nCounter® Immune Exhaustion Panel

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Uncover the mechanisms behind T cell, B cell, and NK cell exhaustion in diverse contexts, including cancer and infectious disease, with a 785 gene panel that gets you results in less than 24 hours and is compatible with a broad range of sample types. Characterize immune status, develop signatures for assessing the exhausted state, and identify novel therapeutic targets to prevent or reverse exhaustion.

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Feature Details
Viral Identification
Tumor Inflammation Signature
Feature Details
  • Directly profile 785 genes across 47 pathways involved in immune exhaustion:
    • Immune Activation
    • Immune Suppression
    • Immune Status
    • Immune Checkpoints
    • Epigenetics
    • Metabolism & Microenvironment
  • Understand the mechanisms of exhaustion in T cells, B cells, NK cells, CAR-T cells and other adoptive immune cells
  • Discover novel therapeutic targets for preventing or reversing immune exhaustion
  • Determine the extent of a peripherally suppressed, adaptive immune response to cancer with the 18-gene Tumor Inflammation Signature (TIS)
  • Quantify the presence and relative abundance of 14 different immune cell types
Viral Identification

Chronic infections caused by viruses and other pathogens can induce immune exhaustion. The Human Immune Exhaustion Panel includes probes for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Cytomegalovirus (CMV), and the Mouse Immune Exhaustion Panel includes probes for Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis (LCMV). The panel can be supplemented with up to 55 genes of your choice with a Panel Plus spike-in for studying exhaustion in the context of different types of infectious disease.

Tumor Inflammation Signature

The 18-gene Tumor Inflammation Signature (TIS) is included in the panel gene list and measures activity known to be associated with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors. Customers have the option to purchase a standalone TIS report with the Immune Exhaustion Panel.

  • Includes four axes of biology that characterize a peripherally suppressed, adaptive immune response, including:
    • Antigen presenting cells
    • T cell/NK cell presence
    • IFNγ biology
    • T cell exhaustion
  • Tissue-of-origin agnostic (Pan-Cancer)
  • Potential surrogate for PD-L1 and mutational load in a research setting

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Tumoral and stromal hMENA isoforms impact tertiary lymphoid structure localization in lung cancer and predict immune checkpoint blockade response in patients with cancer

BACKGROUND: Tertiary Lymphoid Structures (TLS) correlate with positive outcomes in patients with NSCLC and the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) in cancer. The actin regulatory protein hMENA undergoes tissue-specific splicing, producing the epithelial hMENA(11a) linked to favorable prognosis in early NSCLC, and the mesenchymal hMENADeltav6 found in invasive cancer cells and pro-tumoral cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs).

HER2 heterogeneity and treatment response-associated profiles in HER2-positive breast cancer in the NCT02326974 clinical trial

BACKGROUND: HER2-targeting therapies have great efficacy in HER2-positive breast cancer, but resistance in part due to HER2 heterogeneity (HET) is a significant clinical challenge. We previously described that in a phase II neoadjuvant trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) and pertuzumab (T-DM1+P) clinical trial in early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer, none of the patients with HER2-HET tumors had pathologic complete response (pCR).

Clinically relevant molecular hallmarks of PFA ependymomas display intratumoral heterogeneity and correlate with tumor morphology

Posterior fossa type A (PF-EPN-A, PFA) ependymoma are aggressive tumors that mainly affect children and have a poor prognosis. Histopathology shows significant intratumoral heterogeneity, ranging from loose tissue to often sharply demarcated, extremely cell-dense tumor areas.

Product Information

Specifications
Core Themes and Annotations
Immune Checkpoint Coverage
Immune Cell Profiling Feature
Catalog Information
Specifications
Core Themes and Annotations

The nCounter Immune Exhaustion Panel enables researchers to explore the mechanisms behind T cell, B cell, and NK cell exhaustion in diverse contexts, including cancer and infectious disease.

Immune Checkpoint Coverage

The Immune Exhaustion Panel provides comprehensive coverage of the most relevant immune checkpoints that can potentially be used to modulate the dynamics of the immune response.

Immune Cell Profiling Feature
Catalog Information

Related Resources

Product Bulletin Immune Exhaustion – Product Bulletin
Manual/Instructions NanoU Training Videos

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