Abstract

Immunogenomic alterations of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas stratified by smoking status.

Highlights

  • To confirm the specific immune phenotypes that were associated with smoking in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) at a higher resolution, we accessed and reanalyzed a sophisticated single-cell RNAsequencing dataset of HNSCC with comprehensive infiltrated immune cell profiling.[9]

  • It is worth noting that we identified a unique subset of CD8T cells (CD8T-IFI) that express high levels of interferon-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats (IFIT) genes (Figure 2E)

  • The statistical analysis showed the smoking HNSCC samples had a lower fraction of CD8T-IFI, NK cell, and pDC, all of which were generally considered as interferons-production cells (Figure 2F)

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Summary

Introduction

Revealed that interferon-mediated signaling signature scores significantly decreased in smoking HNSCC samples (Figure 1H). Our results demonstrated a strong correlation between smoking and dysregulated interferon signaling pathways in HNSCC. To characterize the cell-level difference of immunological response to tumors between smoking and non-smoking HNSCC samples, we employed two cell-deconvolution algorithms (CIBERSORT7 and XCELL8) to estimate infiltrating immune cell abundances based on the RNA-seq profile of TCGA HNSCC dataset.

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