Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: PD-1/CD80 + small extracellular vesicles from immunocytes induce cold tumours featured with enhanced adaptive immunosuppression
doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48200-9
Figure Lengend Snippet: a A TEM image of circulating sEVs from HNSCC patients, showing the cup-shape spherical morphology of sEVs. n = 3 biologically independent samples. Scale bar, 200 nm. sEVs small extracellular vesicles, TEM transmission electron microscope, HNSCC head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. b Determination of particle size distribution in purified sEVs using nanoparticle tracking analysis. c Heat map illustrating the levels of immune checkpoint proteins (CD80, PD-1, PD-L1, CTLA-4, CD86, LAG-3 and TIM-3) on circulating sEVs from healthy donors (HDs, n = 36) and HNSCC patients (n = 46) were shown on the left. Blue and red hatches indicate HD and HNSCC patients, respectively. Bar plots show bootstrap importance scores based on random forest model that distinguish HDs and HNSCC patients, higher values (red) represent stronger association with HNSCC (right). Nanoparticle flow cytometry analysis of pretreatment levels of immune checkpoint proteins PD-L1 ( d ), PD-1 ( e ), and CD80 ( f ) on circulating sEVs from responders (R, n = 12) and non-responders (NR, n = 11). Overall survival for HNSCC patients with high and low levels of circulating sEV PD-1 ( g ) and CD80 ( h ). Log-rank test. i Pie Chart showing the proportion of circulating sEV PD-1 High , sEV CD80 High , and sEV PD-1 High CD80 High in HNSCC patients (n = 46). j Nanoparticle flow cytometry analysis of PD-1 and CD80 expression in sEVs after purification. Left, the gating strategy. Right, the Venn diagram illustrating the percentages of PD-1 + sEVs, CD80 + sEVs and PD-1 + CD80 + sEVs in HNSCC patients. For ( d , e , f) Data were presented as mean ± s.d.; Two-sided t -test. The relevant raw data are provided as a file.
Article Snippet: The plates were then incubated with capture antibody against PD-L1 (Clone 5H1-A3, Millipore) and biotinylated monoclonal PD-L1 antibody (Clone MIH1, eBioscience). sEV PD-1 and sEV CD80 were quantified using the human PD-1 and CD80 ELISA kit (for PD-1 catalogue number DY1086, for CD80 catalogue number DY140) from R&D Systems (Minneapolis, MN).
Techniques: Transmission Assay, Microscopy, Purification, Flow Cytometry, Expressing