12–17 Jul 2026
University of Graz
Europe/Vienna timezone

The co-evolution of a tumour’s genomic landscape and TCR repertoire

MS117-03
13 Jul 2026, 17:40
20m
15.04 - HS (University of Graz)

15.04 - HS

University of Graz

195

Speaker

Isabella Sodi (University College London)

Description

Cancer–immune co-evolution shapes tumour progression and immunotherapy
response, but quantitatively linking immune selection pressure to genomic intratumour heterogeneity and to the tumour-infiltrating T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire remains challenging. Central to this challenge is recognising that immune selection drives a dynamic process in which the TCR repertoire both shapes and is shaped by the evolving tumour genomic landscape.

We set out to identify immune evasion signatures in one of the largest sets of TCR repertoires from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We performed bulk TCR sequencing on multi-region tumour samples from 265 NSCLC patients in the TRACERx 421 cohort, comprising 1.27 million unique TCRα and 2.5 million TCRβ chains.

A conceptual expectation of cancer–immune co-evolution predicts that the number of mutations is correlated with the number of expanded T-cell clones, previously shown in a smaller subset of the cohort \cite{joshi}. Using data analysis alongside an agent-based model of tumour–immune co-evolution, we investigate the contexts in which this relationship holds. The model links mutation accumulation to T-cell clonal expansion and allows us to explore how immune evasion mechanisms, such as MHC loss and checkpoint mediated immune suppression, perturb this relationship \cite{puttick,martinez-ruiz}. The analysis of the TRACERx 421 genomic, transcriptional and TCR repertoire data reveals foundational principles for the relationship between tumour evolution and host immune control.

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journal = {Nature},
volume = {616},
number = {7957},
pages = {543--552},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
doi = {10.1038/s41586-023-05706-4},
keywords = {Cancer evolution,Priority Read,To read,TracerX},
}

Author

Isabella Sodi (University College London)

Co-authors

Gayathri Nageswaran (University College London) Suzanne Byrne (University College London) Trupti Gore (University College London) Selvaraju Veeriah (Francis Crick Institute) Andrew Pyo (Stanford University) Daniel Fisher (Stanford University) Andreas Tiffeau-Mayer (University College London) TRACERx Consortium Mariam Jamal-Hanjani (Francis Crick Institute) Charles Swanton (Francis Crick Institute) Benny Chain (University College London)

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