Computational recognition of lncRNA signature of tumor-infiltrating B lymphocytes with potential implications in prognosis and immunotherapy of bladder cancer膀胱癌中利用计算的方法识别肿瘤浸润B淋巴细胞的lncRNA signature与预后和免疫治疗的联系9.101
Brief Bioinform . 2020 May 8;bbaa047. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbaa047. Online ahead of print.
Abstract
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been associated with cancer immunity regulation and the tumor microenvironment (TME). However, functions of lncRNAs of tumor-infiltrating B lymphocytes (TIL-Bs) and their clinical significance have not yet been fully elucidated. In the present study, a machine learning-based computational framework is presented for the identification of lncRNA signature of TIL-Bs (named 'TILBlncSig') through integrative analysis of immune, lncRNA and clinical profiles. The TILBlncSig comprising eight lncRNAs (TNRC6C-AS1, WASIR2, GUSBP11, OGFRP1, AC090515.2, PART1, MAFG-DT and LINC01184) was identified from the list of 141 B-cell-specific lncRNAs. The TILBlncSig was capable of distinguishing worse compared with improved survival outcomes across different independent patient datasets and was also independent of other clinical covariates. Functional characterization of TILBlncSig revealed it to be an indicator of infiltration of mononuclear immune cells (i.e. natural killer cells, B-cells and mast cells), and it was associated with hallmarks of cancer, as well as immunosuppressive phenotype. Furthermore, the TILBlncSig revealed predictive value for the survival outcome and immunotherapy response of patients with anti-programmed death-1 (PD-1) therapy and added significant predictive power to current immune checkpoint gene markers. The present study has highlighted the value of the TILBlncSig as an indicator of immune cell infiltration in the TME from a noncoding RNA perspective and strengthened the potential application of lncRNAs as predictive biomarkers of immunotherapy response, which warrants further investigation.
Keywords: immunotherapy; long noncoding RNAs; tumor-infiltrating B lymphocytes.
已经有研究表明lncRNA与肿瘤免疫调节和微环境(TME)相关联。该工作提出了一种基于机器学习的方法,通过整合分析免疫、lncRNA和临床特征来鉴定肿瘤浸润B细胞(TIL-B)的lncRNA signature(简称TILBlncSig)。从141个B细胞特异的lncRNA中发现八个lncRNA(TNRC6C-AS1,WASIR2,GUSBP11,OGFRP1,AC090515.2,PART1,MAFG-DT和LINC01184)可以作为预后signature。且在不同的独立数据集中进行生存分析得到验证。TILBlncSig的功能表明它可以作为单核免疫细胞(即NK细胞,B细胞和肥大细胞)浸润的指标。此外,TILBlncSig对于抗PD-1治疗的患者生存和免疫治疗反应的预测存在一定的临床价值。总而言之。从lncRNA的角度发现TILBlncSig作为TME中免疫细胞浸润的指标的价值,证实lncRNA可作为免疫治疗反应的预测生物标志物。
图1. 工作流程
图7. TILBlncSig在基于免疫检查点抑制剂的免疫治疗中的意义
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