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Single-Cell Map of Diverse Immune Phenotypes in the Breast Tumor Microenvironment.

Cell | 2018

Knowledge of immune cell phenotypes in the tumor microenvironment is essential for understanding mechanisms of cancer progression and immunotherapy response. We profiled 45,000 immune cells from eight breast carcinomas, as well as matched normal breast tissue, blood, and lymph nodes, using single-cell RNA-seq. We developed a preprocessing pipeline, SEQC, and a Bayesian clustering and normalization method, Biscuit, to address computational challenges inherent to single-cell data. Despite significant similarity between normal and tumor tissue-resident immune cells, we observed continuous phenotypic expansions specific to the tumor microenvironment. Analysis of paired single-cell RNA and T cell receptor (TCR) sequencing data from 27,000 additional T cells revealed the combinatorial impact of TCR utilization on phenotypic diversity. Our results support a model of continuous activation in T cells and do not comport with the macrophage polarization model in cancer. Our results have important implications for characterizing tumor-infiltrating immune cells.

Pubmed ID: 29961579 RIS Download

Associated grants

  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 CA164729
  • Agency: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 CA008748
  • Agency: NICHD NIH HHS, United States
    Id: DP1 HD084071
  • Agency: NIAID NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R37 AI034206
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: K99 CA230195
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U54 CA209975

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