Hong Chang, Mingxia Li, Linlin Zhang, Meng Li, Swee Hoe Ong, Zhiwei Zhang, Jie Zheng, Xiang Xu, Yu Zhang, Jing Wang, Xingjie Liu, Kairui Li, Yao Luo, Haiyun Wang, Zhichao Miao, Xi Chen, Jie Zha, Yong Yu
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Abstract
Purpose: Immunotherapy using PD-L1 blockade is effective in only a small group of cancer patients, and resistance is common. This emphasizes the importance of understanding the mechanisms of cancer immune evasion and resistance.
Methods: A genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 screen identified Bap1 as a regulator of PD-L1 expression. To measure tumor size and survival, tumor cells were subcutaneously injected into both syngeneic WT mice and immunocompromised mice. The phenotypic and transcriptional characteristics of Bap1-deleted tumors were examined using flow cytometry, RNA-seq, and CUT&Tag-seq analysis.
Results: We found that loss of histone deubiquitinase Bap1 in cancer cells activates a cDC1-CD8+ T cell-dependent anti-tumor immunity. The absence of Bap1 leads to an increase in genes associated with anti-tumor immune response and a decrease in genes related to immune evasion. As a result, the tumor microenvironment becomes inflamed, with more cDC1 cells and effector CD8+ T cells, but fewer neutrophils and regulatory T cells. We also found that the elimination of Bap1-deleted tumors depends on the tumor MHCI molecule and Fas-mediated CD8+ T cell cytotoxicity. Our analysis of TCGA data further supports these findings, showing a reverse correlation between BAP1 expression and mRNA signatures of activated DCs and T-cell cytotoxicity in various human cancers.
Conclusion: The histone deubiquitinase Bap1 could be used as a biomarker for tumor stratification and as a potential therapeutic target for cancer immunotherapies.
Cellular OncologyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-Cancer Research
CiteScore
10.40
自引率
1.50%
发文量
0
审稿时长
16 weeks
期刊介绍:
The Official Journal of the International Society for Cellular Oncology
Focuses on translational research
Addresses the conversion of cell biology to clinical applications
Cellular Oncology publishes scientific contributions from various biomedical and clinical disciplines involved in basic and translational cancer research on the cell and tissue level, technical and bioinformatics developments in this area, and clinical applications. This includes a variety of fields like genome technology, micro-arrays and other high-throughput techniques, genomic instability, SNP, DNA methylation, signaling pathways, DNA organization, (sub)microscopic imaging, proteomics, bioinformatics, functional effects of genomics, drug design and development, molecular diagnostics and targeted cancer therapies, genotype-phenotype interactions.
A major goal is to translate the latest developments in these fields from the research laboratory into routine patient management. To this end Cellular Oncology forms a platform of scientific information exchange between molecular biologists and geneticists, technical developers, pathologists, (medical) oncologists and other clinicians involved in the management of cancer patients.
In vitro studies are preferentially supported by validations in tumor tissue with clinicopathological associations.