Single-cell profiling reveals the importance of CXCL13/ CXCR5 axis biology in lymphocyte-rich classic Hodgkin lymphoma

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Lymphocyte-rich classic Hodgkin lymphoma (LR-CHL) is a rare subtype of Hodgkin lymphoma. Recent technical advances have allowed for the characterization of specific cross-talk mechanisms between malignant Hodgkin Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells and different normal immune cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) of CHL. However, the TME of LR-CHL has not yet been characterized at single-cell resolution. Here, using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), we examined the immune cell profile of 8 cell suspension samples of LRCHL in comparison to 20 samples of the mixed cellularity (MC, 9 cases) and nodular sclerosis (NS, 11 cases) subtypes of CHL, as well as 5 reactive lymph node controls. We also performed multicolor immunofluorescence (MC-IF) on tissue microarrays from the same patients and an independent validation cohort of 31 pretreatment LR-CHL samples. ScRNA-seq analysis identified a unique CD4+ helper T cell subset in LR-CHL characterized by high expression of Chemo-kine C-X-C motif ligand 13 (CXCL13) and PD-1. PD-1+CXCL13+ T cells were significantly enriched in LR-CHL compared to other CHL subtypes, and spatial analyses revealed that in 46% of the LR-CHL cases these cells formed rosettes surrounding HRS cells. MC-IF analysis revealed CXCR5+ normal B cells in close proximity to CXCL13+ T cells at significantly higher levels in LR-CHL. Moreover, the abundance of PD-1+CXCL13+ T cells in the TME was significantly associated with shorter progression-free survival in LR-CHL (P = 0.032). Taken together, our findings strongly suggest the pathogenic importance of the CXCL13/CXCR5 axis and PD-1+CXCL13+ T cells as a treatment target in LR-CHL.

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Aoki, T., Chong, L. C., Takata, K., Milne, K., Marshall, A., Chavez, E. A., … Steidl, C. (2021). Single-cell profiling reveals the importance of CXCL13/ CXCR5 axis biology in lymphocyte-rich classic Hodgkin lymphoma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(41). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105822118

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