Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Tumor-specific but immunosuppressive CD39(+)CD8(+) T cells exhibit double-faceted roles in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

  PMID 40961944 · PMC12629791 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD39+CD8+ TILs constitute a terminally exhausted, tumor-antigen-specific subset of CD8+ T cells

  memory sorted caix-specific cd39+pd-1bright scrna-seq bulk mhc

• TOPK Suppresses the CD8(+) T Cell Antitumor Immunity via Modulation of IRF5 Expression.

  PMID 41868885 · PMC13003159 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A TOPK+ subset of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T cells exists in melanoma at higher frequency than in normal lymph nodes and shows suppressed cytotoxic/cytokine programs.

  tumor-infiltrating melanoma b16-f10 unspecified scrna-seq flow multiplex

• Tumor reactivity assessment using clonal expression reveals tumor reactive CD8(+) T cell heterogeneity across solid tumors.

  PMID 42079667 · PMC13128579 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  TRACE, a clonotype-level CD8+ TRT classifier trained on an aggregated multi-study dataset, achieves robust holdout performance (mean MCC 0.84, F1 0.85)

  cd8+ expanded aggregated combined scrna-seq co-culture gene

• Lymphodepleting preconditioning impairs host antitumor immunity induced by adoptive T cell therapy in mouse models.

  PMID 41912536 · PMC13172322 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ACT with TCR-transgenic (OTI) CD8+ T cells eradicates established B16F10-OTI tumors and expands host CD8+ T cells with tumor-reactive (PD-1+GzmB-/PD-1+GzmB+, Tpex/Tex) and tissue-resident phenotypes

  b16f10-oti draining ragko c57bl flow tumor antibody

• Orthogonal cytokine engineering enables novel synthetic effector states escaping canonical exhaustion in tumor-rejecting CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 37081150 · PMC10154250 · Nature immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Orthogonal engineering with PD1d/IL-2v/IL-33 reprograms adoptively transferred CD8+ T cells into a novel synthetic effector state (C5/TSE) that deviates from canonical TOX+ exhaustion

  cd8+ b16-ova ot1 mice scrna-seq flow secretion

• PD-1 antibody-bound progenitor-exhausted CD8(+) T cells in lymph nodes boost PD-1-blockade anti-tumor immunity in gastrointestinal cancer.

  PMID 41951588 · PMC13237225 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Progenitor-exhausted CD8+ T cells (CD8-Tpex, TCF7+PDCD1+) are enriched in proximal lymph nodes and proliferate at a high rate after ICI treatment

  esophagogastric cancer surgically tcga scrna-seq scrna reanalysis

• ZFP148 is a transcriptional repressor of cytolytic effector CD8(+) T cell differentiation.

  PMID 41896465 · PMC13043298 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ZFP148 is enriched in CD8+ T progenitor (T PRO) cells and its expression declines during differentiation into effector (T EFF) and exhausted (T EX) cells

  p14 splenic cd8+ b16-gp scrna-seq flow tcr

• PRECISE-seq reveals disease-relevant TCR repertoires with phenotypic plasticity.

  PMID 42118153 · PMC13165028 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PRECISE-seq is a contact-dependent proximity labeling sequencing platform using Sortase A (SrtA)-catalyzed ligation to simultaneously profile antigen specificity, TCR potency, and phenotypic landscape at single-cell resolution

  hek293t k562-hla-a2 ot-i cd45.1+ flow

• Transient tumor exposure induces persistent functional defects in memory CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 42023146 · PMC13098610 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Memory CD8+ T cells generated after transient tumor rejection (Tum-CD8+) display a distinct, partially exhausted phenotype compared to virus-induced memory cells (Vir-CD8+)

  cd45.1 single-cell memory ctv flow single-cell cytokine

• Phased differentiation of γδ T and T CD8 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes revealed by single-cell transcriptomics of human cancers.

