Journal: Cell Death & Disease
Article Title: Single-cell profiling of immune cells after neoadjuvant pembrolizumab and chemotherapy in IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
doi: 10.1038/s41419-022-05057-4
Figure Lengend Snippet: A The heatmap showing GSEA enrichment of the CXCL13, Tfh cell, and 12-chemokine signatures in treatment-naive, non-MPR, and MPR tumor tissues. P adj > 0.05 in the enrichment pathway was adjusted to 0 to draw the heat map. B The higher TLS density in neoadjuvant tumor lesions verified by mIHC staining in a single-cell sequencing cohort. C Higher intratumoral C2-CD4-IL7R and C4-CD4-TCF7 cluster proportions in neoadjuvant tumor lesions in scRNA profiles. D IL21 expression in different tissue types tested with Wilcoxon in scRNA profiles showing that IL21 was most prevalent in tumor tissues. **** p < 0.0001. E Go biological function analysis of the IL21 expression cells by clusterprofiler in scRNA profiles. F Flow cytometry of IL-21 in CD4 + T cells in tumor tissues. Data presented as mean ± SEM. Data were summarized from n = 8 treatment-naive, n = 5 non-MPR and n = 15 MPR tumor samples. P values were determined by ordinary one-way ANOVA. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, ns: not significant. G Comparison of paired plasma IL-21 before and after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy. P values were determined by Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test, two-tailed. * p < 0.05. H , I MIHC staining showing CD4 + IL21 + and IgG-positive cells were much abundant in MPR tumor tissues (image under 10× and 20×). Data presented as mean ± SEM. Data were summarized from n = 6 treatment-naive, n = 9 non-MPR and n = 18 MPR tumor samples. P values were determined by ordinary one-way ANOVA. * p < 0.05, ns: not significant.
Article Snippet: The primary antibodies and IHC metrics were: rabbit monoclonal anti-human CD4 antibody (Abcam, Cat# ab133616, diluted at 1:1000), rabbit monoclonal anti-human CD20 antibody (Abcam, Cat# ab78237, diluted at 1:2000), mouse monoclonal anti-human IgG antibody (Abcam, Cat# ab200699, diluted at 1:800), rabbit polyclonal anti-human IL-21 antibody (Invitrogen, Cat# PA5-34801, diluted at 1:2000), mouse monoclonal anti-human CD21 antibody (Invitrogen, Cat# MA5-11417, diluted at 1:200), mouse monoclonal anti-human FoxP3 antibody (Abcam, Cat# ab20034, diluted at 1:500), rabbit monoclonal anti-human IgG1 antibody (Abcam, Cat# ab108969, diluted at 1:1000), rabbit monoclonal anti-human IgG3 antibody (Abcam, Cat# ab193172, diluted at 1:800), recombinant rabbit monoclonal anti-human IgA antibody (Invitrogen, Cat# MA5-32575, diluted at 1:800).
Techniques: Staining, Sequencing, Expressing, Flow Cytometry, Two Tailed Test