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Successful Anti-PD-1 Cancer Immunotherapy Requires T Cell-Dendritic Cell Crosstalk Involving the Cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12
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&NA; Anti‐PD‐1 immune checkpoint blockers can induce sustained clinical responses in cancer but how they function in vivo remains incompletely understood. Here, we combined intravital real‐time imaging with single‐cell RNA sequencing analysis and mouse models to uncover anti‐PD‐1 pharmacodynamics directly within tumors. We showed that effective antitumor responses required a subset of tumor‐infiltrating dendritic cells (DCs), which produced interleukin 12 (IL‐12). These DCs did not bind anti‐PD‐1 but produced IL‐12 upon sensing interferon &ggr; (IFN‐&ggr;) that was released from neighboring T cells. In turn, DC‐derived IL‐12 stimulated antitumor T cell immunity. These findings suggest that full‐fledged activation of antitumor T cells by anti‐PD‐1 is not direct, but rather involves T cell:DC crosstalk and is licensed by IFN‐&ggr; and IL‐12. Furthermore, we found that activating the non‐canonical NF‐&kgr;B transcription factor pathway amplified IL‐12‐producing DCs and sensitized tumors to anti‐PD‐1 treatment, suggesting a therapeutic strategy to improve responses to checkpoint blockade. Graphical Abstract Figure. No caption available. HighlightsEffective anti‐PD‐1 anti‐tumor responses require IL‐12‐producing dendritic cellsAnti‐PD‐1 indirectly activates IL‐12 through IFN‐&ggr; produced from CD8+ T cellsAgonizing the non‐canonical NF‐&kgr;B pathway enhances dendritic cell IL‐12 productionCombining aPD‐1 with non‐canonical NF‐&kgr;B agonism enhances checkpoint immunotherapy &NA; Anti‐PD‐1 mAbs can induce sustained clinical responses in cancer but how they function in vivo remains incompletely understood. Garris et al. show that effective anti‐PD‐1 immunotherapy requires intratumoral dendritic cells (DCs) producing IL‐12. Anti‐PD‐1 indirectly activates DCs through IFN‐&ggr; released from drug‐activated T cells. Furthermore, agonizing the non‐canonical NF‐&kgr;B pathway activates DCs and enhances aPD‐1 therapy in an IL‐12‐dependent manner.
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“Stimulated CD8+ T cells substantially increased IFN-γ production in the presence of IL-12 (Figure 4C)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IL-12 activates tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte effector functions in mice
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“we did not find evidence of IFN-γ or IL-12 induction by aPD-1 in the local draining lymph node (Figure S4A and B)”
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“Flow cytometry analysis confirmed these cells to be MHC class II+ F4/80– (Figure S1D)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > scRNAseq shows DC-restricted IL-12 production
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“IL-12p40-eYFP+ cells displayed a branched morphology (mean circularity index: 0.54 ± 0.4), suggesting they were DCs.”
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“parabiosis of tumor-bearing mice indicated that these cells could derive from a blood circulating precursor (Figure S1E).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > scRNAseq shows DC-restricted IL-12 production
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“We found that intratumoral IL-12 substantially expanded IFN-γ-eYFP+ cells (5.9 ± 0.7 fold increase by day four; Figure 4A).”
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“scRNAseq data indicated that aPD-1 treatment triggered the proliferation of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T cells (Figure S4C).”
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“and were unresponsive to aPD-1 treatment (Figure 3F)”
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“blocking lymphocyte recirculation through treatment with the trafficking inhibitor FTY 720 did not affect the antitumor response to aPD-1 treatment (Figure S4D and E).”
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“we found that IL-12+ DCs expressed CD103 in lung tumor models (Figure S2D).”
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“The DCs also failed to bind aPD-1 early after drug administration, i.e. before uptake by TAMs (Figure S3C).”
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“Mice lacking DCs failed to reject tumors in response to aPD-1 (Figure 2H), indicating that these cells were required at the time when aPD-1-mediated tumor rejection occurs.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > DCs and IL-12 are relevant to aPD-1 therapy
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“scRNAseq analysis confirmed the expansion of IL-12+ DCs after aPD-1 treatment (Figure S2E).”
