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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2023

Features of the TCR repertoire associate with patients' clinical and molecular characteristics in acute myeloid leukemia.

Mateusz Pospiech, Mukund Tamizharasan, Yu-Chun Wei, Advaith Maya Sanjeev Kumar, Mimi Lou, Joshua Milstein, Houda Alachkar

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Mateusz PospiechDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Mukund TamizharasanDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Yu-Chun WeiDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Advaith Maya Sanjeev KumarDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Mimi LouDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Joshua MilsteinDepartment of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Houda AlachkarDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
University of Southern California · US

Funding

USC/NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER (CORE) SUPPORTP30CA014089 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI MYLES G COCKBURN · 1985 to 2026
$181.4M
VIRAL ONCOLOGY CORE FACILITYP30CA014599 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHIEN-MIN KAO · 1985 to 2026
$122.1M
Developing robust and scalable genomics tools and databases to analyze immune receptor repertoires across diverse populationsR01AI173172 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ALACHKAR, HOUDA · 2023 to 2025
$2.5M
Leveraging the TCR Repertoire to identify target neoantigens in FLT3-ITD positive Acute Myeloid LeukemiaR01CA248381 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ALACHKAR, HOUDA · 2021 to 2025
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014089NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014599NCI NIH HHS R01 CA248381NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI173172
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant remains the most effective strategy for patients with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Leukemia-specific neoantigens presented by the major histocompatibility complexes (MHCs) are recognized by the T cell receptors (TCR) triggering the graft-versus-leukemia effect. A unique TCR signature is generated by a complex V(D)J rearrangement process to form TCR capable of binding to the peptide-MHC. The generated TCR repertoire undergoes dynamic changes with disease progression and treatment. Method: Here we applied two different computational tools (TRUST4 and MIXCR) to extract the TCR sequences from RNA-seq data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and examine the association between features of the TCR repertoire in adult patients with AML and their clinical and molecular characteristics. Results: We found that only ~30% of identified TCR CDR3s were shared by the two computational tools. Yet, patterns of TCR associations with patients' clinical and molecular characteristics based on data obtained from either tool were similar. The numbers of unique TCR clones were highly correlated with patients' white blood cell counts, bone marrow blast percentage, and peripheral blood blast percentage. Multivariable regressions of TCRA and TCRB median normalized number of unique clones with mutational status of AML patients using TRUST4 showed significant association of TCRA or TCRB with WT1 mutations, WBC count, %BM blast, and sex (adjusted in TCRB model). We observed a correlation between TCRA/B number of unique clones and the expression of T cells inhibitory signal genes ( Conclusion: Benchmarking of computational tools is needed to increase the accuracy of the identified clones. The utilization of RNA-seq data enables identification of highly abundant TCRs and correlating these clones with patients' clinical and molecular characteristics. This study further supports the value of high-resolution TCR-Seq analyses to characterize the TCR repertoire in patients.

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Hematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteAdultBone MarrowHumansReceptors, Antigen, T-CellT-LymphocytesReceptors, Antigen, T-Cellacute myeloid leukemiaRNA sequencing (RNA-Seq)T cell receptor (TCR)TCGAWT1

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