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T-cell invigoration to tumour burden ratio associated with anti-PD-1 response

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Huang, Alexander C., Postow, Michael A., Orlowski, Robert J., Mick, Rosemarie, Bengsch, Bertram, Manne, Sasikanth, Xu, Wei, Harmon, Shannon +26 more·2017·Nature

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Despite the success of monotherapies based on blockade of programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) in human melanoma, most patients do not experience durable clinical benefit. Pre-existing T-cell infiltration and/or the presence of PD-L1 in tumours may be used as indicators of clinical response; however, blood-based profiling to understand the mechanisms of PD-1 blockade has not been widely explored. Here we use immune profiling of peripheral blood from patients with stage IV melanoma before and after treatment with the PD-1-targeting antibody pembrolizumab and identify pharmacodynamic changes in circulating exhausted-phenotype CD8 T cells (T ex cells). Most of the patients demonstrated an immunological response to pembrolizumab. Clinical failure in many patients was not solely due to an inability to induce immune reinvigoration, but rather resulted from an imbalance between T-cell reinvigoration and tumour burden. The magnitude of reinvigoration of circulating T ex cells determined in relation to pretreatment tumour burden correlated with clinical response. By focused profiling of a mechanistically relevant circulating T-cell subpopulation calibrated to pretreatment disease burden, we identify a clinically accessible potential on-treatment predictor of response to PD-1 blockade.

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Huang, A. C., Postow, M. A., Orlowski, R. J., Mick, R., Bengsch, B., Manne, S., Xu, W., Harmon, S., Giles, J. R., Wenz, B., Adamow, M., Kuk, D., Panageas, K. S., Carrera, C., Wong, P., Quagliarello, F., Wubbenhorst, B., D’Andrea, K., Pauken, K. E., Herati, R. S., Staupe, R. P., Schenkel, J. M., McGettigan, S., Kothari, S., George, S. M., Vonderheide, R. H., Amaravadi, R. K., Karakousis, G. C., Schuchter, L. M., Xu, X., Nathanson, K. L., Wolchok, J. D., Gangadhar, T. C., & Wherry, E. J.
Affiliations
  • Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (US)
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Abramson Cancer Center (US)
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
  • Huang, Alexander C.
  • Gangadhar, Tara C.
  • Wherry, E. John
Venue
Nature
Published
2017-04-10
Volume
545
Issue
7652
Pages
60-65
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2605630275
Cited by
1,664
References
34
Citations by year
2026: 105 · 2025: 132 · 2024: 158 · 2023: 187 · 2022: 207 · 2021: 231 · 2020: 228 · 2019: 203 · 2018: 165 · 2017: 46
FWCI
77.41
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • National Institutes of Health (KL2TR001879)
  • National Institute on Aging (F32AG047773)
  • National Cancer Institute (T32CA009140, P01CA114046, P50CA174523, P30CA008748, T32CA009615, P30CA016520)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI105343, K08AI114852, U19AI117950, U19AI082630, P01AI108545)
  • 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
anti-PD-1 therapy, pembrolizumab, advanced melanoma, exhausted CD8+ T cells, T cell reinvigoration, tumor burden, peripheral blood T cells, immune checkpoint inhibitors, predictive biomarkers, treatment response prediction, pharmacodynamics
MeSH terms
Female, Humans, Male, Melanoma, Neoplasm Staging, Phenotype, Treatment Outcome, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, Ki-67 Antigen, Tumor Burden, Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized

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