Journal: Microbiome

Article Title: Tumor-colonized Streptococcus mutans metabolically reprograms tumor microenvironment and promotes oral squamous cell carcinoma.

doi: 10.1186/s40168-024-01907-9

Figure Lengend Snippet: Fig. 5 Single-cell transcriptomic landscape reveals the shift of the cellular types during oral carcinogenesis, and KYNA is a predominant driving force for expansions and infiltrations of neutrophils in the TME of OSCC. A Overview of the workflow for scRNA-seq analyses of OLK and OSCC rat tongue tissues. B UMAP plot of the clustering results for 13 major cell types from OLK and OSCC tissues. C Stacked histogram of the percentages of different cells from OLK and OSCC tissues. D Quantitative analysis of neutrophils, macrophages, and T cells in non-epithelial cells in OLK and OSCC tissues. E H&E and IHC staining for CD11b in OLK and OSCC tissues of experimental rats. Scale bar: 600 µm for 4 × magnification and 300 µm for 10 × magnification. F Representative IHC staining images and statistical analysis of CD16 in saline and KYNA-treated 4NQO rats. Scale bars: 200 µm for 10 × magnification and 50 µm for 40 × magnification. G Representative flow cytometry dot plots and statistical analysis of CD11b + CD16 + neutrophils from the peripheral blood of OSCC patients after KYNA treatment. H Relative SLC7A8 expression in neutrophils from OSCC patients after KYNA treatment detected by RT-qPCR. I Representative flow cytometry dot plots and statistical analysis of AHR + neutrophils from OSCC patients after treatments with KYNA in indicated concentrations. In D, unpaired Student’s t-test; E and F, Mann– Whitney U test; G, H, and I, one-way ANOVA

Article Snippet: At week 20, the rats were sacrificed, and the tongues were dissected, and a longitudinal mid-lingual incision was made. (4) IL-1β/PD-L1monoclonal antibody (mAb) intervention (8 rats/group): (A) 4NQO + IL-1β mAb (200 μg/rat, BE0246, cloneB122, Bioxcell, USA); (B) 4NQO + KYNA + IL-1β mAb; (C) 4NQO + PD-L1 mAb (200 μg/rat, BE0383, clone 368A.4H1, Bioxcell, USA); (D) 4NQO + KYNA + PD-L1 mAb; (E) 4NQO + control IgG (200 μg/rat, BE0091, Bioxcell, USA).

Techniques: Immunohistochemistry, Saline, Flow Cytometry, Expressing, Quantitative RT-PCR, MANN-WHITNEY