Ge Weiyu, Yue Ming, Lin Ruirong, Zhou Tianhao, Xu Haiyan, Wang Yu, Mao Tiebo, Li Shumin, Wu Xiuqi, Zhang Xiaofei, Wang Yongchao, Ma Jingyu, Wang Yanling, Xue Shengbai, Shentu Daiyuan, Cui Jiujie, Wang Liwei
State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Department of Oncology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127, China.
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncology, Clinical Oncology School of Fujian Medical University, Fujian Cancer Hospital, Fujian, Fuzhou, 350014, China.
Cancer Lett. 2023 Apr 1;558:216095. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2023.216095. Epub 2023 Feb 14.
Our previous research defined a novel metabolic cancer associated fibroblasts subset (meCAFs) enriched in loose-type pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and related to CD8 T cells accumulation. Consistently, the abundance of meCAFs was associated with poor prognosis but better immunotherapy responses in PDAC patients. However, the metabolic characteristic of meCAFs and its cross-talk with CD8 T cells remain to be elucidated. In this study, we identified PLA2G2A as a marker of meCAFs. In particular, the abundance of PLA2G2A meCAFs was positively related to the accumulation of total CD8 T cells and negatively correlated with clinical outcomes of PDAC patients and infiltration of intratumoral CD8 T cells. We demonstrated that PLA2G2A meCAFs substantially attenuated the antitumor ability of tumor infiltrating CD8 T cells and facilitated tumor immune escape in PDAC. Mechanistically, PLA2G2A regulated the function of CD8 T cells as a pivotal soluble mediator via MAPK/Erk and NF-κB signaling pathways. In conclusion, our study identified the unrecognized role of PLA2G2A meCAFs in promoting tumor immune escape by impeding the antitumor immune function of CD8 T cells, and strongly suggested PLA2G2A as a promising biomarker and therapeutic target for immunotherapy in PDAC.
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