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Tracking the evolution of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma under dynamic immune selection by multi-omics sequencing

Cui, S; McGranahan, N; Gao, J; Chen, P; Jiang, W; Yang, L; Ma, L; ... Wu, S; + view all (2023) Tracking the evolution of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma under dynamic immune selection by multi-omics sequencing. Nature Communications , 14 (1) , Article 892. 10.1038/s41467-023-36558-1. Green open access

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Abstract

Intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) has been linked to decreased efficacy of clinical treatments. However, although genomic ITH has been characterized in genetic, transcriptomic and epigenetic alterations are hallmarks of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), the extent to which these are heterogeneous in ESCC has not been explored in a unified framework. Further, the extent to which tumor-infiltrated T lymphocytes are directed against cancer cells, but how the immune infiltration acts as a selective force to shape the clonal evolution of ESCC is unclear. In this study, we perform multi-omic sequencing on 186 samples from 36 primary ESCC patients. Through multi-omics analyses, it is discovered that genomic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic ITH are underpinned by ongoing chromosomal instability. Based on the RNA-seq data, we observe diverse levels of immune infiltrate across different tumor sites from the same tumor. We reveal genetic mechanisms of neoantigen evasion under distinct selection pressure from the diverse immune microenvironment. Overall, our work offers an avenue of dissecting the complex contribution of the multi-omics level to the ITH in ESCC and thereby enhances the development of clinical therapy.

Type: Article
Title: Tracking the evolution of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma under dynamic immune selection by multi-omics sequencing
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36558-1
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36558-1
Language: English
Additional information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Humans, Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Esophageal Neoplasms, Multiomics, Transcriptome, Gene Expression Profiling, Tumor Microenvironment
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 Cancer Bio
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167137
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