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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2021

IDH Mutation Subgroup Status Associates with Intratumor Heterogeneity and the Tumor Microenvironment in Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma.

Xiao Xiang, Ziyang Liu, Chong Zhang, Zhao Li, Jie Gao, Changkun Zhang, Qi Cao, Jinghui Cheng, Hengkang Liu, Dingbao Chen and 5 more

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
9.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xiao XiangDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing Key Surgical Basic Research Laboratory of Liver Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer, Beijing, 100044, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7143-0196
Ziyang LiuBiomedical Pioneering Innovation Center (BIOPIC), School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
Chong ZhangBiomedical Pioneering Innovation Center (BIOPIC), School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
Zhao LiDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing Key Surgical Basic Research Laboratory of Liver Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer, Beijing, 100044, China.
Jie GaoDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing Key Surgical Basic Research Laboratory of Liver Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer, Beijing, 100044, China.
Changkun ZhangDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing Key Surgical Basic Research Laboratory of Liver Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer, Beijing, 100044, China.
Qi CaoTranslational Cancer Research Center, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China.
Jinghui ChengTranslational Cancer Research Center, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China.
Hengkang LiuTranslational Cancer Research Center, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China.
Dingbao ChenDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing Key Surgical Basic Research Laboratory of Liver Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer, Beijing, 100044, China.
Qian ChengDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing Key Surgical Basic Research Laboratory of Liver Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer, Beijing, 100044, China.
Ning ZhangTranslational Cancer Research Center, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China.
Ruidong XueTranslational Cancer Research Center, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5743-805X
Fan BaiBiomedical Pioneering Innovation Center (BIOPIC), School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
Jiye ZhuDepartment of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing Key Surgical Basic Research Laboratory of Liver Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer, Beijing, 100044, China.
Peking University · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 81570590National Natural Science Foundation of China 81802813National Natural Science Foundation of China 81872508National Natural Science Foundation of China 81972656National Natural Science Foundation of China 81988101National Science and Technology Major Project 2018ZX10302205National Science and Technology Major Project 2018ZX10723204National Science and Technology Major Project 2019YFC1315702UMHS-PKUHSC Joint Institute for Translational and Clinical Research BMU2017JI006UMHS-PKUHSC Joint Institute for Translational and Clinical Research BMU2020JI005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is highly heterogeneous. Here, the authors perform exome sequencing and bulk RNA sequencing on 73 tumor regions from 14 ICC patients to portray the multi-faceted intratumor heterogeneity (ITH) landscape of ICC. The authors show that ITH is highly concordant across genomic, transcriptomic, and immune levels. Comparison of these data to 8 published datasets reveals significantly higher degrees of ITH in ICC than hepatocellular carcinoma. Remarkably, the authors find that high-ITH tumors highly overlap with the IDH (isocitrate dehydrogenase)-mutant subgroup (IDH-SG), comprising of IDH-mutated tumors and IDH-like tumors, that is, those IDH-wildtype tumors that exhibit similar molecular profiles to the IDH-mutated ones. Furthermore, IDH-SG exhibits less T cell infiltration and lower T cell cytotoxicity, indicating a colder tumor microenvironment (TME). The higher ITH and colder TME of IDH-SG are successfully validated by single-cell RNA sequencing on 17 503 cells from 4 patients. Collectively, the study shows that IDH mutant subgroup status, rather than IDH mutation alone, is associated with ITH and the TME of ICC tumors. The results highlight that IDH-like patients may also benefit from IDH targeted therapies and provide important implications for the diagnosis and treatment of ICC.

Indexed as

Bile Duct NeoplasmsCholangiocarcinomaHumansIsocitrate DehydrogenaseMutationTumor MicroenvironmentIsocitrate Dehydrogenasehepatocellular carcinomaimmunotherapyisocitrate dehydrogenase-like tumorssingle cell sequencingsubclonal drivertumor microenvironment

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PMID34250753
PMCPMC8425914
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