Project description:This work describes a patient-derived tumoroid model (PDTs) to support precision medicine in lung oncology. The use of human adipose tissue-derived microvasculature and patient-derived PBMCs permits to achieve a physiologically relevant tumor-microenvironment in this 3D tumor model. This study involved ten patients at various stages of tumor progression. The vascularized, immune-infiltrated PDT model could be obtained within two weeks, matching the requirements of the therapeutic decision-making process. Histological and transcriptomic analyses confirmed that the main features from the original tumor were reproduced. The 3D tumor model could be used to determine the dynamics of response to antiangiogenic therapy and platinum-based chemotherapy. Antiangiogenic therapy showed a significant decrease in vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A expression, reflecting its therapeutic effect in the model. In an immune-infiltrated PDT model, chemotherapy showed the ability to decrease the levels of lymphocyte activation gene-3 protein (LAG-3), B and T lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA) and inhibitory receptors of T cells functions.
Project description:This study investigates the ability of tumor budding to identify prognosis in different MMR states and different levels of tumor lymphocyte infiltration. Tumor budding is usually defined as an isolated single cancer cell or a cluster of up to four cancer cells located at the front of an infiltrating tumor.
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<pre>Optimal control of mixed immunotherapy and chemotherapy of tumors
Lisette Depillis, K. R. Fister , W. Gu, Tiffany Head, Kenny Maples, Todd Neal, Anand Murugan and Kenji Kozai
Abstract
We investigate a mathematical population model of tumor-immune interactions. Thepopulations involved are tumor cells, specific and non-specific immune cells, and con-centrations of therapeutic treatments. We establish the existence of an optimal con-trol for this model and provide necessary conditions for the optimal control triple forsimultaneous application of chemotherapy, tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) ther-apy, and interleukin-2 (IL-2) treatment. We discuss numerical results for the combina-tion of the chemo-immunotherapy regimens. We find that the qualitative nature of ourresults indicates that chemotherapy is the dominant intervention with TIL interactingin a complementary fashion with the chemotherapy. However, within the optimal con-trol context, the interleukin-2 treatment does not become activated for the estimatedparameter ranges.
Project description:Solid tumors are complex organs comprising neoplastic cells and stroma, yet cancer cell lines remain widely used to study tumor biology, biomarkers and experimental therapy. Here, we performed a fully integrative analysis of global proteomic data comparing human colorectal cancer (CRC) cell lines to primary tumors and normal tissues. We found a significant, systematic difference between cell line and tumor proteomes, with a major contribution from tumor stroma proteomes. Nevertheless, cell lines overall mirrored the proteomic differences observed between tumors and normal tissues, in particular for genetic information processing and metabolic pathways, indicating that cell lines provide a system for the study of the intrinsic molecular programs in cancer cells. Intersection of cell line data with tumor data provided insights into tumor cell specific proteome alterations driven by genomic alterations. Our integration of cell line proteogenomic data with drug sensitivity data highlights the potential of proteomic data in predicting therapeutic response. We identified representative cell lines for the proteomic subtypes of primary tumors, and linked these to drug sensitivity data to identify subtype-specific drug candidates.
Project description:CD8+ tumor infiltrating lymphocytes can have a range of binding strengths for a single tumor associated antigen. The impact this has on the transcriptional profile of the diverse CD8+ tumor infiltrating lymphocyte population was investigated by single cell RNA sequencing.
Project description:Understanding how intra-tumoral immune populations coordinate to generate anti-tumor responses following therapy can guide precise treatment prioritization. We performed systematic dissection of an established adoptive cellular therapy, donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) by analyzing 348,905 single-cell transcriptomes from 74 longitudinal bone-marrow samples of 25 patients with relapsed myeloid leukemia; with a subset evaluated by protein-based spatial analysis. In acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) responders, diverse immune cell types within the bone-marrow microenvironment (BME) were predicted to interact with a clonally expanded population of ZNF683+GZMB+ CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) which demonstrated in vitro specificity for autologous leukemia. This population, originating predominantly from the DLI product, expanded concurrently with NK and B cells. AML nonresponder BME revealed a paucity of crosstalk and elevated TIGIT expression in CD8+ CTLs. Our study highlights recipient BME differences as a key determinant of effective anti-leukemia response and opens new opportunities to modulate cell-based leukemia-directed therapy.
