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Stimulation of tumor infiltrating B-cells improves ex-vivo TIL expansion for melanoma sample immunotherapy I

GSE217387 Homo sapiens (human) RNA-seq (gene expression) 20 samples Submitted 2024/06/30 Platform GPL30173
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · human · 20 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Topic
MelanomaThis series is part of our curated briefing on it.
Samples
20 samples: 20 × FFPE, RNA-seq, 06SGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
CD40L stimulates tumor-infiltrating B-cells and improves ex vivo TIL expansionJournal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2025
Summary (written by the submitters)
Many studies have shown association of tumor infiltrating B-cells and presence of tertiary lymphoid structure with improved clinical responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy. We hypothesized that their presence could also have an impact on TIL therapy response. To address this, we performed RNA-seq of FFPE samples from a cohort of patients that received TIL therapy.
Read the full summary ↓
Melanoma tumors collected prior to TIL infusion were evaluated for immune content in 9 responders and 11 non-responders to TIL therapy. Our data demonstrate an increase in class-switched memory B-cells in responders compared with non-responders to TIL therapy. In the myeloid compartment, increased presence of dendritic cell populations (pDC, aDC, and iDC) and basophils was observed in responders to TIL therapy, as well as higher content of γδ T cells and effector memory CD8+ T cells (CD8+ Tem) in the T-cell compartment. Next, we assessed the TLS presence in the same cohort by a gene expression signature of 12 chemokines using principal component analysis. The responders showed a higher TLS score compared with the non-responder patients, suggesting that patients responding to TIL therapy had more TLS in their tumors than the non-responder patients. These observations indicate that, same as in the immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy response, presence of B-cells and TLS might have a positive impact in the clinical outcome to TIL therapy.
Published in
CD40L stimulates tumor-infiltrating B-cells and improves ex vivo TIL expansion
Rossetti RAM, Tordesillas L, Beatty MS et al. · Journal for immunotherapy of cancer 2025 · PMID 40199608 · doi:10.1136/jitc-2024-011066
This dataset
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Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE217387_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA898785 and SRA study SRP406500. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
20 × FFPE, RNA-seq, 06S

Supports a between-group comparison across 20 samples.

How we read this: 1 replicated groups read from 20 sample titles; they account for 20 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

Samples in this study
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