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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2021

GARP Correlates With Tumor-Infiltrating T-Cells and Predicts the Outcome of Gastric Cancer.

Sutian Jiang, Yifan Zhang, Xiaojing Zhang, Bing Lu, Pingping Sun, Qianqian Wu, Xuzhong Ding, Jianfei Huang

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Sutian JiangDepartment of Clinical Biobank, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Yifan ZhangClinical Medicine, Xian Medical University, Xi'an, China.
Xiaojing ZhangDepartment of Clinical Biobank, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Bing LuDepartment of Clinical Biobank, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Pingping SunDepartment of Clinical Biobank, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Qianqian WuDepartment of Clinical Biobank, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Xuzhong DingDepartment of Clinical Biobank, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Jianfei HuangDepartment of Clinical Biobank, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Nantong University · CNAffiliated Hospital of Nantong University · CNXi'an Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accepting the crucial role of the immune microenvironment (TME) in tumor progression enables us to identify immunotherapeutic targets and develop new therapies. Glycoprotein A repetitions predominant (GARP) plays a vital part in maintaining regulatory T cell (Treg)-mediated immune tolerance. The impact of GARP in TME of gastric cancer is still worth exploring. We investigated public genomic datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas and Gene Expression Omnibus to analyze the possible role of GARP and its relationship with TME of gastric cancer. Fluorescence-based multiplex immunohistochemistry and immunohistochemistry for T-cell immune signatures in a series of tissue microarrays were used to validate the value of GARP in the TME. We initially found that GARP expression was upregulated in gastric carcinoma cells, and diverse levels o3f immune cell infiltration and immune checkpoint expression were detected. Gene expression profiling revealed that GARP expression was related to the TME of gastric cancer. GARP upregulation was usually accompanied by increased FOXP3+ Treg and CD4+ T cell infiltration. In addition, GARP expression had positive relationships with CTLA-4 and PD-L1 expression in gastric cancer. Cox regression analysis and a nomogram highlighted that the probability of poor overall survival was predicted well by GARP or GARP+CD4+ T cell. Taken together, this research underlines the potential effect of GARP in regulating survival and tumor-infiltrating T-cells. In addition, the function of CD4+ T cell immune signatures in the prognosis can be clinically meaningful, thereby providing a new idea for the immunotherapeutic approach.

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CD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCohort StudiesFemaleHumansImmunohistochemistryLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMaleMembrane ProteinsMiddle AgedStomach NeoplasmsTissue Array AnalysisTumor MicroenvironmentUp-RegulationLRRC32 protein, humanMembrane ProteinsGARPgastric cancermIHCTMATME

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PMCPMC8378229
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