Neutrophil content predicts lymphocyte depletion and anti-PD1 treatment failure in NSCLC

Autor: A. McGarry Houghton, Melissa Shipley, Jill McKay-Fleisch, Afshin Mashadi-Hossein, Gavin Meredith, Julia Kargl, John A. Zebala, Robert H. Pierce, Grace H. Y. Yang, Jeffrey C. Thompson, Dean Y. Maeda, Huajia Zhang, Steven M. Albelda, Xiaodong Zhu, Christina S. Baik, Hamid Bolouri, Mary W. Redman, Travis J. Friesen
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Male
Cell type
Myeloid
Lung Neoplasms
Neutrophils
medicine.medical_treatment
T cell
Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor
Datasets as Topic
CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes
Receptors
Interleukin-8B

Flow cytometry
Receptors
Interleukin-8A

Cohort Studies
03 medical and health sciences
Leukocyte Count
Mice
0302 clinical medicine
Antineoplastic Agents
Immunological

Lymphocytes
Tumor-Infiltrating

Carcinoma
Non-Small-Cell Lung

medicine
Animals
Humans
Treatment Failure
Aged
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Gene Expression Profiling
General Medicine
Immunotherapy
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Flow Cytometry
Immunohistochemistry
Disease Models
Animal

030104 developmental biology
medicine.anatomical_structure
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Cancer research
Female
business
CD8
Progressive disease
Research Article
Zdroj: JCI insight. 4(24)
ISSN: 2379-3708
Popis: Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment has recently become a first-line therapy for many non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Unfortunately, most NSCLC patients are refractory to ICI monotherapy, and initial attempts to address this issue with secondary therapeutics have proven unsuccessful. To identify entities precluding CD8(+) T cell accumulation in this process, we performed unbiased analyses on flow cytometry, gene expression, and multiplexed immunohistochemical data from a NSCLC patient cohort. The results revealed the presence of a myeloid-rich subgroup, which was devoid of CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells. Of all myeloid cell types assessed, neutrophils were the most highly associated with the myeloid phenotype. Additionally, the ratio of CD8(+) T cells to neutrophils (CD8/PMN) within the tumor mass optimally distinguished between active and myeloid cases. This ratio was also capable of showing the separation of patients responsive to ICI therapy from those with stable or progressive disease in 2 independent cohorts. Tumor-bearing mice treated with a combination of anti-PD1 and SX-682 (CXCR1/2 inhibitor) displayed relocation of lymphocytes from the tumor periphery into a malignant tumor, which was associated with induction of IFN-γ–responsive genes. These results suggest that neutrophil antagonism may represent a viable secondary therapeutic strategy to enhance ICI treatment outcomes.
Databáze: OpenAIRE