Kong Xiang-Xing, Xu Jia-Sheng, Hu Ye-Ting, Jiao Yu-Rong, Chen Sheng, Yu Cheng-Xuan, Dai Si-Qi, Gao Zong-Bao, Hao Xu-Ran, Li Jun, Ding Ke-Feng
Department of Colorectal Surgery and Oncology (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, China National Ministry of Education), The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Zhejiang Puluoting Health Tech CO. LTD, Hangzhou, China.
iScience. 2024 Feb 15;27(3):109229. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109229. eCollection 2024 Mar 15.
Current studies on the immune microenvironment of colorectal cancer (CRC) were mostly limited to the tissue level, lacking relevant studies in the peripheral blood, and failed to describe its alterations in the whole process of adenocarcinoma formation, especially of adenoma carcinogenesis. Here, we constructed a large-scale population cohort and used the CyTOF to explore the changes of various immune cell subsets in peripheral blood of CRC. We found monocytes and basophils cells were significantly higher in adenocarcinoma patients. Compared with early-stage CRC, effector CD4T cells and naive B cells were higher in patients with lymph node metastasis, whereas the basophils were lower. We also performed random forest algorithm and found monocytes play the key role in carcinogenesis. Our study draws a peripheral blood immune cell landscape of the occurrence and development of CRC at the single-cell level and provides a reference for other researchers.
目前关于结直肠癌(CRC)免疫微环境的研究大多局限于组织水平,缺乏外周血相关研究,且未能描述腺癌形成全过程,尤其是腺瘤癌变过程中的变化。在此,我们构建了一个大规模人群队列,并使用质谱流式细胞术(CyTOF)来探索CRC外周血中各种免疫细胞亚群的变化。我们发现腺癌患者的单核细胞和嗜碱性粒细胞显著增多。与早期CRC相比,有淋巴结转移的患者效应性CD4T细胞和初始B细胞增多,而嗜碱性粒细胞减少。我们还进行了随机森林算法,发现单核细胞在致癌过程中起关键作用。我们的研究在单细胞水平描绘了CRC发生发展的外周血免疫细胞图谱,为其他研究人员提供了参考。