Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore.
Shanghai Immune Therapy Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Science. 2024 Jan 12;383(6679):eadf6493. doi: 10.1126/science.adf6493.
Neutrophils are increasingly recognized as key players in the tumor immune response and are associated with poor clinical outcomes. Despite recent advances characterizing the diversity of neutrophil states in cancer, common trajectories and mechanisms governing the ontogeny and relationship between these neutrophil states remain undefined. Here, we demonstrate that immature and mature neutrophils that enter tumors undergo irreversible epigenetic, transcriptional, and proteomic modifications to converge into a distinct, terminally differentiated dcTRAIL-R1 state. Reprogrammed dcTRAIL-R1 neutrophils predominantly localize to a glycolytic and hypoxic niche at the tumor core and exert pro-angiogenic function that favors tumor growth. We found similar trajectories in neutrophils across multiple tumor types and in humans, suggesting that targeting this program may provide a means of enhancing certain cancer immunotherapies.
中性粒细胞越来越被认为是肿瘤免疫反应的关键参与者,并与不良的临床结果相关。尽管最近在描述癌症中中性粒细胞状态的多样性方面取得了进展,但指导这些中性粒细胞状态的发生和关系的常见轨迹和机制仍未得到明确界定。在这里,我们证明进入肿瘤的未成熟和成熟中性粒细胞会经历不可逆的表观遗传、转录和蛋白质组学修饰,从而汇聚成一种独特的、终末分化的 dcTRAIL-R1 状态。重编程的 dcTRAIL-R1 中性粒细胞主要定位于肿瘤核心的糖酵解和缺氧小生境,并发挥促进血管生成的功能,有利于肿瘤生长。我们在多种肿瘤类型和人类中发现了中性粒细胞的类似轨迹,这表明靶向该程序可能为增强某些癌症免疫疗法提供一种手段。
Science. 2024-1-12
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