Identification of Co-inhibitory Receptors PD-1 and TIM-3 on T Cells from Gastric Cancer Patients

Yunhui Zong^1,3,9#, Songbing He^2#, Fuliang Chu^4,5, Yu Jing⁶, Sally A Hunsucker⁷, Tina Yang⁸, Fengtao You^3,4,5, Sisi Ye^3,4,5, Yafen Li^1,3,9, Jinle Tang^1,9, Huimin Meng^1,9, Gangli An^1,9, Xingding Zhang^3,4,5, Bozhen Zhang^3,4,5 and Lin Yang^1,3,4,5,9*

¹The Cyrus Tang Hematology Center, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

²Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

³PersonGen Biomedicine (Suzhou) Co., Ltd, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

⁴Xi’an Jiaotong University Suzhou Academy, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

⁵Suzhou Cancer Immunotherapy and Diagnosis Engineering Center, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

⁶Department of Hematology, The General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Beijing, PR China

⁷Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

⁸College of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

⁹Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

^#Contributed equally to this work

^*Corresponding Author: Lin Yang, The Cyrus Tang Hematology Center, Soochow University, 199 Ren’ai Road, SIP, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, PR China, Tel: +86 (512) 6588 0877, Fax: +86 (512)6588 1544 Email: