Liu, XiaowenYue, ZongliangCao, YimouTaylor, LaurenZhang, QingChoi, Sung W.Hanash, SamirIto, SawaChen, Jake YueWu, HuanmeiPaczesny, Sophie2019-10-142019-10-142019Liu, X., Yue, Z., Cao, Y., Taylor, L., Zhang, Q., Choi, S. W., … Paczesny, S. (2019). Graft-Versus-Host Disease-Free Antitumoral Signature After Allogeneic Donor Lymphocyte Injection Identified by Proteomics and Systems Biology. JCO precision oncology, 3, 10.1200/po.18.00365. doi:10.1200/po.18.00365https://hdl.handle.net/1805/21164PURPOSE: As a tumor immunotherapy, allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation with subsequent donor lymphocyte injection (DLI) aims to induce the graft-versus-tumor (GVT) effect but often also leads to acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Plasma tests that can predict the likelihood of GVT without GVHD are still needed. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We first used an intact-protein analysis system to profile the plasma proteome post-DLI of patients who experienced GVT and acute GVHD for comparison with the proteome of patients who experienced GVT without GVHD in a training set. Our novel six-step systems biology analysis involved removing common proteins and GVHD-specific proteins, creating a protein-protein interaction network, calculating relevance and penalty scores, and visualizing candidate biomarkers in gene networks. We then performed a second proteomics experiment in a validation set of patients who experienced GVT without acute GVHD after DLI for comparison with the proteome of patients before DLI. We next combined the two experiments to define a biologically relevant signature of GVT without GVHD. An independent experiment with single-cell profiling in tumor antigen-activated T cells from a patient with post-hematopoietic cell transplantation relapse was performed. RESULTS: The approach provided a list of 46 proteins in the training set, and 30 proteins in the validation set were associated with GVT without GVHD. The combination of the two experiments defined a unique 61-protein signature of GVT without GVHD. Finally, the single-cell profiling in activated T cells found 43 of the 61 genes. Novel markers, such as RPL23, ILF2, CD58, and CRTAM, were identified and could be extended to other antitumoral responses. CONCLUSION: Our multiomic analysis provides, to our knowledge, the first human plasma signature for GVT without GVHD. Risk stratification on the basis of this signature would allow for customized treatment plans.en-USPublisher PolicyAllogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantationDonor lymphocyte injectionGraft-versus-tumor (GVT) effectGraft-versus-host disease (GVHD)Article