内在 β-连环蛋白信号抑制结直肠癌中的 CD8 T 细胞浸润。
Intrinsic β-catenin signaling suppresses CD8 T-cell infiltration in colorectal cancer.
机构信息
Department of Oncology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200123, China.
Department of Oncology, Shanghai PutuoLiqun Hospital, Putuo District, Shanghai 200000, China.
出版信息
Biomed Pharmacother. 2019 Jul;115:108921. doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2019.108921. Epub 2019 May 8.
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide and shows resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors which have been demonstrated to be effective in many other types of cancers. Pre-existing T-cell response in tumor microenvironment often determines the therapeutic benefit of immune checkpoint blockade. Tumor-infiltrating CD8 T-cells are considered as the major effector immune cells in antitumor immunity. In this study, we aimed to identify the intrinsic oncogenic pathway that contributes to a reduction of CD8 T-cell infiltration in colorectal cancer. To achieve this, human colon adenocarcinoma samples derived from The Cancer Genome Altas (TCGA) were stratified into low T-cell-inflamed and high T-cell-inflamed groups based on the expression of T-cell signature genes. Gene set enrichment analysis of revealed a close correlation between activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway and absence of T-cell infiltration. By immunohistochemical analysis of 155 colorectal cancer tissues, we found that tumors with high β-catenin expression showed a significant reduction of CD8 T-cell infiltration. Mechanistically, β-catenin can regulate CCL4 expression to recruit CD103 dendritic cells to enable CD8 T cell activation. Collectively, our data indicate that oncogenic β-catenin signal may mediate colorectal cancer resistance to immunotherapies, pointing to the combined PD-1-immunotherapy with targeting β-catenin in colorectal cancer.
结直肠癌是全球第三大常见癌症,对免疫检查点抑制剂具有耐药性,而这些抑制剂在许多其他类型的癌症中已被证明是有效的。肿瘤微环境中预先存在的 T 细胞反应通常决定了免疫检查点阻断的治疗获益。肿瘤浸润 CD8 T 细胞被认为是抗肿瘤免疫中的主要效应免疫细胞。在这项研究中,我们旨在确定导致结直肠癌中 CD8 T 细胞浸润减少的内在致癌途径。为此,根据 T 细胞特征基因的表达,我们将源自癌症基因组图谱(TCGA)的人类结肠腺癌样本分为低 T 细胞浸润和高 T 细胞浸润组。基因集富集分析显示,Wnt/β-catenin 信号通路的激活与 T 细胞浸润缺失密切相关。通过对 155 例结直肠癌组织的免疫组织化学分析,我们发现高β-catenin 表达的肿瘤 CD8 T 细胞浸润显著减少。从机制上讲,β-catenin 可以调节 CCL4 的表达,招募 CD103 树突状细胞,从而激活 CD8 T 细胞。总之,我们的数据表明致癌β-catenin 信号可能介导结直肠癌对免疫疗法的耐药性,提示在结直肠癌中联合 PD-1 免疫疗法与靶向β-catenin。