NASH limits anti-tumour surveillance in immunotherapy-treated HCC.
NASH limits anti-tumour surveillance in immunotherapy-treated HCC.
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10.1038/s41586-021-03362-0
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2021-04
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64.8
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Heikenwalder M
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Pfister D;Núñez NG;Pinyol R;Govaere O;Pinter M;Szydlowska M;Gupta R;Qiu M;Deczkowska A;Weiner A;Müller F;Sinha A;Friebel E;Engleitner T;Lenggenhager D;Moncsek A;Heide D;Stirm K;Kosla J;Kotsiliti E;Leone V;Dudek M;Yousuf S;Inverso D;Singh I;Teijeiro A;Castet F;Montironi C;Haber PK;Tiniakos D;Bedossa P;Cockell S;Younes R;Vacca M;Marra F;Schattenberg JM;Allison M;Bugianesi E;Ratziu V;Pressiani T;D'Alessio A;Personeni N;Rimassa L;Daly AK;Scheiner B;Pomej K;Kirstein MM;Vogel A;Peck-Radosavljevic M;Hucke F;Finkelmeier F;Waidmann O;Trojan J;Schulze K;Wege H;Koch S;Weinmann A;Bueter M;Rössler F;Siebenhüner A;De Dosso S;Mallm JP;Umansky V;Jugold M;Luedde T;Schietinger A;Schirmacher P;Emu B;Augustin HG;Billeter A;Müller-Stich B;Kikuchi H;Duda DG;Kütting F;Waldschmidt DT;Ebert MP;Rahbari N;Mei HE;Schulz AR;Ringelhan M;Malek N;Spahn S;Bitzer M;Ruiz de Galarreta M;Lujambio A;Dufour JF;Marron TU;Kaseb A;Kudo M;Huang YH;Djouder N;Wolter K;Zender L;Marche PN;Decaens T;Pinato DJ;Rad R;Mertens JC;Weber A;Unger K;Meissner F;Roth S;Jilkova ZM;Claassen M;Anstee QM;Amit I;Knolle P;Becher B;Llovet JM;Heikenwalder M
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) can have viral or non-viral causes. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is an important driver of HCC. Immunotherapy has been approved for treating HCC, but biomarker-based stratification of patients for optimal response to therapy is an unmet need. Here we report the progressive accumulation of exhausted, unconventionally activated CD8+PD1+ T cells in NASH-affected livers. In preclinical models of NASH-induced HCC, therapeutic immunotherapy targeted at programmed death-1 (PD1) expanded activated CD8+PD1+ T cells within tumours but did not lead to tumour regression, which indicates that tumour immune surveillance was impaired. When given prophylactically, anti-PD1 treatment led to an increase in the incidence of NASH–HCC and in the number and size of tumour nodules, which correlated with increased hepatic CD8+PD1+CXCR6+, TOX+, and TNF+ T cells. The increase in HCC triggered by anti-PD1 treatment was prevented by depletion of CD8+ T cells or TNF neutralization, suggesting that CD8+ T cells help to induce NASH–HCC, rather than invigorating or executing immune surveillance. We found similar phenotypic and functional profiles in hepatic CD8+PD1+ T cells from humans with NAFLD or NASH. A meta-analysis of three randomized phase III clinical trials that tested inhibitors of PDL1 (programmed death-ligand 1) or PD1 in more than 1,600 patients with advanced HCC revealed that immune therapy did not improve survival in patients with non-viral HCC. In two additional cohorts, patients with NASH-driven HCC who received anti-PD1 or anti-PDL1 treatment showed reduced overall survival compared to patients with other aetiologies. Collectively, these data show that non-viral HCC, and particularly NASH–HCC, might be less responsive to immunotherapy, probably owing to NASH-related aberrant T cell activation causing tissue damage that leads to impaired immune surveillance. Our data provide a rationale for stratification of patients with HCC according to underlying aetiology in studies of immunotherapy as a primary or adjuvant treatment. In hepatocellular carcinoma driven by non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, aberrant T cell activation and impaired immune surveillance seem to make hepatocellular carcinoma less responsive to anti-PD1 or anti-PDL1 immunotherapy.
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5.8
作者:
Liberzon, Arthur;Subramanian, Aravind;Mesirov, Jill P.
通讯作者:
Mesirov, Jill P.
DOI:
10.1126/science.1247651
发表时间:
2014-02-14
期刊:
Science (New York, N.Y.)
影响因子:
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通讯作者:
Amit I
影响因子:
82.9
作者:
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通讯作者:
Sanyal AJ
影响因子:
30.5
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影响因子:
64.8
作者:
Kang, Tae-Won;Yevsa, Tetyana;Zender, Lars
通讯作者:
Zender, Lars