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).

• 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

• A hormetic transcriptional program coregulates invasion, proliferation and dormancy to define metastatic potential.

  PMID 41781391 · PMC13077004 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Prrx1 is a master regulator of dissemination that, beyond promoting invasion, represses proliferation (via Ccnd1/2, Cdkn2a/b/c) and activates a dormancy program (Gas6, Mme, Ogn)

  infiltrating metabric facs-sorted pymt immunohistochemistry bioinformatic rt-qpcr

• Indoleamine 2, 3-Dioxygenase 1 and CD8 Expression Profiling Revealed an Immunological Subtype of Colon Cancer With a Poor Prognosis.

  PMID 33425745 · PMC7793995 · Frontiers in oncology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A colon cancer subtype with CD8Ahigh IDO1high tumors shows the worst survival despite high CD8 T cell infiltrates

  tcga-coad ncbi-geo tisidb gepia rna-seq tumor-infiltrating gene

• Annotation-free prediction of immunotherapy response in melanoma using single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41758825 · PMC12948085 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AI-based predictive models built on unannotated scRNA-seq data (cell-by-gene expression matrices) can classify melanoma patients as ICI responders vs. non-responders

  cd45+ scrna-seq independent scrna-seq single-gene-level pathway-level

• 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

• A ligand-centered framework for γδ T cell activation in colorectal cancer revealed by single-cell and transformer-based perturbation.

  PMID 41607803 · PMC12835328 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CRC-infiltrating γδ T cells show varied activation levels, with the TRM-like population being the major tumor-infiltrating subtype and exhibiting the lowest effector and exhaustion signature scores.

  crc-infiltrating crc scrna-seq gene nichenet

• Deciphering the Immune Microenvironment at the Forefront of Tumor Aggressiveness by Constructing a Regulatory Network with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 38254989 · PMC10815467 · Genes · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  High expression of transcription factors FOXA1 and EZH2 in malignant cells at the invasive front plays a key role in driving tumor progression

  breast er+ epithelial malignant scrna-seq spatial copy

• Constructing an APOBEC-related gene signature with predictive value in the overall survival and therapeutic sensitivity in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 37954334 · PMC10637964 · Heliyon · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  APOBEC family genes are differentially expressed across cancer types and tissues, with APOBEC3B being the most aberrantly upregulated gene in most cancers including LUAD

  tcga tcga-luad beas-2b rna-seq somatic gene

• 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

• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

  immune atherosclerotic cd4+ cd8+ scrna-seq gsea pseudotime

• Identification of immune-related signatures and pathogenesis differences between thoracic aortic aneurysm patients with bicuspid versus tricuspid valves via weighted gene co-expression network analysis.

  PMID 37883426 · PMC10602290 · PloS one · 2023 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TAA/TAV pathogenesis is more strongly associated with immune-related gene expression than TAA/BAV.

  aortic genes wgcna gene cibersort

• The liver as an immunological barrier redefined by single-cell analysis.

  PMID 32176810 · PMC7218664 · Immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Emerging single-cell technologies have advanced or redefined understanding of the liver's immunological barrier function

  liver c57bl sorted pdgfrb-gfp scrna-seq single-molecule

• Targeted and personalized immunotherapy in lung adenocarcinoma: single-cell RNA sequencing of MAFF+ tumor cells and the therapeutic potential of FOS.

  PMID 40936936 · PMC12420628 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A highly stem-like C0 MAFF+ tumor cell subtype dominates invasive LUAD, producing chemokines and activating lipid metabolism

  luad tumor a549 single-cell infercnv pseudotime

• Development and validation of a gemcitabine sensitivity-related long noncoding RNA signature for predicting the prognosis and subtypes of bladder cancer.

  PMID 41809777 · PMC12968932 · Translational andrology and urology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 37-GSRlncRNA prognostic signature stratifies BLCA patients into low- and high-risk groups with significant differences in survival, pathway enrichment, immune infiltration, and mutational profiles

  tcga-blca blca paired wgcna differential machine

• 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

• Tet2 modulates ER stress responses related to β-cell death and autoimmunity in diabetes.

  PMID 41782826 · PMC12955150 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Tet2-deficient NOD mice transplanted with WT bone marrow show fewer islet-infiltrating lymphocytes beginning 8–10 weeks post-transplant, primarily among CD4+ T cells

  islets islet islet-infiltrating cadaveric flow single-cell single-nucleus

• 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

• The transcription factor EHF promotes the maturation and immunosuppression of conventional dendritic cells.

  PMID 41730908 · PMC13039115 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EHF orchestrates an immunosuppressive maturation program in cDC1s and cDC2s downstream of TLR7/8/9 sensing of self-nucleic acids

  ehf facs-sorted dss-induced lethal cd4+

• Reinvigorating COTL1(high) NK cells via GITR signalling overcomes immune checkpoint blockade resistance in tsMHC-I-impaired tumours.

  PMID 41912896 · PMC13179135 · Nature cell biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A COTL1-high NK cell subset mediates immune checkpoint blockade responsiveness in tsMHC-I impaired tumours

  hcc sorted orthotopic multiplex bulk single-cell

• Single-cell mapping of cholesterol metabolism reveals FDPS as a therapeutic vulnerability in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41706364 · PMC12916967 · Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Cholesterol metabolic activity is markedly elevated in HCC tumors and in immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) non-responders, with pronounced intratumoral heterogeneity across malignant cell subpopulations

  hcc tcga-lihc malignant hepa1-6 scrna-seq bulk hdwgcna