单位:[1]Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, Hubei, China华中科技大学同济医学院附属协和医院[2]Department of Gynecologic Oncology,Tongji Hospital,Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430030,Hubei,China妇产科学系妇科肿瘤华中科技大学同济医学院附属同济医院[3]Cancer Biology Research Center (Key Laboratory of The Ministry of Education),Tongji Hospital,Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430100,Hubei,China肿瘤生物医学中心华中科技大学同济医学院附属同济医院[4]Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, Henan, China[5]BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, Guangzhou, China[6]Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Precision Diagnosis and Therapy for Major Gynecological Diseases, Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang, China浙江大学医学院附属妇产科医院
Despite the differences in disease outcomes and pathological features between cervical squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) and adenocarcinoma (ADC), the molecular characteristics in immune heterogeneity of the tumor microenvironment remain unclear. Here, we explored the immune landscape and heterogeneity between CSCC and ADC. Gene expression and clinical characteristics of cervical carcinoma from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) were downloaded. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs), immune cell infiltration, and pathway enrichment analyses were used to explore the immune landscape and heterogeneity between CSCC and ADC. Furthermore, distinct immune signatures between CSCC and ADC were validated based on clinical samples. In total, 4,132 upregulated DEGs and 2,307 down-regulated DEGs were identified between CSCC and ADC, with enrichments in immune related-pathways in CSCC. In addition, 54 hub DEGs correlated with patients' prognosis and immunocytes infiltration were identified. The CSCC patients had a higher ImmuneScore and more abundant immunocytes infiltration compared to ADC patients, as validated by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and multicolor immunofluorescence (mIF) analyses of collected samples. Furthermore, CSCC displayed higher inhibitory immune checkpoints expression, tumor mutation burden (TMB), and microsatellite instability (MSI) compared to ADC, which indicated CSCC patients were more likely to benefit from immunotherapy. In summary, our results revealed the huge immune heterogeneity between CSCC and ADC, and provided guidance for immunotherapy selection for different pathological types of cervical cancer.
基金:
This work received funding from the National Key
R&D Program of China (2021YFC2701201), National
Natural Science Foundation of China (82072895,
82141106, 81903114, 82203453), The Zhejiang
Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Q23H160095),
Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation
Committee (JCYJ20210324105808022).
第一作者单位:[1]Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, Hubei, China[2]Department of Gynecologic Oncology,Tongji Hospital,Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430030,Hubei,China[3]Cancer Biology Research Center (Key Laboratory of The Ministry of Education),Tongji Hospital,Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430100,Hubei,China
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通讯机构:[1]Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, Hubei, China[2]Department of Gynecologic Oncology,Tongji Hospital,Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430030,Hubei,China[3]Cancer Biology Research Center (Key Laboratory of The Ministry of Education),Tongji Hospital,Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430100,Hubei,China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Liu Binghan,Xu Yashi,Hu Bai,et al.Immune landscape and heterogeneity of cervical squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma[J].AGING-US.2024,16(1):568-592.doi:10.18632/aging.205397.
APA:
Liu Binghan,Xu Yashi,Hu Bai,Song Xiaole,Lin Shitong...&Li Li.(2024).Immune landscape and heterogeneity of cervical squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma.AGING-US,16,(1)
MLA:
Liu Binghan,et al."Immune landscape and heterogeneity of cervical squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma".AGING-US 16..1(2024):568-592