Radiation alters PD-L1/NKG2D ligand levels in lung cancer cells and leads to immune escape from NK cell cytotoxicity via IL-6-MEK/Erk signaling pathway
| Autor: | Peter C. Keng, Ying Tsai, Soo Ok Lee, Yuhchyau Chen, Li Jun Xu, Yongbing Chen, Li Yang, Ming Jing Shen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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PD-L1
0301 basic medicine MAPK/ERK pathway Cell Biology NKG2D 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Radioresistance medicine Cytotoxic T cell Lung cancer Cytotoxicity NK cytotoxicity medicine.disease 3. Good health 030104 developmental biology medicine.anatomical_structure Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Immunology Cancer research biology.protein MEK/Erk Research Paper radioresistant lung cancer |
| Zdroj: | Oncotarget |
| ISSN: | 1949-2553 |
| DOI: | 10.18632/oncotarget.19193 |
| Popis: | // Ming Jing Shen 1, 2 , Li Jun Xu 1, 2 , Li Yang 1 , Ying Tsai 1 , Peter C. Keng 1 , Yongbing Chen 2 , Soo Ok Lee 1 and Yuhchyau Chen 1 1 Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA 2 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215004, P.R. China Correspondence to: Yuhchyau Chen, email: Yuhchyau_Chen@urmc.rochester.edu Soo Ok Lee, email: Soook_Lee@urmc.rochester.edu Keywords: PD-L1, NKG2D, NK cytotoxicity, MEK/Erk, radioresistant lung cancer Received: April 12, 2017 Accepted: June 28, 2017 Published: July 12, 2017 ABSTRACT We investigated whether radiation influences the susceptibility of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells to NK cell mediated cytotoxicity. We found radiation treatment increased expression of programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1), but decreased NK group 2, member D (NKG2D) ligand expressions in A549 and H157 NSCLC cells. Both types of changes would have protected tumor cells from the cytotoxic action of NK cells. Consistently, we detected similar alteration in these molecules in radioresistant A549R26-1 and H157R24-1 subline cells. Higher PD-L1 level was also observed in tumors of A549R26-1 cell-derived xenografts than tumors of parental A549 (A549P) cell-derived xenografts. Accordingly, we found radioresistant cells were more resistant to the cytotoxic action of NK cells than parental cells, and such resistance was decreased when neutralizing antibody (Ab) of PD-L1 was added to the radioresistant cell/NK cell co-cultures. In mechanism studies, we found that IL-6-MEK/Erk signaling contributed most significantly to the up-regulation of PD-L1/down-regulation of NKG2D ligands in radioresistant cells. The addition of the MEK/Erk inhibitor increased the susceptibility of A549R26-1 and H157R24-1 cells to NK-cell cytotoxicity while no significant effect was observed in parental cells. Moreover, we detected enhanced NK-cell cytotoxicity to radioresistant cells when PD-L1 Ab and MEK/Erk inhibitor were added together to co-cultures of tumor/NK cells compared to when PD-L1 Ab was used alone. We suggest that combined use of PD-L1 Ab and MEK/Erk inhibitor may offer better therapeutic benefits than PD-L1 Ab alone to treat NSCLC patients who are receiving radiotherapy or who are at the radioresistant stage. |
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