Project description:Purpose: The heterogeneity of tumor cells presents a major challenge to cancer diagnosis and therapy. Cutaneous T cell lymphomas (CTCL) are a group of T lymphocyte malignanciesthat primarily affect skin. Lack of highly specific markers for malignant lymphocytes prevents early diagnosis, while only limited treatment options are available for patients with advanced-stage CTCL.Droplet-basedsingle-cell transcriptome analysis of CTCL skin biopsiesopens avenues for dissecting patient-specificT lymphocyte heterogeneity, providing a basis for identifying specific markers for diagnosis and cure of CTCL. Experimental Design: Single-cell RNA-sequencing was performed by Droplet-based sequencing (10X Genomics), focusing on 14,056 CD3+lymphocytes (448 cells from normal and 13,608 cells from CTCL skin samples) from skin biopsies of 5 patients with advanced-stage CTCL and 4 healthy donors.Protein expression of identified genes was validated in advanced-stage CTCL skin tumors byimmunohistochemistry and confocal immunofluorescence microscopy. Results: Our analysis revealed a large inter- and intra-tumor gene expression heterogeneity in the T lymphocyte subset, as well as a common gene expression signature in highly proliferating lymphocytes that was validated in multiple advanced-stage skin tumors. In addition, we established the immunological state of reactive lymphocytes and found heterogeneity in effector and exhaution programs across patient samples. Conclusions: Single-cell analysis of CTCL skin tumor samples reveals patient-specific landscapes of malignant and reactive lymphocytes within the local microenvironment of each tumor, giving anunprecedented view of lymphocyte heterogeneity and identifying tumor-specific molecular signatures, withimportant implications for diagnosis and personalized disease treatment.
Project description:Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte (TIL) therapy have shown promise in the treatment of patients with refractory solid tumors, with improvement in response rates and durability of responses nevertheless sought. To identify targets capable of enhancing the anti-tumor activity of T cell therapies, large-scale in vitro and in vivo CRISPR/Cas9 screens were performed, with the suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 (SOCS1) gene identified as a top T cell-enhancing target. In murine CD8 T cell therapy models, SOCS1 served as a critical checkpoint in restraining the accumulation of T central memory cells in lymphoid organs as well as intermediate (Texint) and effector (Texeff) exhausted T cell subsets derived from progenitor exhausted T cell (Texprog) cells in tumors. A comprehensive CRISPR tiling screen of the SOCS1 coding region identified sgRNAs targeting the SH2 domain of SOCS1 as the most potent, with a sgRNA with minimal off-target cut sites used to manufacture KSQ-001, an engineered TIL therapy with SOCS1 inactivated by CRISPR/Cas9. KSQ-001 possessed increased responsiveness to cytokine signals and enhanced in vivo anti-tumor function in mouse models. These data demonstrate the use of CRISPR/Cas9 screens in the rational design of T cell therapies.
Project description:Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte (TIL) therapy have shown promise in the treatment of patients with refractory solid tumors, with improvement in response rates and durability of responses nevertheless sought. To identify targets capable of enhancing the anti-tumor activity of T cell therapies, large-scale in vitro and in vivo CRISPR/Cas9 screens were performed, with the suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 (SOCS1) gene identified as a top T cell-enhancing target. In murine CD8 T cell therapy models, SOCS1 served as a critical checkpoint in restraining the accumulation of T central memory cells in lymphoid organs as well as intermediate (Texint) and effector (Texeff) exhausted T cell subsets derived from progenitor exhausted T cell (Texprog) cells in tumors. A comprehensive CRISPR tiling screen of the SOCS1 coding region identified sgRNAs targeting the SH2 domain of SOCS1 as the most potent, with a sgRNA with minimal off-target cut sites used to manufacture KSQ-001, an engineered TIL therapy with SOCS1 inactivated by CRISPR/Cas9. KSQ-001 possessed increased responsiveness to cytokine signals and enhanced in vivo anti-tumor function in mouse models. These data demonstrate the use of CRISPR/Cas9 screens in the rational design of T cell therapies.
Project description:Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte (TIL) therapy have shown promise in the treatment of patients with refractory solid tumors, with improvement in response rates and durability of responses nevertheless sought. To identify targets capable of enhancing the anti-tumor activity of T cell therapies, large-scale in vitro and in vivo CRISPR/Cas9 screens were performed, with the suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 (SOCS1) gene identified as a top T cell-enhancing target. In murine CD8 T cell therapy models, SOCS1 served as a critical checkpoint in restraining the accumulation of T central memory cells in lymphoid organs as well as intermediate (Texint) and effector (Texeff) exhausted T cell subsets derived from progenitor exhausted T cell (Texprog) cells in tumors. A comprehensive CRISPR tiling screen of the SOCS1 coding region identified sgRNAs targeting the SH2 domain of SOCS1 as the most potent, with a sgRNA with minimal off-target cut sites used to manufacture KSQ-001, an engineered TIL therapy with SOCS1 inactivated by CRISPR/Cas9. KSQ-001 possessed increased responsiveness to cytokine signals and enhanced in vivo anti-tumor function in mouse models. These data demonstrate the use of CRISPR/Cas9 screens in the rational design of T cell therapies.