Cyclophosphamide and Vinorelbine Activate Stem-Like CD8+ T Cells and Improve Anti-PD-1 Efficacy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Cyclophosphamide and Vinorelbine Activate Stem-Like CD8+ T Cells and Improve Anti-PD-1 Efficacy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
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DOI:
10.1158/0008-5472.can-20-1818
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发表时间:
2021-02-01
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11.2
通讯作者:
Bertolini, Francesco
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作者:
Falvo, Paolo;Orecchioni, Stefania;Bertolini, Francesco
Checkpoint inhibitors (CI) instigate anticancer immunity in many neoplastic diseases, albeit only in a fraction of patients. The clinical success of cyclophosphamide (C)-based haploidentical stem-cell transplants indicates that this drug may re-orchestrate the immune system. Using models of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) with different intratumoral immune contexture, we demonstrate that a combinatorial therapy of intermittent C, CI, and vinorelbine activates antigen-presenting cells (APC), and abrogates local and metastatic tumor growth by a T-cell-related effect. Single-cell transcriptome analysis of >50,000 intratumoral immune cells after therapy treatment showed a gene signature suggestive of a change resulting from exposure to a mitogen, ligand, or antigen for which it is specific, as well as APC-to-T-cell adhesion. This transcriptional program also increased intratumoral Tcf1(+) stem-like CD8(+) T cells and altered the balance between terminally and progenitor-exhausted T cells favoring the latter. Overall, our data support the clinical investigation of this therapy in TNBC.Significance: Acombinatorial therapy in mouse models of breast cancer increases checkpoint inhibition by activating anti-genpresenting cells, enhancing intratumoral Tcf1(+) stem-like CD8(+) T cells, and increasing progenitor exhausted CD8thorn T cells.