  PMID 34721945 · PMC8555559 · Oncoimmunology · 2021 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  In tumors, TCRVγnon9 γδ T cells (the majority γδ TIL subset) are quantitatively correlated and aligned with T CD8 cells for differentiation, exhaustion, gene expression profile, and response to immune checkpoint therapy

  pbmc tumor syngeneic scrnaseq cite-seq flow

• Ferroptotic tumor cells reprogram tumor-associated macrophage antigen presentation to enhance the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade.

  PMID 42061406 · PMC13198243 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Inducing tumor-cell ferroptosis enhances anti-tumor immunity by potentiating MHC-II-dependent antigen presentation in tumor-infiltrating macrophages

  mc38 hepa1-6 bmdms tumor bulk macrophage

• Heterogeneity and Differentiation Trajectories of Infiltrating CD8+ T Cells in Lung Adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 36358600 · PMC9658355 · Cancers · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Infiltrating CD8+ T cells in LUAD can be divided into ten transcriptionally distinct subsets: eight cytotoxic (CTL) subsets, one naive-like (NTL) subset, and one exhausted (ETL) subset.

  luad tcga cd8+ degs single-cell cibersort survival

• T cell-intrinsic VISTA expression promotes resistance to CTLA-4 blockade by restricting CD8+ T cell responses.

  PMID 41837284 · PMC12987620 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Loss of T cell-intrinsic VISTA enhances early priming and short-term expansion of CD8+ T cells but this initial advantage fails to confer durable tumor control

  tumor vsir cell-specific myeloid-specific flow adoptive peptide

• Hypoxia-driven remodeling of SELENOP(+) macrophages shapes T cell dynamics and promotes ovarian cancer metastasis.

  PMID 41526347 · PMC12852879 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SELENOP+ macrophages co-occur and spatially co-localize with precursor exhausted (GZMH+) CD8+ T cells and activate these T cells via selenoprotein P in vitro and in vivo.

  hgsoc million pseudo-bulk hgsoc-derived scrna-seq sctcr-seq spatial

• Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Characterization of Infiltrating T Cells in Moderately Differentiated Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 33584715 · PMC7873865 · Frontiers in immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Eight distinct T cell populations can be identified from CRC tumor tissue by unsupervised clustering of scRNA-seq data

  tumor-infiltrating peripheral cd4+ tumor single-cell unsupervised pearson

• Tumor methionine metabolism drives T-cell exhaustion in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 33674593 · PMC7935900 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A transcriptome-derived T-cell exhaustion score (ES) is prognostic for HCC patient survival independent of known clinical/molecular factors

  hcc-associated hcc malignant cd8+ single-cell bulk metabolomics

• Circulating mucosal-associated invariant T cells identify patients responding to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33723257 · PMC7961017 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Proportions of activated and proliferating CD8+ T cells (cluster C16/activated EM) are significantly higher in responders before and during therapy

  pbmc cd3+cd8+ pbmc-derived metastatic high-dimensional single-cell polychromatic

• Integrative network modeling reveals mechanisms underlying T cell exhaustion.

  PMID 32024856 · PMC7002445 · Scientific reports · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  TCE arises from changes in diverse gene regulatory interactions across a shared network rather than dysregulation of a single gene

  cd8+ tce manual gene principal

• Host-derived interleukin-1α drives tumor immunosuppression by reprogramming tumor-associated myeloid cells.

  PMID 41547846 · PMC12910057 · NPJ breast cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Deletion of host Il1α causes rejection/regression of transplanted breast tumors

  h605 pymt tumor-infiltrating two-week orthotopic flow single-cell

• CLK1 Promotes Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Trafficking and Reprograms the Tumor Microenvironment by Activating Hippo/YAP Signaling in Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41686262 · PMC13136879 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CLK1 is markedly upregulated in immune-cold colorectal tumors and correlates with increased MDSC infiltration and CD8+ T-cell exclusion

  colorectal tcga-coad ct26 tumor scrna-seq bulk multiplex