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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2021

Tumor-Infiltrating B- and T-Cell Repertoire in Pancreatic Cancer Associated With Host and Tumor Features.

Silvia Pineda, Evangelina López de Maturana, Katharine Yu, Akshay Ravoor, Inés Wood, Núria Malats, Marina Sirota

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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 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Silvia PinedaGenetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.
Evangelina López de MaturanaGenetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.
Katharine YuBakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of San Francisco, California (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, United States.
Akshay RavoorBakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of San Francisco, California (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, United States.
Inés WoodGenetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.
Núria MalatsGenetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.
Marina SirotaBakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of San Francisco, California (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, United States.
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer · ESUniversity of San Francisco · USSpanish National Cancer Research Centre · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Infiltrating B and T cells have been observed in several tumor tissues, including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The majority known PDAC risk factors point to a chronic inflammatory process leading to different forms of immunological infiltration. Understanding pancreatic tumor infiltration may lead to improved knowledge of this devastating disease. Methods: We extracted the immunoglobulins (IGs) and T cell receptors (TCRs) from RNA-sequencing of 144 PDAC from TCGA and 180 pancreatic normal tissue from GTEx. We used Shannon entropy to find differences in IG/TCR diversity. We performed a clonotype analysis considering the IG clone definition (same V and J segments, same CDR3 length, and 90% nucleotide identity between CDR3s) to study differences among the tumor samples. Finally, we performed an association analysis to find host and tumor factors associated with the IG/TCR. Results: PDAC presented a richer and more diverse IG and TCR infiltration than normal pancreatic tissue. A higher IG infiltration was present in heavy smokers and females and it was associated with better overall survival. In addition, specific IG clonotypes classified samples with better prognosis explaining 24% of the prognosis phenotypic variance. On the other hand, a larger TCR infiltration was present in patients with previous history of diabetes and was associated with lower nonantigen load. Conclusions: Our findings support PDAC subtyping according to its immune repertoire landscape with a potential impact on the understanding of the inflammatory basis of PDAC risk factors as well as the design of treatment options and prognosis monitoring.

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AdultAgedB-LymphocytesCarcinoma, Pancreatic DuctalDatabases, GeneticFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHumansImmunoglobulinsLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMaleMiddle AgedPancreatic NeoplasmsPhenotypePrognosisReceptors, Antigen, T-CellImmunoglobulinsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellB-cell repertoirecompositional analysisimmunoglobulinspancreatic cancerT-cell repertoiretumor infiltrationtumor microenvironment

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