Cell-autonomous immune gene expression is repressed in pulmonary neuroendocrine cells and small cell lung cancer

oleh: Ling Cai, Hongyu Liu, Fang Huang, Junya Fujimoto, Luc Girard, Jun Chen, Yongwen Li, Yu-An Zhang, Dhruba Deb, Victor Stastny, Karine Pozo, Christin S. Kuo, Gaoxiang Jia, Chendong Yang, Wei Zou, Adeeb Alomar, Kenneth Huffman, Mahboubeh Papari-Zareei, Lin Yang, Benjamin Drapkin, Esra A. Akbay, David S. Shames, Ignacio I. Wistuba, Tao Wang, Jane E. Johnson, Guanghua Xiao, Ralph J. DeBerardinis, John D. Minna, Yang Xie, Adi F. Gazdar

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-03-01

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Ling Cai et al. used transcriptomic profiling data of healthy lung, patient-derived small cell lung cancer cell lines, xenografts, and primary tumors to examine a link between neuroendocrine (NE) signatures and immune gene expression. Their findings suggest that cell-autonomous immune gene repression is a shared feature between healthy and tumor cells of NE lineage and may influence tumor-immune cell interaction and response to immunotherapy.