A comprehensive profile of TCF1^(+)progenitor and TCF1−terminally exhausted PD-1^(+)CD8^(+)T cells in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma:implications for prognosis and immunotherapy

作     者：Dikan Wang Juan Fang Shuqiong Wen Qunxing Li Jinming Wang Lisa Yang Wenxiao Dai Huanzi Lu Junyi Guo Zhongyan Shan Wenqiang Xie Xiangqi Liu Liling Wen Jie Shen Anxun Wang Qianming Chen Zhi Wang Dikan Wang;Juan Fang;Shuqiong Wen;Qunxing Li;Jinming Wang;Lisa Yang;Wenxiao Dai;Huanzi Lu;Junyi Guo;Zhongyan Shan;Wenqiang Xie;Xiangqi Liu;Liling Wen;Jie Shen;Anxun Wang;Qianming Chen;Zhi Wang

作者机构：Hospital of StomatologyGuanghua School of StomatologyGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of StomatologySun Yat-Sen UniversityGuangzhouChina Hospital of StomatologyKey Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Research of Zhejiang ProvinceSchool of StomatologyZhejiang University School of MedicineHangzhouChina Department of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryFirst Affiliated HospitalSun Yat-Sen UniversityGuangzhouChina 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Oral Science》 (国际口腔科学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第14卷第1期

页      面：91-99页

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学科分类：1003[医学-口腔医学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundations of China (Nos. 81972532, 81991500, 82101017, 81902778, and 81500864) Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2020A1515110741) 

主　　题：PD1 progenitor squamous 

摘      要：The heterogeneity of exhausted T cells(Tex)is a critical determinant of immune checkpoint blockade therapy ***,few studies have explored exhausted T cell subpopulations in human *** the present study,we examined samples from two cohorts of 175 patients with head and neck squamous cell cancer(HNSCC)by multiplex immunohistochemistry(mIHC)to investigate two subsets of Tex,CD8+PD1+TCF1+progenitor exhausted T cells(TCF1+Texprog)and CD8+PD1+TCF1−terminally exhausted T cells(TCF1−Texterm).Moreover,fresh tumor samples from 34 patients with HNSCC were examined by flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry to further investigate their properties and cytotoxic capabilities and their correlation with regulatory T cells(Tregs)in the tumor immune microenvironment(TIME).mIHC and flow cytometry analysis showed that TCF1−Texterm represented a greater proportion of CD8+PD1+Tex than TCF1+Texprog in most ***1+Texprog produced abundant TNFα,while TCF1−Texterm expressed higher levels of CD103,TIM-3,CTLA-4,and ***1−Texterm exhibited a polyfunctional TNFα+GZMB+IFNγ+phenotype;and were associated with better overall survival and recurrence-free *** results also indicated that larger proportions of TCF1−Texterm were accompanied by an increase in the proportion of ***,it was concluded that TCF1−Texterm was the major CD8+PD1+Tex subset in the HNSCC TIME and that these cells favor patient survival.A high proportion of TCF1−Texterm was associated with greater Treg abundance.