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Targeting HIF-1α abrogates PD-L1–mediated immune evasion in tumor microenvironment but promotes tolerance in normal tissues
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A combination of anti-CTLA-4 plus anti-PD-1/PD-L1 is the most effective cancer immunotherapy but causes high incidence of immune-related adverse events (irAEs). Here we report that targeting of HIF-1α suppressed PD-L1 expression on tumor cells and tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells, but unexpectedly induced PD-L1 in normal tissues by an IFN-γ-dependent mechanism. Targeting the HIF-1α/PD-L1 axis in tumor cells reactivated tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and caused tumor rejection. The HIF-1α inhibitor echinomycin potentiated the cancer immunotherapeutic effects of anti-CTLA-4 therapy, with efficacy comparable to that of anti-CTLA-4 plus anti-PD-1 antibodies. However, while anti-PD-1 exacerbated irAEs triggered by ipilimumab, echinomycin protected mice against irAEs by increasing PD-L1 levels in normal tissues. Our data suggest that targeting HIF-1α fortifies the immune tolerance function of the PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint in normal tissues but abrogates its immune evasion function in the tumor microenvironment to achieve safer and more effective immunotherapy.
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Targeting HIF-1α with liposomal echinomycin (LEM) suppresses PD-L1 in the tumor microenvironment and reactivates antitumor immunity, while unexpectedly inducing PD-L1 in normal tissues via IFN-γ. This differential regulation potentiates anti–CTLA-4 therapy without the irAE exacerbation seen with anti–PD-1.
Key findings
- LEM reduced PD-L1 on tumor cells and tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells (M-MDSCs, PMN-MDSCs, and CD11b+CD11c+ cells, ~90% of which were F4/80+ TAMs), increased IFN-γ+CD8+ (Tc1) and IFN-γ+CD4+ (Th1) TILs, and inhibited tumor growth in immunocompetent but less so in immunodeficient mice.
- LEM potentiated anti–CTLA-4 (9D9) therapy in 4T1, E0771, and MC38 models, with efficacy comparable to anti–CTLA-4 plus anti–PD-1; optimal efficacy required CD8+, NK, and CD4+ cells, with CD8+ cells most critical.
- In normal tissues, LEM induced PD-L1 in liver, kidney, and intestine by an IFN-γ–dependent mechanism; in CTLA4h/h-KI mice, LEM protected against ipilimumab-induced intestinal leakage, and adding anti–IFN-γ increased the frequency of mice with leakage from 7.7% to 20.0%.
- Anti–PD-1 abrogated LEM’s protection against ipilimumab-induced GI irAEs, whereas LEM protected mice by increasing normal-tissue PD-L1; the paper notes dual checkpoint blockade causes severe irAEs in 50%–90% of patients depending on setting.
Methods
- Syngeneic mouse tumor models: 4T1 and E0771 breast cancer and MC38 colon adenocarcinoma in BALB/c, C57BL/6, and NSG mice; genetic tools included shHif1a, shPdl1, and conditional Hif1a knockout in T cells.
- Treatments: liposomal echinomycin (LEM) i.v. at 0.15–0.25 mg/kg; anti–mouse CTLA-4 (9D9), anti–PD-1 (RMP1-14), anti–IFN-γ (XMG1.2), and depleting CD4/CD8/NK antibodies; readouts included flow cytometry, immunofluorescence, histology, and FITC-dextran intestinal permeability.
- GI irAE model: 10-day-old human CTLA4-knockin mice received ipilimumab i.p. on days 10, 13, 16, and 19; FITC-dextran assay on day 32. Statistics used t tests, 1-way/2-way ANOVA with Sidak’s post hoc test, and Pearson correlation in Prism 8, with P < 0.05 significant.
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- Stated: adult tumor-bearing mice tolerated high-dose anti–CTLA-4 without significant irAEs, so the irAE studies relied on young CTLA4h/h-KI mice.
- Stated: it is unclear whether LEM promotes Tc1 expansion in vivo by cell-intrinsic HIF-1α targeting or indirectly by reducing regulatory T cells.
