Selective multi-kinase inhibition sensitizes mesenchymal pancreatic cancer to immune checkpoint blockade by remodeling the tumor microenvironment.
Journal
Nature cancer
ISSN: 2662-1347
Titre abrégé: Nat Cancer
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101761119
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 2022
03 2022
Historique:
received:
05
12
2020
accepted:
13
12
2021
pubmed:
6
2
2022
medline:
5
4
2022
entrez:
5
2
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
KRAS-mutant pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is highly immunosuppressive and resistant to targeted and immunotherapies. Among the different PDAC subtypes, basal-like mesenchymal PDAC, which is driven by allelic imbalance, increased gene dosage and subsequent high expression levels of oncogenic KRAS, shows the most aggressive phenotype and strongest therapy resistance. In the present study, we performed a systematic high-throughput combination drug screen and identified a synergistic interaction between the MEK inhibitor trametinib and the multi-kinase inhibitor nintedanib, which targets KRAS-directed oncogenic signaling in mesenchymal PDAC. This combination treatment induces cell-cycle arrest and cell death, and initiates a context-dependent remodeling of the immunosuppressive cancer cell secretome. Using a combination of single-cell RNA-sequencing, CRISPR screens and immunophenotyping, we show that this combination therapy promotes intratumor infiltration of cytotoxic and effector T cells, which sensitizes mesenchymal PDAC to PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibition. Overall, our results open new avenues to target this aggressive and therapy-refractory mesenchymal PDAC subtype.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35122074
doi: 10.1038/s43018-021-00326-1
pii: 10.1038/s43018-021-00326-1
pmc: PMC7612546
mid: EMS140566
doi:
Substances chimiques
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
318-336Subventions
Organisme : European Research Council
ID : 648521
Pays : International
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.
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