Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Cold and heterogeneous T cell repertoire is associated with copy number aberrations and loss of immune genes in small-cell lung cancer

  • Ming Chen,
  • Runzhe Chen,
  • Ying Jin,
  • Jun Li,
  • Xin Hu,
  • Jiexin Zhang,
  • Junya Fujimoto,
  • Shawna M. Hubert,
  • Carl M. Gay,
  • Bo Zhu,
  • Yanhua Tian,
  • Nicholas McGranahan,
  • Won-Chul Lee,
  • Julie George,
  • Xiao Hu,
  • Yamei Chen,
  • Meijuan Wu,
  • Carmen Behrens,
  • Chi-Wan Chow,
  • Hoa H. N. Pham,
  • Junya Fukuoka,
  • Jia Wu,
  • Edwin Roger Parra,
  • Latasha D. Little,
  • Curtis Gumbs,
  • Xingzhi Song,
  • Chang-Jiun Wu,
  • Lixia Diao,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Robert Cardnell,
  • Jianhua Zhang,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Xiuning Le,
  • Don L. Gibbons,
  • John V. Heymach,
  • J. Jack Lee,
  • William N. William,
  • Chao Cheng,
  • Bonnie Glisson,
  • Ignacio Wistuba,
  • P. Andrew Futreal,
  • Roman K. Thomas,
  • Alexandre Reuben,
  • Lauren A. Byers,
  • Jianjun Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26821-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive disease with limited therapeutic options. Here the authors perform an immunogenomic analysis of limited-stage SCLC, revealing a homogeneous mutational landscape, but limited T-cell infiltration and a cold and heterogeneous T cell repertoire.