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An Economical, Quantitative, and Robust Protocol for High-Throughput T Cell Receptor Sequencing from Tumor or Blood

Uddin, I; Joshi, K; Oakes, T; Heather, JM; Swanton, C; TRACERx consortium, .; Chain, B; (2019) An Economical, Quantitative, and Robust Protocol for High-Throughput T Cell Receptor Sequencing from Tumor or Blood. Cancer Immunosurveillance: Methods and Protocols pp. 15-42. 10.1007/978-1-4939-8885-3_2. Green open access

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Abstract

The T cell receptor repertoire provides a window to the cellular adaptive immune response within a tumor, and has the potential to identify specific and personalized biomarkers for tracking host responses during cancer therapy, including immunotherapy. We describe a protocol for amplifying, sequencing, and analyzing T cell receptors which is economical, robust, sensitive, and versatile. The key experimental step is the ligation of a single-stranded oligonucleotide to the 3' end of the T cell receptor cDNA, which allows easy amplification of all possible rearrangements using only a single set of primers per locus, while simultaneously introducing a unique molecular identifier to label each starting cDNA molecule. After sequencing, this molecular identifier can be used to correct both sequence errors and the effects of differential PCR amplification efficiency, thus producing a more accurate measure of the true T cell receptor frequency within the sample. This method has been applied to the analysis of unfractionated human tumor lysates, subpopulations of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, and peripheral blood samples from patients with a variety of solid tumors.

Type: Article
Title: An Economical, Quantitative, and Robust Protocol for High-Throughput T Cell Receptor Sequencing from Tumor or Blood
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8885-3_2
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8885-3_2
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Adaptive immune response, High-throughput sequencing, Immunotherapy, Lung cancer, T cell receptor
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute > Research Department of Oncology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Infection and Immunity
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10064079
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