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Immune escape in breast cancer during in situ to invasive carcinoma transition

ABSTRACT: To dissect mechanisms of immune escape during breast tumor progression, we analyzed the composition of leukocytes in normal breast tissues, ductal carcinomas in situ (DCIS), and HER2+ and triple negative invasive ductal carcinomas (IDC). We found significant tissue and tumor subtype-specific differences in multiple cell types including T cells and neutrophils. Analysis of gene expression profiles of T cells demonstrated enrichment for activated GZMB+MKI67+CD8+ effector T cell signatures in DCIS. TCR clonotypes also showed highest diversity in DCIS. Naïve T cell signatures predominated IDCs, especially triple negative subtypes. TIGIT and PDL1 immune checkpoint proteins showed differential expression between DCIS and IDCs with amplification of CD274 (encoding PDL1) only detected in triple negative IDCs. Our results imply that DCIS progression is limited by an anti-tumor immune response that becomes muted in invasive tumors due to selection for cancer cells and microenvironment that suppress activated T cells or no longer trigger their activation.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE87517 | GEO | 2017/06/28

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA345006

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a non-invasive form of breast cancer where cells restricted to the ducts exhibit an atypical phenotype. Some DCIS lesions are believed to rapidly transit to invasive ductal carcinomas (IDCs), while others remain unchanged. Existing classification systems for DCIS fail to identify those lesions that transit to IDC. We studied gene expression patterns of 31 pure DCIS, 36 pure invasive cancers and 42 cases of mixed diagnosis (invasive cancer with an in situ component) using Agilent Whole Human Genome Oligo Microarrays 44k. Six normal breast tissue samples were also included as controls. qRT-PCR was used for validation. All DCIS and invasive samples could be classified into the intrinsic molecular subtypes defined for invasive breast cancer. Hierarchical clustering establishes that samples group by intrinsic subtype, and not by diagnosis. We observed heterogeneity in the transcriptomes among DCIS of high histological grade and identified a distinct subgroup containing seven of the 31 DCIS samples with gene expression characteristics more similar to advanced tumours. A set of genes independent of grade, ER-status and HER2-status was identified by logistic regression that univariately classified a sample as belonging to this distinct DCIS subgroup. qRT-PCR of single markers clearly separated this DCIS subgroup from the other DCIS, and contains samples from several histopathological and intrinsic molecular subtypes. The genes that differentiate between these two types of DCIS suggest several processes related to the re-organisation of the microenvironment. This raises interesting possibilities for identification of DCIS lesions both with and without invasive characteristics, which potentially could be used in clinical assessment of a woman's risk of progression, and lead to improved management that would avoid the current over- and under-treatment of patients. Breast cancer samples, 31 pure DCIS patients, 36 IDC patients, 42 mixed and 6 normal.

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Immune escape in breast cancer during in situ to invasive carcinoma transition

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