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Tumor Microenvironment Characterization in Gastric Cancer Identifies Prognostic and Immunotherapeutically Relevant Gene Signatures
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Tumor microenvironment (TME) cells constitute a vital element of tumor tissue. Increasing evidence has elucidated their clinicopathologic significance in predicting outcomes and therapeutic efficacy. Nonetheless, no studies have reported a systematic analysis of cellular interactions in the TME. In this study, we comprehensively estimated the TME infiltration patterns of 1,524 gastric cancer patients and systematically correlated the TME phenotypes with genomic characteristics and clinicopathologic features of gastric cancer using two proposed computational algorithms. Three TME phenotypes were defined, and the TMEscore was constructed using principal component analysis algorithms. The high TMEscore subtype was characterized by immune activation and response to virus and IFNγ. Activation of transforming growth factor β, epithelial–mesenchymal transition, and angiogenesis pathways were observed in the low TMEscore subtype, which are considered T-cell suppressive and may be responsible for significantly worse prognosis in gastric cancer [hazard ratio (HR), 0.42; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.33–0.54; P < 0.001]. Multivariate analysis revealed that the TMEscore was an independent prognostic biomarker, and its value in predicting immunotherapeutic outcomes was also confirmed (IMvigor210 cohort: HR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.46–0.89; P = 0.008; GSE78220 cohort: HR, 0.25; 95% CI, 0.07–0.89; P = 0.021). Depicting a comprehensive landscape of the TME characteristics of gastric cancer may, therefore, help to interpret the responses of gastric tumors to immunotherapies and provide new strategies for the treatment of cancers.
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“We at that point characterize the index employing a strategy comparable to GGI (12, 13): Index =o(PC1i + PC2i) Where i represents the expression of PRRs.”
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“…the cytokines and chemokines characterizing different risk groups were extracted from the published literature (Barbie et al., 2009; Zeng et al., 2019), for example, PDGFRA, TGFB2, SMAD9, TWIST1, CLDN3, TGFBR2, ACTA2, COL4A1, ZEB1, and VIM are correlated with the transcripts of…”
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“In addition, we also analyzed immune checkpoint-related genes by the Wilcoxon test (Supplementary Tables S7–S8) (Ravi et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2019; Zeng et al., 2019; Yi et al., 2020).”
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“Tumor Microenvironment Assessment The TMEscore was estimated using principal component analysis (PCA) based on transcriptome data of genes associated with different TME phenotypes and prognoses in GC, as previously described (11), using the R package available in GitHub (https:// github.”
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“After that, we evaluated the TME score by 1https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ 2https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/ using a method similar to GGI (Sotiriou et al., 2006; Zeng et al., 2019).”
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“Therefore, studies investigating the immune microenvironment or immune gene-related prognostic biomarkers, which have been identified in cervical cancer (15), lung adenocarcinoma (16), and cancers of the digestive system (17) are warranted.”
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“Zeng et al. revealed that infiltrating immune cell was an independent prognostic biomarker in GC, and estimated its value in predicting chemotherapeutic and immunotherapeutic outcomes [32,33].”
BackgroundThe distinct roles of exosomes in tumor-stroma crosstalk within gastric tumor microenvironment
Zhang, H., Yang, M., Wu, X., Li, Q., Li, X., Zhao, Y., Du, F., Chen, Y., Wu, Z., Xiao, Z., et al. (2021) · Pharmacological Research · doi:10.1016/j.phrs.2021.105785 · Cited by 23
Self-citationGARP Correlates With Tumor-Infiltrating T-Cells and Predicts the Outcome of Gastric Cancer
Jiang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Lu, B., Sun, P., Wu, Q., Ding, X., & Huang, J. (2021) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2021.660397 · Cited by 25
“The variations in the phenotype of tumor-infiltrating immune cells and their relationship with prognosis highlight the clinical significance of the crosstalk between tumor cells and TME (34).”
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MethodYe, F., Liang, Y., Hu, J., Hu, Y. Y., Liu, Y., Zhang, C., Ou, Y., Xu, C., & Jiang, H. (2021) · Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology · doi:10.3389/fcell.2021.760369 · Cited by 25
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“Then, based on previous research [15, 16], the m6A score was calculated using the formula:”
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“Subtypes vary with immune and TME scores, which in turn lead to different prognosis and immunotherapeutic responses (Zeng et al., 2019; DeBerardinis, 2020).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zeng, D., Li, M., Zhou, R., Zhang, J., Sun, H., Shi, M., Bin, J., Liao, Y., Rao, J., & Liao, W.
- Affiliations
- Nanfang Hospital (CN)
- Southern Medical University (CN)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cancer Immunology Research
- Published
- 2019-05-01
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 737-750
- ISSN
- 2326-6066 (ISSN-L)
- 2326-6074
- OpenAlex
- W2920600229
- Semantic Scholar
- 180648d1827a7e8c086f03b00ca69831a1ca538e
- Cited by
- 986
- References
- 76
- Citations by year
- 2026: 38 · 2025: 87 · 2024: 164 · 2023: 211 · 2022: 251 · 2021: 162 · 2020: 64 · 2019: 9
- FWCI
- 53.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cancer Immunology Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (81772580)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune cells in cancer
- Keywords
- gastric cancer, tumor microenvironment, prognostic factors, immunotherapy response, immune cell infiltration, T cell suppression, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, angiogenesis, TGF-beta signaling, IFN-gamma response, gene expression signatures, IMvigor210
- MeSH terms
- Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological, Algorithms, Humans, Immunotherapy, Phenotype, Prognosis, Stomach Neoplasms, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Tumor Microenvironment
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