GPR65 contributes to constructing immunosuppressive microenvironment in glioma

• DOI: 10.1007/s10143-024-02633-4
• Publication Date: 2024-08-10T03:32:18Z
• Authors: Jikang Fan; Jie Liu; Bin Zhang; Xuya Wang; Xisen Wang; Jianshen Liang; Yiming Li; Yu Zhang; Chen Zhang; Shengping Yu; Tao Li; Xuejun Yang
• Keywords: Brain Neoplasms; Research; Macrophages; Cell Line, Tumor; Tumor Microenvironment; Humans; Glioma; Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled

Glioma, especially glioblastoma patients, present highly heterogeneous and immunosuppressive microenvironment, leading to their poor response to treatment and survival. Targeting the tumor microenvironment is considered a promising therapeutic strategy. M2 macrophages are highly infiltrated in glioma tissue, even up to 50% of the total number of bulk tissue cells. Here, we identified GPR65 as the hub gene of the M2 macrophage-related module in glioma through WGCNA analysis. The expression and prognosis analysis suggested that GPR65 was positively correlated with the malignancy and poor prognosis of glioma, and the heterogeneity analysis found that GPR65 was highly expressed in the vascular proliferation area of glioma, which matched the spatial expression characteristics of M2 macrophages. We further verified that GPR65 was highly expressed in macrophages but not tumor cells in the glioma microenvironment by single-cell data analysis and immunofluorescence. Most importantly, we found that inhibition of GPR65 was sufficient to reduce macrophages' polarization response to glioma cell and break the malignant cooperation with glioma cells. Our study reports the expression characteristics and malignant behavior of GPR65 in the glioma microenvironment, which provides a new alternative target of treatment to glioma microenvironment.