Omics · study · 2026
Regulatory T cells Restrain CD4 T Cell Control of MHC-I-Deficient Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Emerging After PD-L1 Blockade [scRNA-seq]
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We investigate mechanisms of immunotherapy resistance in pancreatic cancer.
Description
PD-L1 blockade selects for metastatic tumor variants with defective IFNγ-inducible MHC-I due to epigenetic silencing of Tap1. Restoring MHC-I limits primary tumor growth but fails to prevent metastasis.
In contrast, regulatory T cell (TREG) depletion suppresses metastasis by unleashing CD4 T helper cells. Adoptive transfer of tumor-specific CD4 T cells impairs metastatic progression. Tumor-specific CD4 T cells in lymph nodes preferentially adopt a TCF1⁺SLAMF6⁺ precursor state.
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Intratumoral TREG targeting with anti–CTLA-4 abrogates metastasis, drives accumulation of stem-like, tissue-resident helper CD4 T cells, producing a gene signature associated with improved patient outcomes. Combined CTLA-4 blockade and MHC-I restoration eliminates metastasis and prolongs animal survival. In human tumors, TREG and CD4 helper T cells co-localize and correlate with both tumor MHC-I expression and overall survival.
Together, these findings identify actionable mechanisms of immune evasion and metastasis in immunotherapy-resistant cancer.
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Get the data
- GEO FTP directory ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/GSE330nnn/GSE330011 ↗
download · from NCBI GEO
Where it is published
- GEO accession page ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE330011 ↗
landing page · from NCBI GEO
Documentation and papers
- PRJNA1462379 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA1462379 ↗
project · from NCBI GEO
- PubMed 42361199 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42361199 ↗
publication · from NCBI GEO
Topics
- Stated by source
- Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing · Mus musculus
- From keywords
- Life Sciences
- Inferred from text
- Cancer 75% · Single-cell RNA sequencing 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NCBI GEO | GSE330011 | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[disease].local:disease:cancer | enrichment · NCBI GEO | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[method].geo_series_type:expression-profiling-by-high-throughput-sequencing | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /gdstype |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:single-cell-rna-seq | enrichment · NCBI GEO | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[organism].NCBITaxon:10090 | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /taxon |
| description | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /summary |
| publication_date | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · NCBI GEO | connector:ncbi_geo@1.0.0 | /title |