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Distinct Cellular Mechanisms Underlie Chemotherapies and Their Combinations with PD-L1 Checkpoint Inhibitor in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer [TNBC]

GSE266919 Homo sapiens (human) Single-cell RNA-seq 117 samples Submitted 2025/02/12 Platform GPL24676Platform GPL24247
At a glance

Single-cell RNA-seq · human · 117 samples

What it is
Single-cell RNA-seqGene activity measured in thousands of individual cells, so cell types can be told apart. Read from the summary: GEO's own type field only says 'expression profiling by sequencing', so confirm it in the paper.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Topic
Breast cancerThis series is part of our curated briefing on it.
Samples
117 samples: 117 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groupsGroups 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
Distinct cellular mechanisms underlie chemotherapies and PD-L1 blockade combinations in triple-negative breast cancerCancer cell · 2025
Summary (written by the submitters)
The combination of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) and chemotherapy holds promise for treating triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), yet the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Here, we integrated previously published and newly generated single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data to investigate the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) in advanced TNBC patients receiving various therapies, including paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel, and their combinations with an anti-PD-L1 antibody atezolizumab.
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Notably, compared to atezolizumab plus paclitaxel, atezolizumab plus nab-paclitaxel primarily rewired TCF7+ stem-like effector memory CD8 T cells (Tsem) and CD4 follicular helper T (Tfh) cells. Nab-paclitaxel, but not paclitaxel, predominantly modulated the myeloid compartment, expanding mast cells and pro-inflammatory macrophage subsets. Our analyses in human TNBC and murine models highlighted the crucial role of mast cells in orchestrating anti-tumor immune responses, likely by recruiting and activating T cells and B cells. In vivo experiments demonstrated that activating mast cells alongside PD-L1 blockade significantly attenuated tumor progression, suggesting mast cells as a promising adjunct for enhancing ICB therapy efficacy.
Published in
Distinct cellular mechanisms underlie chemotherapies and PD-L1 blockade combinations in triple-negative breast cancer
Zhang Y, Chen H, Mo H et al. · Cancer cell 2025 · PMID 39919737 · doi:10.1016/j.ccell.2025.01.007
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

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 GSE266919_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: Single-cell studies usually ship their counts as 10x files (matrix.mtx, barcodes.tsv, features.tsv), an .h5 file, or an .rds / .h5ad object that Seurat or Scanpy can open. Look for those among the supplementary files.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1108722. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
117 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groups

Any grouping that defines a comparison lives in the sample characteristics, which GEO records separately from the titles.

How we read this: Read from 117 sample titles: 117 distinct titles with little repetition. 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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