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“IL-12+ DCs in MC38 tumors did not express Itgae (the gene encoding the integrin CD103) (Figure S2C)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > scRNAseq shows DC-restricted IL-12 production
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“we confirmed aPD-1 accumulation in TAMs but not in IL-12+ DCs 24 hours after aPD-1 administration (Figure 3B and Figure S3B).”
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“Mice in which IL-12 was neutralized failed to reject tumors, indicating that IL-12 production following aPD-1 treatment was necessary for achieving tumor control (Figure 2I).”
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“both flow cytometry and scRNAseq analyses indicated that IL-12+ DCs did not express the PD-1 receptor at both transcript (Figure S2A) and protein (Figure 3A) levels.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IFN-γ sensing by DCs controls IL-12 production
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“IL-12p40 (also known as IL12b) expression was contained exclusively within the DC1 population (Figure 2F).”
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“Tumors from these mice showed impaired IL-12p40 production (Fig. 3E)”
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“However, IL-12+ DCs did not express detectable levels of FcγR transcripts, in contrast to TAMs (Figure S3A).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IFN-γ sensing by DCs controls IL-12 production
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“Consistent with previous reports (Nastala et al., 1994), IL-12 administration to MC38 tumors produced robust antitumor responses (Figure 4B).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IL-12 activates tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte effector functions in mice
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- Not checked yetcites Nastala et al., 1994 source
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“Additionally , DC1s were enriched for the T cell co-stimulatory factors Cd80, Cd83, Cd86 and Icam1 (Figure 2D)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > scRNAseq shows DC-restricted IL-12 production
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“Consequently , IFN-γ blockade prevented aPD-1-mediated MC38 tumor control (Figure S3G).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IFN-γ sensing by DCs controls IL-12 production
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“IFN-γ-eYFP+ cells accumulated within the tumor stroma and were mostly CD8+ T cells (Figure S1B).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Successful aPD-1 treatment triggers endogenous IFN-γ and IL-12 responses within tumors
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“In comparison to the few IL-12+ cells detected before aPD-1 treatment, those present after treatment accumulated in deeper regions of the tumor (Figure 1D, E) and closer to vessels (Figure 1F).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Successful aPD-1 treatment triggers endogenous IFN-γ and IL-12 responses within tumors
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“Absence of CD8+ T cells abrogated IL-12 production (Figure 3C).”
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“We found that IFN-γ blockade reduced IL-12 production within the tumor microenvironment (Figure 3D).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IFN-γ sensing by DCs controls IL-12 production
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“we found that DC1s were enriched in IL-12-related production factors such as Cd40 and Irf8 (Figure 2G).”
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“recapitulation of IFN-γ /IL-12 positive feedback mechanisms, through combination therapy, enables tumor control in harder-to-treat cancer models.”
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“key non-canonical NFkB pathway genes, namely Cd40, Birc2 (Ciap1), Map3k14 (Nik), Nfkb2 (p100) and Relb, were all selectively up-regulated in the IL-12+ tumor-infiltrating DC subset (Figure 6A).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Activation of the non-canonical NFkB pathway amplifies IL-12-producing DCs
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“The presence of IL-12 increased IFN-γ production by CD8+ T cells in five out of six patients (Figure 5D).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IL-12 activates tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte effector functions in cancer patients
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“tumor control was lost in animals receiving IL-12 neutralizing mAbs (Figure 7B).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“Comparison of pre- and post-treatment samples revealed that IL-12 delivery enhanced expression of core cytolytic genes (Rooney et al., 2015) within tumors (Figure 5A, B).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IL-12 activates tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte effector functions in cancer patients
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- Not checked yetcites Rooney et al., 2015 source
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“but further identified that the treatment induced a 6.6 ± 1.2-fold increase of tumor-infiltrating IL-12+ cells (Figure 6C).”
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“blocking IL-12 signaling prevented the combination treatment’s therapeutic activity (Figure 7G and Figure S7G).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“Mice that received combination treatment further resisted tumor re-challenge 8 weeks after the primary tumor rejection (Figure S7D)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“stimulation of Flt3L- derived bone marrow DCs with AZD5582 potently enhanced IL-12 production in vitro (Figure S6C).”
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“we observed a positive association between enhanced cytolytic gene signature and therapeutic response in these patients (Figure 5C).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IL-12 activates tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte effector functions in cancer patients
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“these mice resisted secondary tumor challenge (Figure 7E)”
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“NIK chimeras failed to respond to aPD-1 (Figure S7A).”
