Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States.
Department of Neurosurgery, Nanjing Brain Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Front Immunol. 2022 May 20;13:914236. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.914236. eCollection 2022.
Human glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive brain tumor, comprises six major subtypes of malignant cells, giving rise to both inter-patient and intra-tumor heterogeneity. The interaction between different tumor subtypes and non-malignant cells to collectively shape a tumor microenvironment has not been systematically characterized. Herein, we sampled the cellular milieu of surgically resected primary tumors from 7 GBM patients using single-cell transcriptome sequencing. A lineage relationship analysis revealed that a neural-progenitor-2-like (NPC2-like) state with high metabolic activity was associated with the tumor cells of origin. Mesenchymal-1-like (MES1-like) and mesenchymal-2-like (MES2-like) tumor cells correlated strongly with immune infiltration and chronic hypoxia niche responses. We identified four subsets of tumor-associated macrophages/microglia (TAMs), among which TAM-1 co-opted both acute and chronic hypoxia-response signatures, implicated in tumor angiogenesis, invasion, and poor prognosis. MES-like GBM cells expressed the highest number of M2-promoting ligands compared to other cellular states while all six states were associated with TAM M2-type polarization and immunosuppression a set of 10 ligand-receptor signaling pathways. Our results provide new insights into the differential roles of GBM cell subtypes in the tumor immune microenvironment that may be deployed for patient stratification and personalized treatment.
人类胶质母细胞瘤(GBM)是最具侵袭性的脑肿瘤,由六种主要的恶性细胞亚型组成,导致患者间和肿瘤内异质性。不同肿瘤亚型与非恶性细胞之间的相互作用,共同塑造肿瘤微环境,尚未得到系统的描述。在此,我们使用单细胞转录组测序对 7 名 GBM 患者手术切除的原发肿瘤的细胞环境进行了采样。谱系关系分析显示,具有高代谢活性的神经祖细胞-2 样(NPC2-样)状态与肿瘤起源细胞有关。间充质-1 样(MES1-样)和间充质-2 样(MES2-样)肿瘤细胞与免疫浸润和慢性缺氧生态位反应强烈相关。我们鉴定了四种肿瘤相关巨噬细胞/小胶质细胞(TAMs)亚群,其中 TAM-1 同时采用了急性和慢性缺氧反应特征,与肿瘤血管生成、侵袭和不良预后有关。与其他细胞状态相比,MES 样 GBM 细胞表达了最多数量的促进 M2 极化的配体,而所有六种状态都与 TAM M2 型极化和免疫抑制有关,涉及到一组 10 个配体-受体信号通路。我们的研究结果为 GBM 细胞亚型在肿瘤免疫微环境中的不同作用提供了新的见解,这些作用可能用于患者分层和个性化治疗。
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