Leukemia ( IF 12.8 ) Pub Date : 2024-12-17 , DOI: 10.1038/s41375-024-02490-6 Nicole Seifert, Sarah Reinke, Johanna Grund, Berit Müller-Meinhard, Julia Richter, Thorsten Heilmann, Hans Schlößer, Michaela Kotrova, Monika Brüggemann, Peter Borchmann, Paul J. Bröckelmann, Michael Altenbuchinger, Wolfram Klapper
The Tumor Microenvironment (TME) in classical Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL) contains abundant immune cells and only few neoplastic Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells (HRSC). We analyzed the T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire to detect T-cell expansion in the TME and blood. In contrast to solid cancer tissue, T-cells in the TME of HL are highly polyclonal at first diagnosis and show only minor clonal expansion during anti-PD1 immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). At relapse and during ICB, pre-amplified T-cell populations increase in the TME of solid cancers but to a much lesser extent in HL. In contrast, T-cell populations in the peripheral blood of HL patients display higher clonality than healthy controls reaching clonality levels comparable to solid cancer. However, pre-amplified blood T-cells in HL patients show only minor additional clonal expansion during ICB. Moreover, blood-derived T-cells do not repopulate the TME of HL to the same extent as observed in solid cancers. Thus, the T-cell repertoire in the TME of HL appears unique by a relatively low clonal T-cell content and the exclusion of clonally expanded T-cells from the peripheral blood. Exclusion of clonally expanded tumor-specific T-cells from the TME may present a novel mechanism of immune evasion in HL.
中文翻译:
经典霍奇金淋巴瘤肿瘤微环境中 T 细胞多样性和血源性 T 细胞的排除
经典霍奇金淋巴瘤 (HL) 中的肿瘤微环境 (TME) 包含丰富的免疫细胞,只有少量的肿瘤霍奇金细胞和 Reed-Sternberg 细胞 (HRSC)。我们分析了 T 细胞受体 (TCR) 库以检测 TME 和血液中的 T 细胞扩增。与实体癌组织相比,HL TME 中的 T 细胞在首次诊断时具有高度多克隆性,并且在抗 PD1 免疫检查点阻断 (ICB) 期间仅显示轻微的克隆扩增。在复发和 ICB 期间,预扩增的 T 细胞群在实体癌的 TME 中增加,但在 HL 中的程度要小得多。相比之下,HL 患者外周血中的 T 细胞群表现出比健康对照更高的克隆性,达到与实体癌相当的克隆性水平。然而,HL 患者预扩增的血液 T 细胞在 ICB 期间仅显示微小的额外克隆扩增。此外,血液来源的 T 细胞不会像在实体癌中观察到的那样在 HL 的 TME 中重新填充。因此,HL TME 中的 T 细胞库似乎具有相对较低的克隆 T 细胞含量和从外周血中排除克隆扩增的 T 细胞的独特性。从 TME 中排除克隆扩增的肿瘤特异性 T 细胞可能是一种在 HL 中免疫逃避的新机制。