Single-Cell Map of Diverse Immune Phenotypes in the Metastatic Brain Tumor Microenvironment of Non Small Cell Lung Cancer and triple negative breast cancer
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ABSTRACT: To shed light on the complexity of tumor-infiltrating immune cells in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients and triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients with a metastatic brain tumor, we performed massively-parallel single-cell RNA sequencing on 12,196 cells,including 2,012 myeloid cells from 3 surgically removed brain lesions of treatment-naïve NSCLC patients, as well as 6,000 cells from brain lesion of one triple negative breast cancer patient. We found a lack of T lymphocyte infiltration and activation, as well as the vast expansion of tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) in the brain lesions of NSCLC and breast cancer patients. We identified a unique alternative activation (M2) gene expression pattern of the TAM in the brain metastasis and a lack of known T cell co-stimulator expression. Accumulation of M2 polarized TAM may, therefore, cause the comprised anti-tumor T cell response in metastatic brain lesions.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE143423 | GEO | 2020/01/11
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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