Rituraj Upadhyay, Aastha Dhakal, Caroline Wheeler, Rebecca Hoyd, Malvenderjit Jagjit Singh, Vidhya Karivedu, Priyanka Bhateja, Marcelo Bonomi, Sasha Valentin, Mauricio E Gamez, David J Konieczkowski, Sujith Baliga, John C Grecula, Dukagjin M Blakaj, Emile Gogineni, Darrion L Mitchell, Nicholas C Denko, Daniel Spakowicz, Sachin R Jhawar
Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) comprises a diverse group of tumors with variable treatment response and prognosis. The tumor microenvironment (TME), which includes microbiome and immune cells, can impact outcomes. Here, we sought to relate the presence of specific microbes, gene expression, and tumor immune infiltration using tumor transcriptomics from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and associate these with overall survival (OS). RNA sequencing (RNAseq) from HNSCC tumors in TCGA was processed through the exogenous sequences in tumors and immune cells (exotic) pipeline to identify and quantify low-abundance microbes...
December 31, 2024: Cancer Biology & Therapy