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CD133+PD-L1+ cancer cells confer resistance to adoptively transferred engineered macrophage-based therapy in melanoma.

GSE285529 Mus musculus (mouse) RNA-seq (gene expression) 30 samples Submitted 2025/01/02 Platform GPL24247Platform GPL23479Platform GPL23227
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · mouse · 30 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
Mus musculus (mouse)
Topic
MelanomaThis series is part of our curated briefing on it.
Samples
30 samples: 9 conditions, mostly with about 4 replicates eachGroups 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
CD133(+)PD-L1(+) cancer cells confer resistance to adoptively transferred engineered macrophage-based therapy in melanomaNature communications · 2025
Summary (written by the submitters)
Adoptive transfer of genetically or nanoparticle-engineered macrophages represents a promising cell therapy modality for treatment of solid tumor. However, the therapeutic efficacy is suboptimal without achieving a complete tumor regression, and the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Here, we discover a subpopulation of cancer cells with upregulated CD133 and programmed death-ligand 1 in mouse melanoma, resistant to the phagocytosis by the transferred macrophages.
Read the full summary ↓
Compared to the CD133-PD-L1- cancer cells, the CD133+PD-L1+ cancer cells express higher transforming growth factor-β signaling molecules to foster a resistant tumor niche, that restricts the trafficking of the transferred macrophages by stiffened extracellular matrix, and inhibits their cell-killing capability by immunosuppressive factors. The CD133+PD-L1+ cancer cells exhibit tumorigenic potential. The CD133+PD-L1+ cells are further identified in the clinically metastatic melanoma. Hyperthermia reverses the resistance of CD133+PD-L1+ cancer cells through upregulating the ‘eat me’ signal calreticulin, significantly improving the efficacy of adoptive macrophage therapy. Our findings demonstrate the mechanism of resistance to adoptive macrophage therapy, and provide a de novo strategy to counteract the resistance.
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CD133(+)PD-L1(+) cancer cells confer resistance to adoptively transferred engineered macrophage-based therapy in melanoma
Xu J, Li Z, Tong Q et al. · Nature communications 2025 · PMID 39837811 · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-55876-0
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 GSE285529_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 PRJNA1204309 and SRA study SRP554425. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
9 conditions, mostly with about 4 replicates each
CD133-, ×4 CD133+, ×4 Un-hMΦ, ×4 NPs-hMΦ, ×4 Untreated day 8, ×3 NPs-MΦ1 day 16, ×3 NPs-MΦ1 day 35, ×3 CD133+PD-L1+, ×3 +1 more

Supports a between-group comparison across 30 samples.

How we read this: 9 replicated groups read from 30 sample titles; they account for 30 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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