Unsupervised Clustering Reveals Noncanonical Myeloid Cell Subsets in the Brain Tumor Microenvironment
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ABSTRACT: The tumor immune microenvironment (TiME) of human central nervous system (CNS) tumors remains to be comprehensively deciphered. Here, we employed flow cytometry and RNA sequencing analysis via data-driven approaches to dissect a diverse TiME and uncover noncanonical immune cell types in human CNS tumors. Myeloid subsets comprised classical microglia, monocyte-derived macrophages, neutrophils, and two noncanonical myeloid subsets: CD3+ myeloids and CD19+ myeloids. T lymphocyte subsets included double-negative (CD4- CD8-) T cells (DNTs). Noncanonical myeloids and DNTs were validated with an independent dataset, suggesting that our DNT phenotype represents γδ T cells. While the proportions of classical myeloids agreed with reported malignancy type-associated TiMEs, unexpectedly high lymphocyte frequencies were detected in gliosarcoma, which also showed a unique expression pattern of immune-related genes. Our findings highlight the potential of data-driven approaches in resolving CNS TiME and reveal the mosaic of immune cell types constituting TiME.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE251900 | GEO | 2025/01/08
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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