- Evident: all efficacy and toxicity data are preclinical mouse models; no human clinical outcomes or patient data are reported.
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“In a second breast cancer model, E0771, the therapeutic effects of LEM were also more pronounced in immune-competent mice (Figure 2C).”
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“LEM significantly inhibited 4T1 growth in both immunocompetent (BALB/c) and immunodeficient (NSG) recipients compared with each strain’s respective vehicle control (Figure 2B).”
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“LEM did not further suppress sh-Pdl1 E0771 tumor growth in C57BL/6 (Figure 3C) or NSG (Figure 3D) recipients.”
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“there was a marked reduction in PD-L1 expression in the tumors of LEM-treated mice.”
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“LEM more effectively inhibited sh-Scr E0771 tumor growth in C57BL/6 (Figure 3C) compared with NSG (Figure 3D) recipients”
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“Under basal conditions, we found that knockdown of Hif1a reduced PD-L1 protein expression (Figure 1, G–J).”
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“Both cell lines expressed HIF-1α and PD-L1 protein (Figure 1, A and B; see complete unedited blots in the supplemental material)”
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“4T1 growth was more significantly inhibited in immunocompetent mice than in immunodeficient mice”
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“As with E0771, all therapeutic effects required immune competence (Figure 2D).”
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“In C57BL/6, but not NSG recipients, genetic depletion of Hif1a (sh-Hif1a) in E0771 cells significantly inhibited tumor growth compared with E0771 transduced with scrambled shRNA (sh-Scr) in mice of the same respective strains (Figure 3B).”
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“loss of Pdl1 (sh-Pdl1) in E0771 cells also inhibited tumor growth in C57BL/6, but not NSG, recipients (Figure 3B)”
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“TNF-α was unaffected by the therapies in CD4+ TILs, although we observed increased TNF-α+CD8+ TILs in groups receiving 9D9 (Supplemental Figure 5, E and F).”
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“The proportion of tumor-infiltrating NK cells expressing granzyme B and perforin were decreased and increased, respectively, in mice treated with 9D9 alone (Supplemental Figure 5, K and L).”
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“The inflammation was largely abrogated by LEM, as mice treated with ipilimumab plus LEM for the most part exhibited normal intestinal pathology (Figure 8F).”
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“The drug treatments had minimal impact on CD4+ TIL expression of CTLA-4 (Supplemental Figure 5B).”
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“Conditional knockout of Hif1a in T cells did not phenocopy the effects of LEM on PD-L1 induction in the liver, but PD-L1 induction was preserved regardless of the mouse genotype (Supplemental Figure 14).”
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“Annexin V staining revealed more apoptotic CD8+ and CD4+ TILs in tumors of 9D9-treated mice compared with vehicle, and adding LEM appeared to repress this effect in CD8+ TILs (Figure 6C).”
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“9D9 significantly increased and decreased the frequencies of effector and memory CD8+ T cells in the tumors, respectively (Supplemental Figure 6).”
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“Compared with vehicle, all treatments increased the frequencies of both IFN-γ+CD8+ (Tc1) and IFN-γ+CD4+ (Th1) subsets, although the highest frequencies of Tc1 were observed in mice receiving 9D9 plus LEM (Figure 5, E and F).”
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“The same trend was seen for CD4+ TILs, although the difference between the 9D9 and 9D9 plus LEM groups was not significant (Figure 6D).”
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“None of the therapies significantly impacted frequencies of tumor-infiltrating Treg or Th17 cells, except for a modest decrease in Tregs for groups receiving 9D9 (Supplemental Figure 5, I and J).”
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“Roughly one-fifth of CD4+ TILs were granzyme B+, which was not significantly affected by drug treatments (Figure 6G).”
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“we observed significant inhibition of tumor growth by LEM or 9D9 monotherapy compared with vehicle, while the greatest inhibition was achieved by 9D9 plus LEM or RMP1-14 (Figure 4, C and D).”
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“E0771 mice treated with 9D9 had higher expression of exhaustion marker PD-1 on CD8+ TILs compared with vehicle, which was reversed by LEM (Figure 6A).”
