A new insight of immunosuppressive microenvironment in osteosarcoma lung metastasis

Abstract

The lung is the primary organ for the metastasis of osteosarcoma. Although the application of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery has remarkably improved the survival rate of patients with osteosarcoma, prognosis is still poor for those patients with metastasis. In this study, we performed further bioinformatics analysis on single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data published before, containing 75,317 cells from two osteosarcoma lung metastasis and five normal lung tissues. First, we classified 17 clusters, including macrophages, T cells, endothelial cells, and so on, indicating highly intratumoral heterogeneity in osteosarcoma lung metastasis. Next, we found macrophages in osteosarcoma lung metastasis did not have significant M1 or M2 polarizations. Then, we identified that T cells occupied the most abundant among all cell clusters, and found CD8⁺ T cells exhibited a low expression level of immune checkpoints in osteosarcoma lung metastasis. What is more, we identified C2_Malignant cells, and found CD63 might play vital roles in determining the infiltration of T cells and malignant cells in conventional-type osteosarcoma lung metastasis. Finally, we unveiled C1_Therapeutic cluster, a subcluster of malignant cells, was sensitive to oxfendazole and mevastatin, and the potential hydrogen-bond position and binding energy of oxfendazole-KIAA0907 and mevastatin-KIAA0907 were unveiled, respectively. Our results highlighted the power of scRNA-seq technique in identifying the complex tumor microenvironment of osteosarcoma lung metastasis, making it possible to devise precision therapeutic approaches.