对调节癌症免疫监视的人类功能变异进行大规模平行检测。

Massively parallel interrogation of human functional variants modulating cancer immunosurveillance.

作者信息

Liu Ying, Liu Yongshuo, Niu Xuran, Chen Ang, Li Yizhou, Yu Ying, Mo Binrui, Liu Zhiheng, Xu Tao, Cheng Jie, Wu Zeguang, Wei Wensheng

机构信息

Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University Genome Editing Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Modulation Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.

Changping Laboratory, Beijing, China.

出版信息

Signal Transduct Target Ther. 2025 Mar 19;10(1):88. doi: 10.1038/s41392-025-02171-5.

Abstract

Anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has revolutionized clinical cancer treatment, while abnormal PD-L1 or HLA-I expression in patients can significantly impact the therapeutic efficacy. Somatic mutations in cancer cells that modulate these critical regulators are closely associated with tumor progression and ICB response. However, a systematic interpretation of cancer immune-related mutations is still lacking. Here, we harnessed the ABEmax system to establish a large-scale sgRNA library encompassing approximately 820,000 sgRNAs that target all feasible serine/threonine/tyrosine residues across the human genome, which systematically unveiled thousands of novel mutations that decrease or augment PD-L1 or HLA-I expression. Beyond residues associated with phosphorylation events, our screens also identified functional mutations that affect mRNA or protein stability, DNA binding capacity, protein-protein interactions, and enzymatic catalytic activity, leading to either gene inactivation or activation. Notably, we uncovered certain mutations that concurrently modulate PD-L1 and HLA-I expression, represented by the clinically relevant mutation SETD2_Y1666. We demonstrated that this mutation induces consistent phenotypic effects across multiple cancer cell lines and enhances the efficacy of immunotherapy in different tumor models. Our findings provide an unprecedented resource of functional residues that regulate cancer immunosurveillance, offering valuable guidance for clinical diagnosis, ICB therapy, and the development of innovative drugs for cancer treatment.

摘要

抗程序性死亡蛋白1(PD-1)/程序性死亡配体1(PD-L1)免疫检查点阻断(ICB)疗法彻底改变了临床癌症治疗方式,然而患者体内异常的PD-L1或人类白细胞抗原I类分子(HLA-I)表达会显著影响治疗效果。癌细胞中调节这些关键调节因子的体细胞突变与肿瘤进展和ICB反应密切相关。然而,目前仍缺乏对癌症免疫相关突变的系统性解读。在此,我们利用ABEmax系统建立了一个大规模的单导向RNA(sgRNA)文库,该文库包含约82万个靶向人类基因组中所有可行的丝氨酸/苏氨酸/酪氨酸残基的sgRNA,系统地揭示了数千个可降低或增加PD-L1或HLA-I表达的新突变。除了与磷酸化事件相关的残基外,我们的筛选还鉴定了影响信使核糖核酸(mRNA)或蛋白质稳定性、DNA结合能力、蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用和酶催化活性的功能性突变,从而导致基因失活或激活。值得注意的是,我们发现了某些同时调节PD-L1和HLA-I表达的突变,以临床相关突变SETD2_Y1666为代表。我们证明,这种突变在多种癌细胞系中诱导一致的表型效应,并增强了不同肿瘤模型中的免疫治疗效果。我们的研究结果提供了前所未有的调节癌症免疫监视的功能性残基资源,为临床诊断、ICB治疗以及癌症治疗创新药物的开发提供了有价值的指导。

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