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“our studies indicated that non-canonical NFkB-targeting drugs depend upon IL-12 for mediating antitumor activity”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“The combination treatment rejected tumors in 50% (6 of 12) mice”
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“recombinant IL-12 administered to B16F10 melanoma-bearing mice also produced a substantial antitumor effect (Figure 7F)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“We found that IL-12+ DCs do not alway s express the marker CD103 (encoded by Itgae), which is often used to define antitumor DCs.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“IL-12 is required for immunotherapy efficacy”
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“This imaging approach not only showed the drug’s ability to interact directly with IL-12+ tumor-infiltrating cells, and some macrophages, in vivo (Figure 6B)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Activation of the non-canonical NFkB pathway amplifies IL-12-producing DCs
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“Flow cy tometry measurements indicated that IL-12 was produced by DCs but not TAMs (Figure 6D, E).”
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“Treating tumors with the cIAP antagonist AZD5582 induced a 4.0 ± 1.3-fold increase of IL-12+ tumor-infiltrating cells (Figure 6C)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Activation of the non-canonical NFkB pathway amplifies IL-12-producing DCs
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“Our data further indicate that IL-12-producing DCs can be generated by circulating precursors”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“our analysis demonstrated that activating the non-canonical NFkB pathway in intratumoral DCs through either CD40 agonism or cIAP inhibition, can potently enhance aPD-1-mediated tumor control.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“IL-12+ DCs share many features with cross-presenting DC1 cells, including expression of Batf3, Irf8, Flt3, and Ly 75 (DEC205)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“indicating that IL-12 production following aPD-1 treatment was necessary for achieving tumor control (Figure 2I).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > DCs and IL-12 are relevant to aPD-1 therapy
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“Based on these data we concluded that it was unlikely for aPD-1 to bind and activate IL-12+ DCs directly .”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IFN-γ sensing by DCs controls IL-12 production
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“indicating that these cells were required at the time when aPD-1-mediated tumor rejection occurs.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > DCs and IL-12 are relevant to aPD-1 therapy
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“underscoring the importance of IFN-y sensing by DCs, and potentially other CD11c expressing cells, during aPD-1 therapy .”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IFN-γ sensing by DCs controls IL-12 production
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“Collectively , these data demonstrate a distinct population of IL-12-producing DCs in the tumor microenvironment.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > scRNAseq shows DC-restricted IL-12 production
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“indicating that tumor-infiltrating T cells can respond to IL-12 directly.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IL-12 activates tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte effector functions in mice
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“These data suggest that pre-existing tumor-infiltrating T cells are sufficient for driving the response to aPD-1 at least in this model.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IL-12 activates tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte effector functions in mice
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“suggesting that the checkpoint blockade response occurs within tumors.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IL-12 activates tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte effector functions in mice
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“These observations indicated that IL-12 can induce cytolytic activity in human tumors.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IL-12 activates tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte effector functions in cancer patients
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“indicating that the treatment had also triggered antitumor memory in this model.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“Previous attempts to develop IL-12-based therapies for human use had severely toxic consequences (Lasek et al., 2014) likely due to systemic administration routes.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Lasek et al., 2014 source
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“The findings presented here show that IL-12 cy tokine signals supplied by intratumoral DCs assist antitumor immunity.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“Collectively, these patient data recapitulate our observations in mice that IL-12 can directly stimulate tumor-infiltrating T cell antitumor activity.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IL-12 activates tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte effector functions in cancer patients
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“These data support an IL-12-driven “licensing” model of aPD-1 therapy , in which aPD-1 mAb targeting of T cells leads to tumor elimination only after successful crosstalk between these T cells and DCs.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“indicate that triggering the non-canonical NFkB pathway , through CD40 agonism or cIAP inhibition, can amplify IL-12+ tumor-infiltrating DCs.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Activation of the non-canonical NFkB pathway amplifies IL-12-producing DCs
