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ArticleScientific reports2023

Globally shared TCR repertoires within the tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes of patients with metastatic gynecologic cancer.

Taehoon Kim, Hyeonseob Lim, Soyeong Jun, Junsik Park, Dongin Lee, Ji Hyun Lee, Jung-Yun Lee, Duhee Bang

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Taehoon Kim *Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, Korea.
Hyeonseob Lim *Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, Korea.
Soyeong Jun *Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, Korea.
Junsik ParkDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, Korea.
Dongin LeeDepartment of Chemistry, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, Korea.
Ji Hyun LeeDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Korea.
Jung-Yun LeeDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, Korea. yodrum682@gmail.com.
Duhee BangDepartment of Chemistry, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, Korea. duheebang@yonsei.ac.kr.
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Funding

Korea Health Industry Development Institute HI18C2282Korea Health Industry Development Institute,South Korea HI14C1277National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2021R1A2C2008490Yonsei University College of Medicine 6-2021-0102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gynecologic cancer, including ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer, is characterized by morphological and molecular heterogeneity. Germline and somatic testing are available for patients to screen for pathogenic variants in genes such as BRCA1/2. Tissue expression levels of immunogenomic markers such as PD-L1 are also being used in clinical research. The basic therapeutic approach to gynecologic cancer combines surgery with chemotherapy. Immunotherapy, while not yet a mainstream treatment for gynecologic cancers, is advancing, with Dostarlimab recently receiving approval as a treatment for endometrial cancer. The goal remains to harness stimulated immune cells in the bloodstream to eradicate multiple metastases, a feat currently deemed challenging in a typical clinical setting. For the discovery of novel immunotherapy-based tumor targets, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) give a key insight on tumor-related immune activities by providing T cell receptor (TCR) sequences. Understanding the TCR repertoires of TILs in metastatic tissues and the circulation is important from an immunotherapy standpoint, as a subset of T cells in the blood have the potential to help kill tumor cells. To explore the relationship between distant tissue biopsy regions and blood circulation, we investigated the TCR beta chain (TCRβ) in bulk tumor and matched blood samples from 39 patients with gynecologic cancer. We found that the TCR clones of TILs at different tumor sites were globally shared within patients and had high overlap with the TCR clones in peripheral blood.

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Endometrial NeoplasmsOvarian NeoplasmsBRCA1 ProteinBRCA2 ProteinFemaleHumansLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingReceptors, Antigen, T-CellBRCA1 ProteinBRCA1 protein, humanBRCA2 ProteinBRCA2 protein, humanReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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PMID37993659
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