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Targeting Small Nucleolar RNA Augments Immunotherapeutic Efficacy

靶向小核仁 RNA 增强免疫治疗功效

基本信息

批准号：
10670244
负责人：
Chunru Lin
金额：
$ 44.35万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-07-22 至 2027-06-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10670244
关键词：
Adipocytes Adipose tissue Antisense Oligonucleotides Attenuated Automobile Driving Binding Biological Blood Body mass index Breast Cancer Patient CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes CD8B1 gene Chromatin Clinical Data Development Down-Regulation Drug Kinetics Energy Metabolism Essential Genes Event Exhibits Foundations Gene Targeting Genes Genetic Genetic Transcription Goals Heterozygote High Fat Diet Immunotherapeutic agent Immunotherapy Impairment Infiltration Interleukin-15 Knock-in Knock-in Mouse Knowledge Leukocytes Lipolysis Malignant Neoplasms Mammary Neoplasms Mammary gland Mechanics Mediating Molecular Monoacylglycerol Lipases Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus Mouse Strains Mus Natural Killer Cell toxicity Natural Killer Cells Normal tissue morphology Obese Mice Obesity Outcome PD-1/PD-L1 PD-L1 blockade Pathway interactions Phosphorylation Process Proliferating Protein Tyrosine Kinase Resistance Risk Factors Role Sampling Serum Signal Pathway Signal Transduction Small Nucleolar RNA Stat5 protein T cell infiltration Therapeutic Toxic effect Tumor Immunity Underweight Untranslated RNA Up-Regulation Variant bone breast cancer progression cancer initiation cancer type computational pipelines cytotoxic diet-induced obesity effectiveness evaluation efficacy evaluation genetic variant glucose metabolism immune checkpoint blockers immune resistance improved in vivo infiltrating duct carcinoma interleukin-15 receptor knock-down lipid biosynthesis locked nucleic acid malignant breast neoplasm next generation obese patients survival outcome targeted treatment therapeutic target treatment strategy triple-negative invasive breast carcinoma tumor tumorigenesis

项目摘要

Project Summary Despite the establishment of obesity as a risk factor in the development of a multitude of cancer types including breast cancer, there is still a significant insufficiency of genetic evidence for implicating obesity in the initiation and progression of breast cancer development. While immunotherapeutic approaches such as the PD-1/PD-L1 blockade have shown promise in treating breast cancer, obesity causes substantial impairment of anti-tumor immunity. A significant challenge in the development of effective immunotherapeutic strategies for obesity- associated breast cancer lies in the characterization of the bone fide target genes that drive obesity-associated immune resistance. The emergence of noncoding RNAs as important biological molecules has provided the foundation for the development of next-generation treatment strategies. Our preliminary data demonstrated that a small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA), SNORD46, is upregulated in breast cancer and negatively correlated with the infiltration of cytotoxic leukocytes. We also indicated that obesity is associated with a chromatin variant of SNORD46. We collected genetic evidence indicating that the expression of SNORD46 leads to obesity and mammary gland tumors which are resistant to immunotherapy. Therefore, the goal of this proposal is to comprehensively characterize and implicate SNORD46 as a driver of obesity-associated breast cancer and demonstrate that targeting snoRNAs effectively improves the expansion and activation of CD8+ T-cells and NK cells and sensitizes obesity-associate breast cancer in immunotherapy. We will address our central hypothesis that snoRNAs act as essential gene targets that promote obesity and obesity-associated breast cancer initiation and immune resistance, which could be attenuated in vivo by an anti- sense oligonucleotide-based targeted therapy. In Specific Aim 1, we will define the molecular mechanism of SNORD46 inhibited, IL-15-dependent non-classic pathway in adipocytes, and IL-15-dependent expression of stimulatory checkpoints in CD8+ T cell and NK cells. In Specific Aim 2, we will ascertain the functional importance of snoRNAs in obesity-associated tumorigenesis and immune resistance using high-fat diet-induced obese mice and Snord46 mut/mut knockin obese mice. The proposed study will provide initial genetic evidence for defining the crucial role of adipocyte-expressed snoRNAs in promoting obesity and obesity-associated breast cancer. Mechanistically, we will elucidate the molecular mechanisms of the SNORD46-leukocyte interactions that drive obesity-associated breast cancer resistance to immunotherapy. Clinically, the proposed studies will delineate that targeting snoRNAs using locked nucleic acids (LNAs) effectively improves the proliferation/activation of CD8+ T-cells and NK cells in vivo, sensitizing obesity-associated breast cancer to immune checkpoint blockers.

项目总结