Project description:Exhaustion markers are expressed by T lymphocytes in Follicular Lymphoma (FL). Through these, TIM-3 has been recently identified as a poor pronostic factor when expressed by FL CD4+ T cells. Before this study, there was no molecular characterization of unstimulated CD8+ T cells, expressing - or not - TIM-3. We used microarrays to compare the global gene expression profile between CD8+TIM-3+ T cells and CD8+TIM-3- T cells freshly sorted from follicular lymphoma biopsies. Abstract from the associated publication: Up-regulation of T-cell immunoglobulin-3 (TIM-3) has been associated with negative regulation of the immune response in chronic infection and cancer, including lymphoma. Here, we investigated the possible correlation between TIM-3 expression by ex vivo cytotoxic T cells (CTL) from follicular lymphoma (FL) biopsies and their functional unresponsiveness that could limit the favorable impact of CTL on disease progression. We report a high percentage of CD8+TIM-3+ T cells in lymph nodes of FL patients. When compared to their CD8+TIM-3- counterparts, CD8+TIM-3+ T cells exhibited defective cytokine production following TCR engagement. Furthermore CD8+TIM-3+ T cells display ex vivo markers of lytic granule release and remain unresponsive to further TCR-induced activation of the lytic machinery. Although confocal microscopy showed that TIM-3 expression on CD8+ T cells correlated with minor alterations of immunological synapse, a selective reduction of ERK signaling in CD8+TIM-3+ T cells was observed by phospho-flow analysis. Finally, short relapse free survival despite rituximab(R)-chemotherapy was observed in patients with high content of TIM-3+ cells and a poor infiltrate of granzyme B+ T cells in FL lymph nodes. Together, our data indicate that, besides selective TCR early signaling defects, TIM-3 expression correlates with unresponsiveness of ex vivo CD8+ T cells in FL. They show that scores based on the combination of exhaustion and cytolytic markers in FL microenvironment might be instrumental to identify patients at early risk of relapses following R-chemotherapy.
Project description:Angiogenesis plays a key role in tumor metastasis. Many genes may act in this process including formation of vessels, immune evasion,etc. Different gene expression profiles between lymphoma endothelium cells and reactive lymph node-derived endothelium cells may uncover these genes. And intensive mechanism researches on such key genes may explain the mechanisim of tumor-specific angiogenesis and help to explore effective treatment strategies to prevent/reverse tumor metastasis. We use microarrays to detail gene expression profiles of human lymphoma endothelium and reactive lymph node-derived endothelium. Lymph nodes were taken from surgery samples of cases pathologically diagnosed DLBCL (diffuse large B-cell lymphoma), PTL (peripheral T cell lymphoma) and reactive lymph nodes. The pure endothelium cells were isolated by LCM after immunohistochemical staining of CD34. We found Tim-3 was preferentially expressed on lymphoma-derived ECs via different expression profiles between lymphoma ECs and reactive lymph node-derived ECs. Intensive researches were carried out on Tim-3-expressing -ECs and we found that Tim-3 -expressing-Ecs may play important role on EC-mediated tumor evasion.
Project description:Comparison of gene expression profiles of follicular lymphoma vs. reactive lymph nodes. 8 cases of follicular lymphoma; 5 cases of reactive lymph nodes.
Project description:MicroRNAs expression profile was acquired in 99 frozen tissues corresponding to 14 Burkitt's lymphoma, 17 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, 29 follicular lymphoma, 19 mantle cell lymphoma, 8 primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma and 12 lymph nodes. Additionally, we performed microRNA expression profile of 14 Burkitts' lymphoma cell lines, 2 mantle cell lymphoma cell lines, 5 acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell preparations, 5 samples of mononucleosis cells, 4 Epstein Barr virus infected lymphoblastoid cell lines (EBV), 27 purified samples of B cells at different stage of development (13 GC-CD23-/CD39-, 11 GC-CD5- and 3 GC-CD5+), 4 peripheral blood CD19+ B cells, 4 purified samples of T cells (2 CD4+ and 2 CD8+) and 2 samples of bone marrow CD34+ cells. The data were used to discriminate among diverse pathological and nonpathological samples and to identify microRNAs expression differences between pathological samples and their nonpathological counterparts.
Project description:Human B cell lymphomas such as Follicular Lymphoma (FL) and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL) grow in lymph nodes in areas defined as malignant follicles, and proliferation centers, respectively. We used single-cell RNA-sequencing to study the tumor microenvironment of human lymph nodes involved by FL and CLL.
Project description:We performed a comparison of transcriptome between follicular CD8 T cells (CXCR5+CD8+CD3+) from 3 lymph nodes of patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) and 3 tonsils of healthy donors, discovering 67 differentially expressed genes that show immunoregulatory potential of CVID follicular CD8 T cells.