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

Single-Cell RNA-Seq of T Cells in B-ALL Patients Reveals an Exhausted Subset with Remarkable Heterogeneity.

Xiaofang Wang, Yanjuan Chen, Zongcheng Li, Bingyan Huang, Ling Xu, Jing Lai, Yuhong Lu, Xianfeng Zha, Bing Liu, Yu Lan and 1 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 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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43 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Xiaofang WangDepartment of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, No. 601 West of Huangpu Avenue, Guangzhou, 510632, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1601-7814
Yanjuan ChenKey Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine of Ministry of Education, Institute of Hematology, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9371-0313
Zongcheng LiState Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Institute of Hematology, Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100071, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5189-5268
Bingyan HuangKey Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine of Ministry of Education, Institute of Hematology, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.
Ling XuDepartment of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, No. 601 West of Huangpu Avenue, Guangzhou, 510632, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7044-7663
Jing LaiDepartment of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, No. 601 West of Huangpu Avenue, Guangzhou, 510632, China.
Yuhong LuDepartment of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, No. 601 West of Huangpu Avenue, Guangzhou, 510632, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9017-2185
Xianfeng ZhaDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Jinan University, No. 601 West of Huangpu Avenue, Guangzhou, 510632, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4970-1305
Bing LiuState Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Institute of Hematology, Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100071, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7313-6924
Yu LanKey Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine of Ministry of Education, Institute of Hematology, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4731-5945
Yangqiu LiDepartment of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, No. 601 West of Huangpu Avenue, Guangzhou, 510632, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0974-4036
Jinan University · CNFirst Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University · CNChinese PLA General Hospital · CN

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2019M663399Guangzhou Science and Technology Project 201803040017Guangzhou Science and Technology Project 201807010004Key Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province 2019B020234002National Key Research and Development Program of China 2016YFA0100601National Key Research and Development Program of China 2017YFA0103401National Key Research and Development Program of China 2020YFA0112402National Natural Science Foundation of China 31871173National Natural Science Foundation of China 81770152National Natural Science Foundation of China 81890991National Natural Science Foundation of China 81900110National Natural Science Foundation of China 81900115National Natural Science Foundation of China 82070152Program for Guangdong Introducing Innovative and Entrepreneurial Teams 2017ZT07S347
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Characterization of functional T cell clusters is key to developing strategies for immunotherapy and predicting clinical responses in leukemia. Here, single-cell RNA sequencing is performed with T cells sorted from the peripheral blood of healthy individuals and patients with B cell-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). Unbiased bioinformatics analysis enabled the authors to identify 13 T cell clusters in the patients based on their molecular properties. All 11 major T cell subsets in healthy individuals are found in the patients with B-ALL, with the counterparts in the patients universally showing more activated characteristics. Two exhausted T cell populations, characterized by up-regulation of TIGIT, PDCD1, HLADRA, LAG3, and CTLA4 are specifically discovered in B-ALL patients. Of note, these exhausted T cells possess remarkable heterogeneity, and ten sub-clusters are further identified, which are characterized by different cell cycle phases, naïve states, and GNLY (coding granulysin) expression. Coupled with single-cell T cell receptor repertoire profiling, diverse originations of the exhausted T cells in B-ALL are suggested, and clonally expanded exhausted T cells are likely to originate from CD8

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HumansLymphocyte CountLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingPrecursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-LymphomaRNA-SeqT-Lymphocyte SubsetsB cell-acute lymphoblastic leukemiaheterogeneitysingle-cell RNA sequencingT cells

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