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Adaptive plasticity of IL-10+ and IL-35+ Treg cells cooperatively promotes tumor T cell exhaustion

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Sawant, Deepali V., Yano, Hiroshi, Chikina, Maria, Zhang, Qianxia, Liao, Mengting, Liu, Chang, Callahan, Derrick J., Sun, Zhe, Sun, Tao, Tabib, Tracy, Pennathur, Arjun, Corry, David B., Luketich, James D., Lafyatis, Robert, Chen, Wei, Poholek, Amanda C., Bruno, Tullia C., Workman, Creg J., Vignali, Dario A. A.·2019·Nature Immunology

Abstract

Regulatory T cells (Treg cells) maintain host self-tolerance but are a major barrier to effective cancer immunotherapy. Treg cells subvert beneficial anti-tumor immunity by modulating inhibitory receptor expression on tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs); however, the underlying mediators and mechanisms have remained elusive. Here, we found that the cytokines IL-10 and IL-35 (Ebi3–IL-12α heterodimer) were divergently expressed by Treg cell subpopulations in the tumor microenvironment (TME) and cooperatively promoted intratumoral T cell exhaustion by modulating several inhibitory receptor expression and exhaustion-associated transcriptomic signature of CD8+ TILs. While expression of BLIMP1 (encoded by Prdm1) was a common target, IL-10 and IL-35 differentially affected effector T cell versus memory T cell fates, respectively, highlighting their differential, partially overlapping but non-redundant regulation of anti-tumor immunity. Our results reveal previously unappreciated cooperative roles for Treg cell-derived IL-10 and IL-35 in promoting BLIMP1-dependent exhaustion of CD8+ TILs that limits effective anti-tumor immunity. Regulatory T cells obstruct effective anti-cancer immune responses. Vignali and colleagues demonstrate that IL-10 production and IL-35 production by tumor-infiltrating regulatory T cells mediate differential and non-redundant suppressive effects on tumor-reactive cytotoxic T cells.

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Sawant, D. V., Yano, H., Chikina, M., Zhang, Q., Liao, M., Liu, C., Callahan, D. J., Sun, Z., Sun, T., Tabib, T., Pennathur, A., Corry, D. B., Luketich, J. D., Lafyatis, R., Chen, W., Poholek, A. C., Bruno, T. C., Workman, C. J., & Vignali, D. A. A.
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Nature Immunology
Published
2019-04-01
Volume
20
Issue
6
Pages
724-735
ISSN
  • 1529-2908 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-2916
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Sawant, D. V., Yano, H., Chikina, M., Zhang, Q., Liao, M., Liu, C., Callahan, D. J., Sun, Z., Sun, T., Tabib, T., Pennathur, A., Corry, D. B., Luketich, J. D., Lafyatis, R., Chen, W., Poholek, A. C., Bruno, T. C., Workman, C. J., & Vignali, D. A. A. (2019). Adaptive plasticity of IL-10+ and IL-35+ Treg cells cooperatively promotes tumor T cell exhaustion. Nature Immunology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-019-0346-9

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