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- Title
De novo prediction of cancer-associated T cell receptors for noninvasive cancer detection.
- Authors
Beshnova, Daria; Ye, Jianfeng; Onabolu, Oreoluwa; Moon, Benjamin; Zheng, Wenxin; Fu, Yang-Xin; Brugarolas, James; Lea, Jayanthi; Li, Bo
- Abstract
A deeper look at cancer immunity: A key goal in oncology is diagnosing cancer early, when it is more treatable. Despite decades of progress, early diagnosis of asymptomatic patients remains a major challenge. Most methods for this involve detecting cancer cells or their DNA, but Beshnova et al. suggested a different approach, focused on the body's immune response. The authors reasoned that the presence of cancer may cause alterations in the T cell receptor repertoire, which could then be detected. They designed a deep learning method for distinguishing the T cell repertoires in the blood of patients with and without cancer, which they validated in samples from multiple clinical cohorts. The adaptive immune system recognizes tumor antigens at an early stage to eradicate cancer cells. This process is accompanied by systemic proliferation of the tumor antigen–specific T lymphocytes. While detection of asymptomatic early-stage cancers is challenging due to small tumor size and limited somatic alterations, tracking peripheral T cell repertoire changes may provide an attractive solution to cancer diagnosis. Here, we developed a deep learning method called DeepCAT to enable de novo prediction of cancer-associated T cell receptors (TCRs). We validated DeepCAT using cancer-specific or non-cancer TCRs obtained from multiple major histocompatibility complex I (MHC-I) multimer-sorting experiments and demonstrated its prediction power for TCRs specific to cancer antigens. We blindly applied DeepCAT to distinguish over 250 patients with cancer from over 600 healthy individuals using blood TCR sequences and observed high prediction accuracy, with area under the curve (AUC) ≥ 0.95 for multiple early-stage cancers. This work sets the stage for using the peripheral blood TCR repertoire for noninvasive cancer detection.
- Subjects
T cell receptors; TUMOR antigens; FORECASTING; MAJOR histocompatibility complex; T cells; SOMATIC mutation
- Publication
Science Translational Medicine, 2020, Vol 12, Issue 557, p1
- ISSN
1946-6234
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1126/scitranslmed.aaz3738