[HTML][HTML] Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals evolution of immune landscape during glioblastoma progression

AT Yeo, S Rawal, B Delcuze, A Christofides… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Nature immunology, 2022nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is an incurable primary malignant brain cancer hallmarked with a
substantial protumorigenic immune component. Knowledge of the GBM immune
microenvironment during tumor evolution and standard of care treatments is limited. Using
single-cell transcriptomics and flow cytometry, we unveiled large-scale comprehensive
longitudinal changes in immune cell composition throughout tumor progression in an
epidermal growth factor receptor-driven genetic mouse GBM model. We identified subsets of …
Abstract
Glioblastoma (GBM) is an incurable primary malignant brain cancer hallmarked with a substantial protumorigenic immune component. Knowledge of the GBM immune microenvironment during tumor evolution and standard of care treatments is limited. Using single-cell transcriptomics and flow cytometry, we unveiled large-scale comprehensive longitudinal changes in immune cell composition throughout tumor progression in an epidermal growth factor receptor-driven genetic mouse GBM model. We identified subsets of proinflammatory microglia in developing GBMs and anti-inflammatory macrophages and protumorigenic myeloid-derived suppressors cells in end-stage tumors, an evolution that parallels breakdown of the blood–brain barrier and extensive growth of epidermal growth factor receptor+ GBM cells. A similar relationship was found between microglia and macrophages in patient biopsies of low-grade glioma and GBM. Temozolomide decreased the accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells, whereas concomitant temozolomide irradiation increased intratumoral GranzymeB+ CD8+T cells but also increased CD4+ regulatory T cells. These results provide a comprehensive and unbiased immune cellular landscape and its evolutionary changes during GBM progression.
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