Hironori Fukuda, Kosuke Arai, Hideaki Mizuno, Yukari Nishito, Noriko Motoi, Yasuhito Arai, Nobuyoshi Hiraoka, Tatsuhiro Shibata, Yukiko Sonobe, Yoko Kayukawa, Eri Hashimoto, Mina Takahashi, Etsuko Fujii, Toru Maruyama, Kenta Kuwabara, Takashi Nishizawa, Yukihiro Mizoguchi, Yukihiro Yoshida, Shun-Ichi Watanabe, Makiko Yamashita, Shigehisa Kitano, Hiromi Sakamoto, Yuki Nagata, Risa Mitsumori, Kouichi Ozaki, Shumpei Niida, Yae Kanai, Akiyoshi Hirayama, Tomoyoshi Soga, Keisuke Tsukada, Nami Yabuki, Mei Shimada, Takehisa Kitazawa, Osamu Natori, Noriaki Sawada, Atsuhiko Kato, Teruhiko Yoshida, Kazuki Yasuda, Atsushi Ochiai, Hiroyuki Tsunoda, Kazunori Aoki
Overcoming resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors is an important issue in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Transcriptome analysis shows that adenocarcinoma can be divided into three molecular subtypes: terminal respiratory unit (TRU), proximal proliferative (PP), and proximal inflammatory (PI), and squamous cell carcinoma (LUSQ) into four. However, the immunological characteristics of these subtypes are not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the immune landscape of NSCLC tissues in molecular subtypes using a multi-omics dataset, including tumor-infiltrating leukocytes (TILs) analyzed using flow cytometry, RNA sequences, whole exome sequences, metabolomic analysis, and clinicopathologic findings...
March 25, 2024: Cancer Science