Cited by 276Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersSingle-cell and spatial transcriptomicsImmunotherapy and Immune Responses

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Multimodal pooled Perturb-CITE-seq screens in patient models define mechanisms of cancer immune evasion

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Abstract

Resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) is a key challenge in cancer therapy. To elucidate underlying mechanisms, we developed Perturb-CITE-sequencing (Perturb-CITE-seq), enabling pooled clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-Cas9 perturbations with single-cell transcriptome and protein readouts. In patient-derived melanoma cells and autologous tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) co-cultures, we profiled transcriptomes and 20 proteins in ~218,000 cells under ~750 perturbations associated with cancer cell-intrinsic ICI resistance (ICR). We recover known mechanisms of resistance, including defects in the interferon-γ (IFN-γ)-JAK/STAT and antigen-presentation pathways in RNA, protein and perturbation space, and new ones, including loss/downregulation of CD58. Loss of CD58 conferred immune evasion in multiple co-culture models and was downregulated in tumors of melanoma patients with ICR. CD58 protein expression was not induced by IFN-γ signaling, and CD58 loss conferred immune evasion without compromising major histocompatibility complex (MHC) expression, suggesting that it acts orthogonally to known mechanisms of ICR. This work provides a framework for the deciphering of complex mechanisms by large-scale perturbation screens with multimodal, single-cell readouts, and discovers potentially clinically relevant mechanisms of immune evasion.

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    Genetic signals account for only a minority of ICI resistance cases.

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    The role of CD58 in cancer is poorly understood.

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    The patient-derived melanoma-TIL co-culture with IFNγ pretreatment models T cell-mediated immune selection in human melanoma.

    “Surviving target cells on distinct plates containing all conditions as triplicates were counted to quantify target cell killing to verify accurate immune selection pressure as previously determined in the miniaturized co-culture experiments (above).”
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Authors
Frangieh, C. J., Melms, J. C., Thakore, P. I., Geiger-Schuller, K. R., Ho, P., Luoma, A. M., Cleary, B., Jerby-Arnon, L., Malu, S., Cuoco, M. S., Zhao, M., Ager, C. R., Rogava, M., Hovey, L., Rotem, A., Bernatchez, C., Wucherpfennig, K. W., Johnson, B. E., Rozenblatt-Rosen, O., Schadendorf, D., Regev, A., & Izar, B.
Affiliations
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US)
  • Immunitas Therapeutics (United States) (US)
  • Columbia University (US)
  • The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
  • Essen University Hospital (DE)
Corresponding author
  • Regev, Aviv
  • Izar, Benjamin
Venue
Nature Genetics
Published
2021-03
Volume
53
Issue
3
Pages
332-341
ISSN
  • 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1718
OpenAlex
W3134444564
Cited by
276
References
47
Citations by year
2026: 54 · 2025: 66 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 19
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14.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Genetics (publishedVersion)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Funders
  • Burroughs Wellcome Fund
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (K08CA222663, U54CA225088, P30CA013696)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
Keywords
tumor immune evasion, immune checkpoint inhibitor resistance, melanoma, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, CD58, interferon-gamma signaling, JAK/STAT signaling, antigen presentation, MHC expression, single-cell transcriptomics, single-cell proteomics, patient-derived tumor models
MeSH terms
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, Epitopes, Humans, Interferon-gamma, Melanoma, Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Coculture Techniques, CD58 Antigens, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Tumor Escape, Computational Biology, Gene Knockout Techniques, Single-Cell Analysis, CRISPR-Cas Systems

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