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Up-Regulation of PD-L1, IDO, and T regs in the Melanoma Tumor Microenvironment Is Driven by CD8 + T Cells
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Tumor escape from immune-mediated destruction has been associated with immunosuppressive mechanisms that inhibit T cell activation. Although evidence for an active immune response, including infiltration with CD8(+) T cells, can be found in a subset of patients, those tumors are nonetheless not immunologically rejected. In the current report, we show that it is the subset of T cell-inflamed tumors that showed high expression of three defined immunosuppressive mechanisms: indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), PD-L1/B7-H1, and FoxP3(+) regulatory T cells (T(regs)), suggesting that these inhibitory pathways might serve as negative feedback mechanisms that followed, rather than preceded, CD8(+) T cell infiltration. Mechanistic studies in mice revealed that up-regulated expression of IDO and PD-L1, as well as recruitment of T(regs), in the tumor microenvironment depended on the presence of CD8(+) T cells. The former was driven by interferon-γ and the latter by a production of CCR4-binding chemokines along with a component of induced proliferation. Our results argue that these major immunosuppressive pathways are intrinsically driven by the immune system rather than being orchestrated by cancer cells, and imply that cancer immunotherapy approaches targeting negative regulatory immune checkpoints might be preferentially beneficial for patients with a preexisting T cell-inflamed tumor microenvironment.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Spranger, S., Spaapen, R. M., Zha, Y., Williams, J., Meng, Y., Ha, T. T., & Gajewski, T. F.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- Spranger, Stefani
- Spaapen, Robbert M.
- Gajewski, Thomas F.
- Venue
- Science Translational Medicine
- Published
- 2013-08-28
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 200
- Pages
- 200ra116-200ra116
- ISSN
- 1946-6234 (ISSN-L)
- 1946-6242
- PMC
- PMC4136707
- OpenAlex
- W2136731993
- Cited by
- 1,677
- References
- 50
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 61.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Science Translational Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA127475, R01CA118153)
- 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
- melanoma, tumor microenvironment, PD-L1, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, regulatory T cells, CD8+ T cells, immunosuppression, immune checkpoint, interferon-gamma, cancer immunotherapy, tumor immune evasion
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Humans, Interferon-gamma, Lymphocyte Activation, Melanoma, Melanoma, Experimental, Neoplasm Metastasis, Up-Regulation, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, Chemokines, Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays, Cell Proliferation, T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory, Mice, Forkhead Transcription Factors, Tumor Microenvironment, B7-H1 Antigen
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