Exploring the Innate Sensors Underlying Cancer Immunosurveillance
Exploring the Innate Sensors Underlying Cancer Immunosurveillance
批准号:
10082443
负责人:
Daniel J Kim
金额:
$5.1万
依托单位:
依托单位国家:
美国
项目类别:
财政年份:
2019
资助国家:
美国
项目状态:
已结题
起止时间:
2019-01-01 至 2021-12-31
关键词:
Adaptive Immune SystemAllelesAutomobile DrivingCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCancer PatientCell DeathCell LineCellsCharacteristicsChromosomal InstabilityClinicalCross PresentationDataDominant-Negative MutationEndogenous RetrovirusesEnterobacteria phage P1 Cre recombinaseFlow CytometryGene ExpressionHumanIFNAR1 geneImmune checkpoint inhibitorImmune systemImmunologic SurveillanceImmunotherapyImplantInfiltrationInnate Immune SystemInterferonsIntrinsic factorKinesinKnock-outKnockout MiceLigandsLoxP-flanked alleleMalignant NeoplasmsMeasuresMediatingMicrotubule DepolymerizationModelingMusMutationPathway interactionsPatientsProductionSignal PathwaySignal TransductionSolid NeoplasmStimulator of Interferon GenesSystemT-LymphocyteTestingTherapeutic InterventionToxic effectTumor VolumeTumor-DerivedTumor-infiltrating immune cellsWorkXCR1 genebasecancer therapycell transformationcell typecheckpoint inhibitionclinical predictorsconditional knockoutcytokinecytotoxic CD8 T cellsfallsimmune checkpoint blockadeimmunogenicimprovedin vivoinnate immune mechanismsknock-downmelanomamemberneutralizing antibodynovel therapeutic interventionoverexpressionpathogenpromoterresponsesensorsmall molecule inhibitorsubcutaneoustranscriptome sequencingtumortumor DNAtumor microenvironment
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Project Summary
While checkpoint blockade has provided unprecedented clinical benefit, there are still many cancer patients who
remain unresponsive to therapy. Given that the presence of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T cells predicts clinical
responses, there has been increased focus on what spontaneously generates this “inflamed” tumor
microenvironment. In answering this question, current approaches have identified phagocytosed tumor DNA as
the ligand that activates cGAS-STING pathway in BATF3-dependent DCs to elicit type I IFN signaling that
ultimately matures DCs and effectively primes T cells. These approaches, however, depend primarily on tumor
models that highly express infectious endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), which is absent in human cancers.
Because there is the possibility that type I IFN and innate sensors are being erroneously induced, we propose
to use ERV-free immunogenic YUMMER melanoma lines developed by Marcus Bosenberg to study the innate
sensors involved in activating DCs. Based on preliminary data demonstrating that tumor rejection is STING-
dependent but cGAS-independent and recent studies showing that chromosomal instability (CIN) in cancer can
autonomously activate cGAS-STING-NFkB pathway, we hypothesize that CIN is activating tumor production of
cGAMP which then transactivates STING in nearby BATF3-dependent DCs, leading to NFkB signaling and DC
maturation. To directly test this, I will pursue the following aims. For my first aim, I will determine the host cell
type in which STING expression is required for cancer immunosurveillance. To accomplish this, I will
subcutaneously implant YUMMER cells in mice lacking various DC lineages and screen for any deficiencies in
tumor rejection, tracking tumor volume and measuring DC activation and T cell infiltration by flow cytometry. For
my second aim, I will identify the tumor-derived ligand that is responsible for activating host STING. To
do this, I will induce CIN in YUMM cells (the non-immunogenic parental cell line of YUMMER lines) by
overexpressing the dominant negative allele of microtubule depolymerizing kinesin (MCAK) to test whether CIN
is sufficient to induce a host STING-dependent rejection. We will also stably knockout cGAS in YUMMER cells
to assess whether spontaneous rejection can be abrogated in the absence of tumor cGAMP production. For my
third aim, I will elucidate the downstream signaling pathway elicited by host STING. By conditionally
knocking out NFkB pathway components in the identified DC lineage, we will verify whether NFkB is required for
cancer immunosurveillance. Next, we will utilize RNA-Seq of sorted DCs to identify potential cytokines driving
tumor rejection and verify that these identified cytokines are required for immunosurveillance by administration
of depleting cytokines. If our hypothesis proves true, we will have identified how the innate immune system
broadly recognizes cancer as a pathogen to initiate a specific adaptive response. We expect that our findings
will uncover new strategies to convert “cold” tumors into “hot” ones that can be targeted with checkpoint inhibition.
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DOI:
10.1172/jci.insight.156344
发表时间:
2022-05-09
期刊:
JCI INSIGHT
影响因子:
8
作者:
[Kim, Daniel J., Iwasaki, Akiko, Chien, Anna L., Kang, Sewon]
通讯作者:
Kang, Sewon
DOI:
10.1126/scisignal.abf8483
发表时间:
2021-07-06
期刊:
Science signaling
影响因子:
7.3
作者:
[Cai Y, Kim DJ, Takahashi T, Broadhurst DI, Yan H, Ma S, Rattray NJW, Casanovas-Massana A, Israelow B, Klein J, Lucas C, Mao T, Moore AJ, Muenker MC, Oh JE, Silva J, Wong P, Yale IMPACT Research team, Ko AI, Khan SA, Iwasaki A, Johnson CH]
通讯作者:
Johnson CH
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