Journal: EMBO Reports
Article Title: Plasma fractalkine contributes to systemic myeloid diversity and PD‐L1 / PD ‐1 blockade in lung cancer
doi: 10.15252/embr.202255884
Figure Lengend Snippet: A Baseline plasma FKN concentrations in responders (R, n = 13) and progressors (PR, n = 5) in a validation cohort of NSCLC patients treated with anti‐PD‐1/PD‐L1 immunotherapy as a first‐line treatment. Error bars are shown (standard deviations, SD). Statistical significance was tested by the chi‐square test. B, C (B) Representative double lung immunostainings for Pan‐Cytokeratin (PanCK) (brown) and FKN (blue; red arrows indicate FKN positive cells) in lung tissue sections from LUAD patients and (C) adjacent healthy tissue. D, E (D) Pearson's correlation of PanCK with FKN positive areas (%) in histologies of adjacent nontumor and (E) LUAD tissues. Pearson's correlation coefficients are shown in the graphs. n = 10. F FKN mRNA expression level in tumor (T) and normal tissue (N) of clinical samples from lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and squamous lung carcinoma (LUSC) patients registered in the TCGA database. Distributions of gene expression levels are displayed using box plots. Box and whisker plots indicate median (central line), 25 th to 75 th percentiles (box), and minimum to maximum values (whiskers). G Top, lentivectors for the expression of cytokines of interest. SIN, self‐inactivating deleted LTR; LTR, long‐terminal repeat; SFFVp, spleen focus‐forming virus promoter; UBIp, human ubiquitin promoter; Puro R, puromycin resistance gene. Down, ELISA quantification of cytokine secretion by the indicated engineered lung cancer cell lines expressing the indicated cytokines (T). Endogenous secretion of each cytokine was also quantified in supernatants from cultures of parental unmodified controls (UT). Data are presented as mean ± SD ( n = 3 independent biological replicates). H Real‐time cell growth (RTCA) of 3LL cell lines engineered to secrete the indicated cytokines. Relevant statistical comparisons of delta‐cell indexes after 50 h of culture were carried out by ANOVA. Data are presented as mean ± SD ( n = 3 independent biological replicates). I Real‐time cell growth (RTCA) of unmodified and FKN‐producing 3LL cell lines cultured with 1 μg/ml of recombinant FKN (rFKN). J Flow cytometric assessment of propidium iodide (PI) uptake by apoptotic unmodified 3LL cells cultured in 3LL‐WT (control) or 3LL‐FKN (FKN) conditioned medium for 24, 48, or 72 h. Data information: The statistical significance computed by the Wilcoxon test is annotated by the number of stars. *, **, *** indicate significant ( P < 0.05), very significant ( P < 0.01) and highly significant ( P < 0.001) differences.
Article Snippet: The indicated 3LL cell lines (1.5 × 10 6 cells/mouse; n = 6 mice/group) were subcutaneously injected in the flanks of 10‐week‐old C57BL/6 female and male mice (Envigo).
Techniques: Clinical Proteomics, Biomarker Discovery, Expressing, Gene Expression, Whisker Assay, Virus, Ubiquitin Proteomics, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Cell Culture, Recombinant, Control