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“These studies showed that IL-12 induction was a primary mechanism for these treatments because tumor control was lost in animals receiving IL-12 neutralizing mAbs (Figure 7B).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“this indicated that the treatment had triggered antitumor memory .”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“The IFN-γ induction by aCD40 likely occurred indirectly as T cells did not express CD40 (Figure 6A).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“suggesting that B cells are not necessary for aCD40 treatment in this experimental model”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Activation of the non-canonical NFkB pathway amplifies IL-12-producing DCs
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“appears essential for T cell-driven antitumor immunity (Hildner et al., 2008)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Hildner et al., 2008 source
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“We found that the antitumor cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 were mutually induced by immunotherapy”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“Furthermore, triggering the T cell:DC crosstalk through non-canonical NFkB agonism in combination with aPD1 treatment could potently enhance antitumor immunity .”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“Intravital imaging of the tumor microenvironment revealed a 6.0 ± 1.1 (mean ± SEM) fold expansion of IFN-γ- eYFP+ cells one day after a single aPD-1 injection; this increase was sustained for up to 3 days post treatment (Figure 1B and S1A).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Successful aPD-1 treatment triggers endogenous IFN-γ and IL-12 responses within tumors
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“The ability for IL-12+ cells to accumulate within tumors was supported by the real-time imaging observation that these cells were motile one day after aPD-1 treatment (motility coefficient: ~10 µm2/min; Figure 1G-H and Supplemental Video 1) and much less so on day five (<1 µm2/min; Figure 1G-H and Supplemental Video 2).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Successful aPD-1 treatment triggers endogenous IFN-γ and IL-12 responses within tumors
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“Both DC subsets were largely negative for the macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor Csf1r (Figure 2C), although some DC2s expressed this receptor (Figure S2A), similarly to a subset of intratumoral DCs previously reported (Broz et al., 2014).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > scRNAseq shows DC-restricted IL-12 production
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- Not checked yetcites Broz et al., 2014 source
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“Both DC1s and DC2s expressed the DC markers Batf3, Flt3, H2-Dmb2 and Zbtb46 (Meredith et al., 2012; Hildner et al., 2008;); DC1 expressed Fscn1 and Ly 75 (DEC-205) whereas DC2s expressed CD209a (DC- SIGN), Mgl2 (CD301b) and Cd24a (Figure 2B and Figure S2B).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > scRNAseq shows DC-restricted IL-12 production
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“and DC1s and DC2s expressed distinct chemokines and chemokine receptors (Figure 2E).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > scRNAseq shows DC-restricted IL-12 production
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“Decreased IL-12 production by DCs (Figure S3D) and decreased numbers of IL-12+ DCs (Figure S3E, F) both contributed to this reduction.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IFN-γ sensing by DCs controls IL-12 production
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“Intravital imaging further revealed a 12.1 ± 3.7 fold increase of IL-12p40-eYFP+ cells on day one post treatment, which persisted for at least five days (Figure 1C and S1C).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Successful aPD-1 treatment triggers endogenous IFN-γ and IL-12 responses within tumors
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“DC1s had higher expression of the granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor Csf2rb compared to DC2s, and neither DC1s nor DC2s expressed the granulocyte colony-stimulating factor receptor Csf3r (Figure 2C).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > scRNAseq shows DC-restricted IL-12 production
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“in the experimental setups used in this study we found that CD8+ T cells and DCs are the primary producers of IFN-γ and IL-12, respectively”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“We confirmed that IL-12+ cells had more cell surface CD40 than their IL-12– counterparts (Figure S6A) and that IL-12+ DCs expressed more CD40 than tumor-associated macrophages (Figure S6B).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Activation of the non-canonical NFkB pathway amplifies IL-12-producing DCs
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“treatment with either agonistic aCD40 mAbs or AZD5582 provided antitumor effects in vivo (Figure 7B).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“We found that combining aPD-1 with aCD40 mAbs controlled B16F10 tumor growth (Figure S7E and F) and resulted in increased mouse survival (Figure 7D), when compared to aPD-1 or aCD40 monotherapies.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“since IL-12+ DCs express the highest levels of CD28’s co-stimulatory ligands, CD80 and CD86”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“In total, 4095 cells (1154 untreated and 2941 aPD-1 treated cells) passed QC and were sequenced.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > METHOD DETAILS > Single Cell RNA Sequencing
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“IFNG was not detectably increased in the post-treatment samples, which is expected from the timing of tissue collection and rapid on/off cycling of IFN-γ production by T cells (Slifka et al., 1999).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IL-12 activates tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte effector functions in cancer patients
