda J. Chan, Natalie Hoi Yan Hanft, Violet R. Dirbas, Frederick M. Jeffrey, Stefanie S. Quake, Stephen R. |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | Tumor-infiltrating T cells play an important role in many cancers, and can improve prognosis and yield therapeutic targets. We characterized T cells infiltrating both breast cancer tumors and the surrounding normal breast tissue to identify T cells specific to each, as well as their abundance in peripheral blood. Using immune profiling of the T cell beta-chain repertoire in 16 patients with early-stage breast cancer, we show that the clonal structure of the tumor is significantly different from adjacent breast tissue, with the tumor containing ∼2.5-fold greater density of T cells and higher clonality compared with normal breast. The clonal structure of T cells in blood and normal breast is more similar than between blood and tumor, and could be used to distinguish tumor from normal breast tissue in 14 of 16 patients. Many T cell sequences overlap between tissue and blood from the same patient, including ∼50% of T cells between tumor and normal breast. Both tumor and normal breast contain high-abundance "enriched" sequences that are absent or of low abundance in the other tissue. Many of these T cells are either not detected or detected with very low frequency in the blood, suggesting the existence of separate compartments of T cells in both tumor and normal breast. Enriched T cell sequences are typically unique to each patient, but a subset is shared between many different patients. We show that many of these are commonly generated sequences, and thus unlikely to play an important role in the tumor microenvironment. |
| Starting Page | E10409 |
| Ending Page | E10417 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.pnas.org/content/114/48/E10409.full.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 29138313v1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713863114 |
| DOI | 10.1073/pnas.1713863114 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
| Volume Number | 114 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Anatomical compartments Cellular Phone Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Clone Early-Stage Breast Carcinoma Infiltration Leukemia, B-Cell Malignant Neoplasms Mammary Gland Parenchyma Mammary Neoplasms Patients Subgroup T-Lymphocyte Tumor Microenvironment clonality (genetic analysis) peripheral blood |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
