Single-cell transcriptional pharmacodynamics of trifluridine in a tumor-immune model.

Selvin T, Fasterius E, Jarvius M, Fryknäs M, Larsson R, Andersson CR

Sci Rep 12 (1) 11960 [2022-07-13; online 2022-07-13]

Understanding the immunological effects of chemotherapy is of great importance, especially now that we have entered an era where ever-increasing pre-clinical and clinical efforts are put into combining chemotherapy and immunotherapy to combat cancer. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has proved to be a powerful technique with a broad range of applications, studies evaluating drug effects in co-cultures of tumor and immune cells are however scarce. We treated a co-culture comprised of human colorectal cancer (CRC) cells and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) with the nucleoside analogue trifluridine (FTD) and used scRNA-seq to analyze posttreatment gene expression profiles in thousands of individual cancer and immune cells concurrently. ScRNA-seq recapitulated major mechanisms of action previously described for FTD and provided new insight into possible treatment-induced effects on T-cell mediated antitumor responses.

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PubMed 35831404

DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-16077-7

Crossref 10.1038/s41598-022-16077-7

pmc: PMC9279337
pii: 10.1038/s41598-022-16077-7


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