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- Not checked yetcites Slifka et al., 1999 source
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“We found that monotherapies incompletely controlled tumor growth, whereas the combination treatment produced a complete, durable response in most animals treated (Figure 7C and Figure S7B and C).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“These findings indicate that aPD-1 delivery to tumors functionally impacts at least two non-overlapping cell populations, which respond differently to treatment: CD8+ T cells that activate the IFN- γ signaling pathway , and DC-like cells that turn on IL-12 production.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Successful aPD-1 treatment triggers endogenous IFN-γ and IL-12 responses within tumors
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“This discrepancy may be due to tissue location, as we found that IL-12+ DCs expressed CD103 in lung tumor models (Figure S2D).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > scRNAseq shows DC-restricted IL-12 production
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“The requirement for both T cell co-stimulation and IL-12 to achieve maximal IFN-γ response likely reflected the need of CD28 to rescue exhausted CD8+ T cells, and possibly also the role of PD-1 in limiting CD28-mediated co-stimulation (Kamphorst et al., 2017; Hui et al., 2017).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IL-12 activates tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte effector functions in mice
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“Together, we find an indirect aPD-1 effect on DCs; this effect was mediated through IFN-γ and is critical for IL-12 induction and, consequently , treatment response.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > IFN-γ sensing by DCs controls IL-12 production
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“Collectively , these data indicate that aPD-1 treatment induces IL-12 production by DCs, and that both DCs and IL-12 critically regulate aPD-1 treatment potency .”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > DCs and IL-12 are relevant to aPD-1 therapy
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“All biopsies were from University of California, San Francisco Medical Center-Mt. Zion, San Francisco, and Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City , Utah, and were approved by each organization’s institutional review board.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > STAR METHODS > EXPERIMENTAL MODEL AND SUBJECT DETAILS
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“IL-12 production required DC sensing of IFN-γ , and, in turn, licensed effector T cell responses in both mice and cancer patients.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“targeted intratumoral delivery of IL-12 encoding plasmids is safe and has already demonstrated antitumor efficacy as monotherapy (Daud et al., 2008).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Daud et al., 2008 source
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“starting tumor volumes were normalized between treatment groups.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > STAR METHODS > EXPERIMENTAL MODEL AND SUBJECT DETAILS
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“We suggest further that responses to immunotherapy can be improved through rational drug combinations that accentuate the crosstalk between lymphoid and myeloid immune compartments.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“besides their critical role for priming T cells in lymph nodes (Martin-Fontecha et al., 2003)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Martin-Fontecha et al., 2003 source
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“IL-12 may be both a marker and functional feature of immunostimulatory tumor DCs, based on our findings that i) IL-12+ DCs share many features with cross-presenting DC1 cells, including expression of Batf3, Irf8, Flt3, and Ly 75 (DEC205), and ii) IL-12 is required for immunotherapy efficacy”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“Caveats still exist with this imaging approach however as distribution and effector functions of antibodies may differ between species and antibody compositions.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“The study was approved by the local Ethical Review Board (Ethikkommission Nordwestschweiz) and University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > STAR METHODS > EXPERIMENTAL MODEL AND SUBJECT DETAILS
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“Taken together, these data linked the non-canonical NFkB pathway to antitumor intratumoral DCs and to aPD-1 treatment efficacy , and indicated that targeting non-canonical NFkB components can be therapeutic in cancer.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“Blood from mice was used to confirm lymphocyte trafficking defects.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > METHOD DETAILS > FTY 720 Treatments
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“antitumor immune functions may not necessarily be cell type-dependent”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“These data indicate that DC targeting can augment immunotherapy efficacy and sensitize tumors to aPD-1 treatment in an IL-12-dependent manner.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Results > Amplification of IL-12+ DCs improves cancer immunotherapy in an IL-12-dependent manner
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“All patients consented in writing to the analysis of their tumor samples.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > STAR METHODS > EXPERIMENTAL MODEL AND SUBJECT DETAILS
