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PD-1 blockade induces responses by inhibiting adaptive immune resistance
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Therapies that target the programmed death-1 (PD-1) receptor have shown unprecedented rates of durable clinical responses in patients with various cancer types. One mechanism by which cancer tissues limit the host immune response is via upregulation of PD-1 ligand (PD-L1) and its ligation to PD-1 on antigen-specific CD8+ T cells (termed adaptive immune resistance). Here we show that pre-existing CD8+ T cells distinctly located at the invasive tumour margin are associated with expression of the PD-1/PD-L1 immune inhibitory axis and may predict response to therapy. We analysed samples from 46 patients with metastatic melanoma obtained before and during anti-PD-1 therapy (pembrolizumab) using quantitative immunohistochemistry, quantitative multiplex immunofluorescence, and next-generation sequencing for T-cell antigen receptors (TCRs). In serially sampled tumours, patients responding to treatment showed proliferation of intratumoral CD8+ T cells that directly correlated with radiographic reduction in tumour size. Pre-treatment samples obtained from responding patients showed higher numbers of CD8-, PD-1- and PD-L1-expressing cells at the invasive tumour margin and inside tumours, with close proximity between PD-1 and PD-L1, and a more clonal TCR repertoire. Using multivariate analysis, we established a predictive model based on CD8 expression at the invasive margin and validated the model in an independent cohort of 15 patients. Our findings indicate that tumour regression after therapeutic PD-1 blockade requires pre-existing CD8+ T cells that are negatively regulated by PD-1/PD-L1-mediated adaptive immune resistance.
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“We compared the tumor-associated immune infiltrates via multi-parameter immunohistochemistry (IHC) and observed a higher density of CD8+ T cells in baseline samples of R versus NR (p=0.04), consistent with prior reports (Fig. 4A and fig. S18) (18, 37).”
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“abundance of T cells at the invasive tumor margin prior to treatment was associated with a better response, whereas upon treatment, T cell densities were increased both at the margin and within the tumor parenchyma in responding patients”
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- Authors
- Tumeh, P. C., Harview, C. L., Yearley, J. H., Shintaku, I. P., Taylor, E. J. M., Robert, L., Chmielowski, B., Spasic, M., Henry, G., Ciobanu, V., West, A. N., Carmona, M., Kivork, C., Seja, E., Cherry, G., Gutierrez, A. J., Grogan, T. R., Mateus, C., Tomasic, G., Glaspy, J. A., Emerson, R. O., Robins, H., Pierce, R. H., Elashoff, D. A., Robert, C., & Ribas, A.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) (US)
- Inserm (FR)
- Adaptive Biotechnologies (United States) (US)
- Fred Hutch Cancer Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tumeh, Paul C.
- Ribas, Antoni
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2014-11-26
- Volume
- 515
- Issue
- 7528
- Pages
- 568-571
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC4246418
- OpenAlex
- W2039123767
- Semantic Scholar
- 2c96ca62d538ff43fce01bc848fc018f6ae2b4a0
- Cited by
- 6,609
- References
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- FWCI
- 220.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Nature (publishedVersion)
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- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- American Association for Cancer Research (SU2C-AACR-DT1012)
- Cancer Research Institute (SU2C-AACR-DT1012, CA16042)
- Melanoma Research Alliance (SU2C-AACR-DT1012)
- Adaptive Biotechnologies
- Institut Gustave-Roussy
- Sociedad Española de Oncología Médica
- National Institutes of Health (UL1TR000124, 5u54ca119347-03, P30 CA- 16042, SU2C-AACR-DT1012, CA16042)
- Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C-AACR-DT1012))
- National Cancer Institute (U54-CA119347, P01CA168585, P30-CA16042, R01CA170689, P30CA016042)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (K08AI091663)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Keywords
- pembrolizumab, adaptive immune resistance, CD8+ T cells, PD-L1, PD-1/PD-L1 axis, metastatic melanoma, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, T cell receptor repertoire, predictive biomarkers, tumor regression, immune checkpoint inhibitors
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Humans, Immunotherapy, Male, Melanoma, Middle Aged, Models, Biological, Biomarkers, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Multivariate Analysis, Treatment Outcome, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, Cell Proliferation, Adaptive Immunity, Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor
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