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“LEM alone did not stimulate increased infiltration of T or NK cells in the tissues with PD-L1 expression (Figure 7, B–D, and Supplemental Figure 11), but led to a modest increase in IFN-γ detected in the serum (Supplemental Figure 12).”
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“These studies revealed that optimal efficacy required all 3 cell types, with CD8+ cells being the most critical, followed by NK and CD4+ cells (Figure 6I).”
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“the anti–IFN-γ neutralizing mAb XMG1.2, which abrogated PD-L1 induction by 9D9 plus LEM treatment and increased T cell infiltration in the kidneys and liver (Figure 7, B–D).”
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“the frequency of T cells as well as those of Tc1 and Th1 expanded in the spleen of mice that received 9D9 plus LEM treatment (Figure 7, E–G).”
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“These results demonstrate that HIF-1α controls PD-L1 expression in E0771 cells and that echinomycin reduced PD-L1 by inhibiting the HIF-1α/PD-L1 axis.”
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“Thus, the immunotherapeutic effects of pharmacological HIF-1α inhibition in the context of anti–CTLA-4 are multiple-cell dependent, but primarily depend on CD8+ T cells.”
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“HIF-1α is generally inactivated in normal tissues but frequently stabilized in tumor cells regardless of oxygen tension (49, 50).”
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“Here, we showed that targeting HIF-1α not only overcomes immune evasion in the TME, but also fortifies the immune tolerance checkpoint in normal tissues.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The current approach that overcomes tumor evasion of host immunity also disables the immune tolerance checkpoint, leading to significant irAEs, particularly when used in conjunction with anti–CTLA-4 antibodies.
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“The results show that, in addition to tumor cells, in vivo HIF-1α inhibition can also suppress PD-L1 on tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells, and these effects persist in the context of anti–CTLA-4 therapy.”
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“The GI tract is the most frequent target of irAEs (31).”
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“Our data suggest that targeting HIF-1α fortifies the immune tolerance function of the PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint in normal tissues but abrogates its immune evasion function in the tumor microenvironment to achieve safer and more effective immunotherapy.”
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“On the other hand, studies by Johnson and colleagues found HIF-1α to be essential for myeloid cell–mediated inflammation (40).”
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“While HIF-1α has been shown to be involved in degradation of Foxp3 and induce the Th17 phenotype (26)”
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“Sample sizes were chosen with adequate statistical power on the basis of the literature and past experience.”
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“Sitkovsky’s group originally demonstrated the first in vitro evidence that hypoxia is immunosuppressive for T cells (36)”
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“All experiments were replicated at least twice with similar results.”
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“Thus, the data presented herein revealed a cancer cell–intrinsic inhibition of PD-L1 and normal tissue cell–extrinsic induction of PD-L1 by LEM.”
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“According to Doedens et al., HIFs enhance the effector responses of CD8+ T cells to persistent antigen (42).”
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“The induced PD-L1 is causatively associated with reduction in inflammation and intestinal leakage induced by anti–CTLA-4 antibodies, as it is abrogated by anti–PD-1 antibodies.”
§ Targeting HIF-1α abrogates PD-L1–mediated immune evasion in tumor microenvironment but promotes tolerance in normal tissues > Discussion
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“All procedures involving experimental animals were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.”
§ Targeting HIF-1α abrogates PD-L1–mediated immune evasion in tumor microenvironment but promotes tolerance in normal tissues > Methods > Study approval.
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“On day 6 after transplantation, mice were assigned to treatment groups such that comparable initial mean tumor volumes between experimental and control groups were achieved.”
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“We have reported that echinomycin effectively eliminated leukemia stem cells (34).”
§ Targeting HIF-1α abrogates PD-L1–mediated immune evasion in tumor microenvironment but promotes tolerance in normal tissues > Discussion
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“Together, these 2 activities provide what we believe is the first example in cancer immunotherapy of an approach that abrogates the PD-1–PD-L1 checkpoint in the TME to eliminate immune evasion by cancer cells, while fortifying its immune tolerance checkpoint activity in normal tissues.”