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“under different experimental contexts it is possible that NK cells may also produce IFN-γ and macrophages may also produce IL-12.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“The findings presented here align with the notion that intratumoral DCs can exhibit key antitumor functions and promote aPD-1 immunotherapy.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“Mouse tumors were allowed to grow to a maximum of 2 cm in diameter, or until tumor ulceration occurred. These were considered as endpoints for survival experiments in accordance with MGH IACUC regulations.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > STAR METHODS > EXPERIMENTAL MODEL AND SUBJECT DETAILS
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“Treatments combining CD40 agonists with PD-1 pathway inhibitors (NCT03123783, NCT02376699), and cIAP inhibitors with aPD-L1 (NCT03270176), are currently in clinical trials.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites NCT03123783
- Not checked yetcites NCT02376699
- Not checked yetcites NCT03270176
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“We suggest that both treatment strategies may rely upon the non-canonical NFkB pathway and DCs.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“We also showed that IL-12-producing DCs were enriched for non-canonical NFkB signaling pathway components, that the critical non-canonical NFkB kinase NIK was required for aPD-1 response, and that agonism of the non-canonical NFkB pathway in a therapeutic setting produced an IL-12-dependent antitumor response.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“prior evidence that cross- presenting tumor DCs have elevated IL-12 expression (Broz et al., 2014; Ruffell et al., 2014)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
What the sources say
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In the paper
“the cDC1 subtype of DCs, which resembles the DC1 subtype presented here, is adept at cross- presenting antigens (Schlitzer and Ginhoux, 2014)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Schlitzer and Ginhoux, 2014
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“recent studies demonstrated that DCs can be found in tumors, where they recruit T cells and stimulate tumor-reactive T cell responses locally (Spranger et al., 2014; de Mingo Pulido et al., 2018)”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
What the sources say
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“Real-time in vivo imaging allows one to identify not only primary targets of immunotherapeutics (drug pharmacokinetics) (Arlauckas et al., 2017) but also how the tumor microenvironment responds to treatment (drug pharmacody namics).”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Arlauckas et al., 2017 source
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“Principally , we identified that aPD-1 directly induced IFN-γ production by activated T cells, but indirectly induced IL-12 production by a subset of intratumoral DCs.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > Discussion
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“Experiments were approved by the MGH Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and were performed in accordance with MGH IACUC regulations.”
§ Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 > STAR METHODS > EXPERIMENTAL MODEL AND SUBJECT DETAILS
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B cell depletion did not affect anti-CD40 therapy in this experimental model.
“We found that B cell depletion had no effect on aCD40 therapy , suggesting that B cells are not necessary for aCD40 treatment in this experimental model (data not shown).”
The paper relies on this without support.
The MC38 tumor model responds to anti-PD-1 treatment.
“Here, we initially used the MC38 mouse tumor model because it is sensitive to aPD-1 treatment and thus is relevant to define mechanisms dictating treatment success.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Garris, C. S., Arlauckas, S. P., Kohler, R. H., Trefny, M. P., Garren, S., Piot, C., Engblom, C., Pfirschke, C., Siwicki, M., Gungabeesoon, J., Freeman, G. J., Warren, S. E., Ong, S., Browning, E., Twitty, C. G., Pierce, R. H., Le, M. H., Algazi, A. P., Daud, A. I., Pai, S. I., Zippelius, A., Weissleder, R., & Pittet, M. J.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- University Hospital of Basel (CH)
- Nanostring Technologies (United States) (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Immunity
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-12
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1148-1161.e7
- ISSN
- 1074-7613 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6301092
- OpenAlex
- W2904099327
- Semantic Scholar
- 1209b0cd82a4fa3c176fbcbc8f01817d21cdace6
- Cited by
- 966
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 101 · 2025: 118 · 2024: 130 · 2023: 138 · 2022: 146 · 2021: 150 · 2020: 124 · 2019: 57 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 30.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2022-09-13)
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Immunity (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Samana Cay MGH Research Scholar Fund
- Robert Wenner Award from the Swiss Cancer League
- NIH (R01-AI084880, R01-CA218579, R01-AI123349, R01-CA206890, R33-CA202064, U01CA206997, P01 AI056299, P50CA101942, F31-CA196035, T32-CA79443)
- Swiss National Cancer Foundation (320030_162575)
- MGH ECOR Tosteson Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
- Keywords
- anti-PD-1 therapy, immune checkpoint blockade, tumor-infiltrating dendritic cells, IL-12, interferon-gamma, T cell-mediated antitumor immunity, NF-κB signaling, intravital imaging, single-cell RNA sequencing, pharmacodynamics, cancer immunotherapy
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Animals, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Dendritic Cells, Female, Humans, Immunotherapy, Interferon-gamma, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Transgenic, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, T-Lymphocytes, Signal Transduction, NF-kappa B, Interleukin-12, Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor
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