Title |
Treg-Dominant Tumor Microenvironment Is Responsible for Hyperprogressive Disease after PD-1 Blockade Therapy
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Published in |
Cancer Immunology Research, October 2022
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DOI | 10.1158/2326-6066.cir-22-0041 |
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Authors |
Hiroaki Wakiyama, Takuya Kato, Aki Furusawa, Ryuhei Okada, Fuyuki Inagaki, Hideyuki Furumoto, Hiroshi Fukushima, Shuhei Okuyama, Peter L. Choyke, Hisataka Kobayashi |
Abstract |
Programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) blockade therapy can result in dramatic responses in some cancer patients. However, about 15% of patients receiving PD-1 blockade therapy experience rapid tumor progression, a phenomenon termed "hyperprogressive disease" (HPD). The mechanism(s) underlying HPD has been difficult to uncover because HPD is challenging to reproduce in animal models. Near-infrared photoimmunotherapy (NIR-PIT) is a method by which specific cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) can be selectively depleted without disturbing other cells in the TME. In this study, we partially depleted CD8+ T cells with NIR-PIT by targeting the CD8β antigen thereby temporarily changing the balance of T-cell subsets in two different syngeneic tumor models. PD-1 blockade in these models led to rapid tumor progression compared to controls. CD3ε+CD8α+/CD3ε+CD4+FoxP3+ (Teff/Treg) ratios in the PD-1 and NIR-PIT groups were lower than in controls. Moreover, in a bilateral tumor model, low dose CD8β-targeted NIR-PIT with anti-PD-1 blockade showed rapid tumor progression only in the tumor exposed to NIR light. In this experiment CD8β-targeted NIR-PIT in the exposed tumor reduced local CD8+ T cells resulting in a regulatory T cell (Treg)-dominant TME. In conclusion, this reports an animal model to simulate the Treg-dominant TME, and the data generated using the model suggest that HPD after PD-1 blockade therapy can be attributed, at least in part, to imbalances between effector T cells and Tregs in the TME. |
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