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GABA promotes resistance to immunotherapy of patients with TLS-positive tumors [RNA-seq]

GSE273829 Homo sapiens (human) RNA-seq (gene expression) 92 samples Submitted 2026/07/08 Platform GPL24676
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · human · 92 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
Soft tissue sarcomaThis series is part of our curated briefing on it.
Samples
92 samples: 77 distinct titles, 5 of them repeatedGroups 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.
Summary (written by the submitters)
Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) correlate with favorable responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in various cancers, yet many patients with TLS-positive tumors are resistant to treatment. Multi-omic profiling of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) and soft tissue sarcoma tumors (STS) reveals an upregulation of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-related signatures in non-responders to ICI.
Read the full summary ↓
In ccRCC, TLS from non-responders located near GABA-producing tumor cells, exhibit impaired B cell maturation, reduced IgG production, higher GABA receptor expression and tricarboxylic acid cycle activation. In vitro, exposure of human B cells to GABA reduces HLA-DR expression, proliferation and immunoglobulin secretion by receptor independent and dependent mechanisms. Pharmacological inhibition of GABA-synthesis increases ICI response and immune infiltration, particularly by B cells, in a TLS-positive STS mouse model. Our findings unravel GABA as an immunoregulatory metabolite and provide a rationale for its therapeutic targeting to overcome ICI resistance in patients with TLS-positive tumors.
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 GSE273829_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 PRJNA1143431 and SRA study SRP523884. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
77 distinct titles, 5 of them repeated
ccRCC tumor bulk RNA-seq ×10 ccRCC tumor bulk RNA-seq f ×4 ccRCC tumor bulk RNA-seq 5f ×2 ccRCC tumor bulk RNA-seq 0c ×2 ccRCC tumor bulk RNA-seq e ×2

How we read this: Read from 92 sample titles: 77 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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