• Medicine · May 2024

    Correlations between the modification patterns mediated by pyroptosis-related genes, tumor microenvironment, and immunotherapy in soft tissue sarcoma.

    • Yang Cai, Jinzhi Meng, Yue Qiu, Xing Huang, Huawei Du, and Jun Yao.
    • Bone and Joint Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, People's Republic of China.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 May 17; 103 (20): e38173e38173.

    AbstractSoft tissue sarcoma (STS) incidence, progression, and metastasis are tightly linked to the tumor microenvironment (TME). The modification patterns mediated by pyroptosis-related genes (PRGs) in STS are unknown regarding the immune cell infiltration landscape of TME, immunotherapy effect, and prognostic value. First, we downloaded STS samples from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and gene-expression omnibus (GEO) databases. Based on 52 PRGs, 2 pyroptosis modification patterns were analyzed, and the associations of pyroptosis modification patterns with immune cell infiltration in the TME were elucidated systematically. To quantify PRG modification patterns in STS patients, we generated a pyroptosis scoring system using principal component analysis (PCA). We identified 2 distinct pyroptosis modification patterns in STS. Compared to PRG cluster A, the prognosis of cluster B was better. These 2 pyroptosis modification patterns corresponded to different characteristics of immune cell infiltration in the TME and biological behaviors. In the pyroptosis scoring system, a high pyroptosis score was connected to higher immune cell infiltration, stronger immune surveillance, immune-killing effects on tumor cells, and better clinical benefits. The results from 3 anti-PD1/PD-L1-treated immune cohorts demonstrated that higher pyroptosis scores are also closely connected to better immunotherapy results. We demonstrated that pyroptosis modification is essential to the STS microenvironment. Moreover, the pyroptosis score is a reliable and independent prognostic factor in STS patients, enabling a richer understanding of the STS microenvironment and the screening of immunotherapy candidates, predicting the immunotherapeutic effects for individual STS patients, and guiding the use of chemotherapy drugs.Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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