The microbiome and human cancer.
The microbiome and human cancer.
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10.1126/science.abc4552
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2021-03-26
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Knight R
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Sepich-Poore GD;Zitvogel L;Straussman R;Hasty J;Wargo JA;Knight R
Historical accounts linking cancer and microbes date as early as four millennia ago. Post establishment of the germ theory of infectious diseases, clinical research of microbial influences on cancer began in 1868, when William Busch reported spontaneous tumor regressions in patients with Streptococcus pyogenes infections. Over the next century, the role of bacteria in carcinogenesis and cancer therapy was discounted due to poor reproducibility, erroneous microbiological claims, and severe toxicity in patients. However, these provided some of the first crude demonstrations of cancer immunotherapy. Contemporaneously, the viral theory of cancer began to flourish, spurred by the 1911 discovery of Rous Sarcoma Virus (RSV), which transformed benign tissue into malignant tumors in domestic fowl. The subsequent decades-long search to find a virus behind every human cancer ultimately failed, and many cancers have been fundamentally linked to somatic mutations. Now the field is encountering intriguing claims of the importance of microbes, including bacteria and fungi, in cancer and cancer therapy. This Review critically evaluates the evidence for these claims in light of modern cancer biology and immunology, and delineates the roles of microbes in cancer by examining recent advances in proposed mechanisms, diagnostics, endogenous modulation approaches, and exogenous therapeutic strategies. Few microbes directly cause cancer, but many seem complicit in its growth, often acting through the host’s immune system; conversely, several have immunostimulatory properties. Mechanistic analyses of gut microbiota-immune system interactions have demonstrated powerful effects on innate and adaptive immunity by modulating primary and secondary lymphoid tissue activities against cancer and tumor immunosurveillance. Many of these pathways invoke Toll-like receptor (TLR)-initiated cytokine signaling, but microbial metabolic effects in dietary energy harvest and short-chain fatty acid production, and antigenic mimicry with cancer cells, are also important. In preclinical models, microbial metabolites also regulate phenotypes of tumor somatic mutations and modulate immune checkpoint inhibitor efficacy. Emerging evidence also suggests the existence and functional activity of intratumoral bacteria, with overlapping immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, electron microscopy, and sequencing data on them in ~10 cancer types. Preliminary studies also suggest that fungi and bacteriophages contribute to gastrointestinal cancers. However, the estimated cellular abundances of intratumoral microbes is low relative to cancer cells, and knowledge of their functional repertoire and potency remains limited. Further validation of their prevalence and impact is needed in diverse cohorts and therapeutic contexts. The immunomodulatory effects of host microbiota have reinvigorated efforts to change their composition as a form of immunotherapy. Despite extensive preclinical evidence, translation of microbiota modulation approaches into humans has yet to broadly materialize into commercialized therapies. Synthetic biology approaches are also gaining traction, however, with engineered bacterial cancer therapies in preclinical and clinical trial settings. A better understanding of the roles of microbes in cancer has the opportunity to improve each stage of the cancer care cycle, but major challenges must be surmounted. Concerted efforts to characterize cancer-associated microbiota among tumor, stool, and blood samples with gold-standard contamination controls would tremendously aid this progress. This would be analogous to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)’s and International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC)’s roles in characterizing the cancer somatic mutation landscape. Large-scale clinical trials are currently testing the efficacy of microbiota modulation approaches, ranging from dietary modifications to intratumorally-injected, engineered bacteria. These bacterial cancer therapies, if safe and effective, could tremendously expand the cancer therapy armamentarium. Altogether, integrating the host-centric and microbial viewpoints of cancer may improve patient outcomes while providing a nuanced understanding of cancer-host-microbial evolution. Opportunities for microbes to impact cancer care. Diagnosis: Cancer-specific, blood-borne microbial DNA may complement cell-free tumor DNA (ctDNA). Prognosis: Gut and intratumoral microbiota may stratify patient outcomes; (N)R=(non)responder; TME=tumor microenvironment. Therapy: Intratumor injection of CD47 nanobody (CD47nb)-producing E. coli may create systemic antitumor immunity by enhancing dendritic cell (DC) phagocytosis, lymph node (LN) antigen (Ag) presentation, and cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) activity. Microbial roles in cancer formation, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment have been disputed for centuries. Recent studies have provocatively claimed that bacteria, viruses, and/or fungi are pervasive among cancers, key actors in cancer immunotherapy, and engineerable to treat metastases. Despite these findings, the number of microbes known to directly cause carcinogenesis remains small. Critically evaluating and building frameworks for such evidence in light of modern cancer biology is an important task. In this Review, we delineate between causal and complicit roles of microbes in cancer and trace common themes of their influence through the host’s immune system, herein defined as the immuno-oncology-microbiome (IOM) axis. We further review evidence for intratumoral microbes and approaches that manipulate the host’s gut or tumor microbiome while projecting the next phase of experimental discovery.
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7
作者:
Castellarin, Mauro;Warren, Rene L.;Holt, Robert A.
通讯作者:
Holt, Robert A.
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作者:
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DOI:
10.1126/science.aal5240
发表时间:
2017-12-15
期刊:
Science (New York, N.Y.)
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