TCRi: Information theoretic metrics for single cell RNA and TCR sequencing in cancer
Ceglia, N.; Sethna, Z. M.; Elhanati, Y.; Burman, B.; Chow, A.; Zamarin, D.; DeWolf, S.; Shahid, S.; Bojilova, V.; Rusk, N.; Balachandran, V. P.; McPherson, A.; Shah, S. P.; Greenbaum, B. D.
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Single-cell T cell repertoire sequencing can pair both T cell receptor (TCR) and gene expression sequence data, providing an enriched view of T cell behavior. This powerful tool can identify and characterize specific clonotypes and phenotypes as well as track their changes in response to therapy, such as immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). We present a novel information theoretic framework called TCRi for characterizing single cell T cell repertoires by formalizing the relationship between clonotype and phenotype in a joint probability distribution. Our strategy allows for the identification of subpopulations of T cells and jointly quantifies their TCR and expression profiles in response to stimuli, in addition the framework tracks the phenotypic changes in individual T cell clones over time. We applied this framework to four datasets of T cells sequenced from cancer patients treated with anti-PD-(L)1 ICB immunotherapies and examined evolution of T cell responses pre- and post-treatment. Quantitative of phenotypic and clonotypic entropy analysis with TCRi demonstrated improvements in characterization of the transcriptional signature of clonotypes. Furthermore, TCRi highlighted the importance of phenotypic flux and specific T-cell phenotypes as determinants of therapeutic response.
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