§ Targeting HIF-1α abrogates PD-L1–mediated immune evasion in tumor microenvironment but promotes tolerance in normal tissues > Discussion
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“In T cells, HIF-1α is transiently stabilized in T cells following TCR activation (41), and plays an important role in regulating Treg and Th17 balance (26).”
§ Targeting HIF-1α abrogates PD-L1–mediated immune evasion in tumor microenvironment but promotes tolerance in normal tissues > Discussion
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“Targeting HIF-1α in immunotherapy is a relatively new concept, for which proof of principle has been amply demonstrated by others (12, 23, 27).”
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“its function in inducing the Th1 phenotype has also been reported (51).”
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“In contrast to anti–PD-1, LEM not only further enhanced anti–CTLA-4–induced PD-L1 in normal tissue, but also allowed PD-L1 to signal through PD-1 to supercharge the immune tolerance checkpoint function.”
§ Targeting HIF-1α abrogates PD-L1–mediated immune evasion in tumor microenvironment but promotes tolerance in normal tissues > Discussion
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“Appropriate statistical tests were selected on the basis of whether the data with outlier deletion was normally distributed by using the D’Agostino & Pearson normality test.”
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Clinical development of echinomycin for solid tumors has met with minimal success.
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The current approach that overcomes tumor evasion of host immunity also disables the immune tolerance checkpoint, leading to significant irAEs, particularly when used in conjunction with anti–CTLA-4 antibodies.
“However, the current approach that overcomes tumor evasion of host immunity also disables the immune tolerance checkpoint, leading to significant irAEs, particularly when used in conjunction with anti–CTLA-4 antibodies.”
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“Bailey, Liu, et al. in this issue demonstrate that targeting HIF-1α abrogated PD-L1–mediated immune evasion by suppressing PD-L1 expression on malignant and myeloid regulatory cells, causing tumor rejection.”
From Cross-talk between HIF and PD-1/PD-L1 pathways in carcinogenesis and therapy (2022) · cites this paper as [24]
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“Bailey, Liu, et al. confirmed these results (24).”
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“Importantly, HIF-1α inhibition potentiated immunotherapeutic effects of anti–CTLA-4 therapy in experimental models.”
From Cross-talk between HIF and PD-1/PD-L1 pathways in carcinogenesis and therapy (2022) · cites this paper as [24]
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“HIF-1α inhibition in vivo downregulated PD-1 expression, upregulated cytolytic effector molecules granzyme B and perforin, and decreased apoptosis in TILs in the tumor microenvironment.”
From Cross-talk between HIF and PD-1/PD-L1 pathways in carcinogenesis and therapy (2022) · cites this paper as [24]
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“Promotion of immune tolerance by differential regulation of PD-L1 in normal and cancer tissues is an important approach for safer and more successful immunotherapy (24).”
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“The authors also reported an interesting observation; although HIF-1α inhibition blocked PD-L1 expression at the tumor site, it induced PD-L1 in normal tissues.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bailey, C. M., Liu, Y., Liu, M., Du, X., Devenport, M., Zheng, P., Liu, Y., & Wang, Y.
- Affiliations
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- Corresponding author
- Liu, Yang
- Wang, Yin
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Published
- 2022-05-02
- Volume
- 132
- Issue
- 9
- ISSN
- 0021-9738 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-8238
- PMC
- PMC9057613
- OpenAlex
- W4214881895
- Semantic Scholar
- 61d954ba1fe3c4cba513f816261e83f90b00fc87
- Cited by
- 151
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2026: 34 · 2025: 45 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 10
- FWCI
- 12.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Clinical Investigation (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (CA171972, CA183030, CA219150, CA227671)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Keywords
- HIF-1α, PD-L1, immune evasion, tumor microenvironment, immune-related adverse events, CTLA-4, PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint, echinomycin, interferon-gamma, tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, cancer immunotherapy
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Echinomycin, Immune Tolerance, Neoplasms, Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating, Mice, Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit, Immune Evasion, Tumor Microenvironment, B7-H1 Antigen
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