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EPEN-08. THE TREM1 POSITIVE HYPOXIC MYELOID SUBPOPULATION IN POSTERIOR FOSSA EPENDYMOMA

Willard, Nicholas; Donson, Andrew; Ritzmann, Timothy; Grundy, Richard; Jackson, Andrew; Hankinson, Todd; Griesinger, Andrea; Foreman, Nicholas

Authors

Nicholas Willard

Andrew Donson

RICHARD GRUNDY richard.grundy@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Paediatric Neuro-Oncology

Todd Hankinson

Andrea Griesinger

Nicholas Foreman



Abstract

We have previously shown the importance of immune factors in posterior fossa ependymoma (PF EPN). Recently, we found eight transcriptionally unique subpopulations of myeloid cells infiltrating PF EPN with one population particularly enriched in PFA1 tumors. This subpopulation, denoted as hypoxia myeloid subpopulation, is defined by genes associated with angiogenesis, hypoxia response, wound healing, cell migration, neutrophil activation, and response to oxygen levels. TREM1 (Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1) was found to be expressed almost exclusively within this hypoxia myeloid subpopulation. TREM1 encodes for a receptor belonging to the immunoglobulin superfamily that is expressed on myeloid cells, and stimulates neutrophil and monocyte inflammatory responses. However, single-cell RNAseq give little data suggesting location of cells within the tumor microenvironment. We performed immunohistochemistry (IHC) on our bank of ~90 FFPE PFA EPN samples using TREM1 to characterize and identify the location of the hypoxia myeloid cells. The TREM1 positive cells have an ambiguous cytomorphology reminiscent of a monocyte with modest cytoplasm and a mono-lobated nucleus. IHC also showed that TREM1+ myeloid cells are largely localized to the interface of necrosis and viable tissue, most frequently in a perivascular and intravascular distribution. The latter finding suggests that the TREM1+ cells are derived from the bone marrow and that they may be associated with the mesenchymal tumor population (MEC), which we have previously described as being enriched in PFA1 tumors and localizing to perinecrotic zones. This is supported by parallel IHC analysis of subpopulation-specific markers in the same cohort of PFA EPN which showed the highest TREM1 correlation was with CAIX, a marker of MEC. In PFA matched primary/recurrent pairs, the proportion of TREM1+ cells were increased at recurrence in the majority of cases, suggesting an evolving interaction between this TREM1+ hypoxia myeloid subpopulation and neoplastic cells over the disease course.

Citation

Willard, N., Donson, A., Ritzmann, T., Grundy, R., Jackson, A., Hankinson, T., …Foreman, N. (2021). EPEN-08. THE TREM1 POSITIVE HYPOXIC MYELOID SUBPOPULATION IN POSTERIOR FOSSA EPENDYMOMA. Neuro-Oncology, 23(Supplement 1), i15. https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noab090.058

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 1, 2021
Online Publication Date Jun 1, 2021
Publication Date Jun 1, 2021
Deposit Date Nov 7, 2022
Publicly Available Date Nov 8, 2022
Journal Neuro-Oncology
Print ISSN 1522-8517
Electronic ISSN 1523-5866
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Volume 23
Issue Supplement 1
Pages i15
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noab090.058
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/13181172
Publisher URL https://academic.oup.com/neuro-oncology/article/23/Supplement_1/i15/6288230

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