Microenvironment and Arsenic Lung Tumorigenesis

微环境与砷肺肿瘤发生

• 批准号: 10250367
• 负责人: Gang Chen
• 金额: $ 34.43万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-30 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10250367
• 关键词: A/J Mouse; Animal Model; Animals; Antibodies; Arsenic; Binding; CD4 Positive T Lymphocytes; CD4/CD8 ratio procedure; CD8B1 gene; Cancer Patient; Cell Count; Cell membrane; Cells; Cellular Structures; Chronic; Data; Development; Dose; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Risk Factor; Epithelial Cells; Equilibrium; Flow Cytometry; Functional disorder; Genes; Human; Immune; Immune system; Immunity; Immunologic Surveillance; In Vitro; Incidence; Injections; Interleukin-6; Investigation; Lead; Lung; Lung Neoplasms; Malignant neoplasm of liver; Malignant neoplasm of lung; Malignant neoplasm of urinary bladder; Mediating; Modeling; Monitor; Mus; Outcome; PD-1/PD-L1; PDL1 pathway; Pathway interactions; Pharmacologic Substance; Play; Process; Receptor Inhibition; Regulation; Reporting; Role; STAT3 gene; Skin Cancer; T-Lymphocyte; T-Lymphocyte Subsets; Tumor Escape; Tumor Immunity; Tumor-infiltrating immune cells; Up-Regulation; anti-PD-L1 antibodies; anti-PD1 antibodies; bronchial epithelium; cell transformation; cell type; conditional knockout; cytotoxic; effector T cell; genetic approach; immune activation; immune checkpoint; in vivo; inhibiting antibody; inhibitor; innovation; lung carcinogenesis; lung tumorigenesis; mouse model; neoplastic cell; novel; novel strategies; prevent; programmed cell death ligand 1; programmed cell death protein 1; promoter; tumor; tumor initiation; tumorigenesis

Abstract Chronic exposure of environmental arsenic promotes skin, bladder, liver and lung cancers. However, the mechanism underlying arsenic lung carcinogenesis is unclear. Evidence from animal models and studies in cancer patients indicate that the immune system monitors the host body recognizing and reacting against newly arising transformed/tumor cells to stop/control tumor formation. The encounter between the immune system and transformed/tumor cells initiates a process termed “immunoediting” that can bring about three outcomes: elimination, equilibrium or escape of transformed/tumor cells from immune control. Host immunity suppresses tumor development, whereas tumor formation implies the successful escape of transformed/tumor cells from the surveillance of the immune system. Effector T cells, particularly cytotoxic T (Tc) cells, represent a major component of cell-mediated anti-tumor immunity. One of the mechanisms modulating T cell antitumor effector function involves the activation/inhibition receptors on a T cell membrane. Inhibition of T cell antitumor function through the activation of immune checkpoint pathways (e.g. PD-1/PD-L1 pathway) has been shown to promote tumor cell immune escape and tumor formation. In addition, previous reports indicate that the aberrant activation of STAT3 occurs in many human tumors and STAT3-mediated PD-L1 up-regulation impedes T cell antitumor function. Our previous in vitro study showed that the IL-6/STAT3 axis plays a critical role in arsenic- induced transformation in human bronchial epithelial cells. Using a lung tumor mouse model, our new preliminary data show that long-term arsenic exposure increased lung tumor incidence rate and multiplicity of A/J mice. In addition, arsenic exposure dose-dependently activated STAT3, increased the binding of STAT3 to the promoter of the PD-L1 gene and up-regulated PD-L1 in mouse lungs. Flow cytometry data further indicated that arsenic increased PD-1+ T cell numbers and decreased CD8+/CD4+ T cell ratio in the lungs, while injection of PD-1 or PD-L1 antibodies reversed the decreased CD8+/CD4+ ratio. Since PD-1/PD-L1 up-regulation may inhibit T cell antitumor function and promote escape of transformed cells from host immunosurveillance and eventually lead to tumor formation, we hypothesize that arsenic promotes lung tumor formation through STAT3/PD-1/PD-L1-mediated inhibition of T cell antitumor function. Three specific aims are proposed: Aim 1: To determine if chronic arsenic exposure inhibits T cell antitumor function and the types of cells in which PD-1 or PD-L1 is up-regulated by arsenic in the lungs of A/J mice. Aim 2: To determine if inhibition of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway ameliorates arsenic-promoted T cell dysfunction and tumor formation in the lungs of A/J mice. Aim 3: To determine if activation of STAT3 is the mechanism underlying arsenic-enhanced PD-L1 up- regulation, T cell dysfunction and tumor formation in the lungs of A/J mice.

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