Tristan Tay, Gayathri Bommakanti, Elizabeth Jaensch, Aparna Gorthi, Iswarya Karapa Reddy, Yan Hu, Ruochi Zhang, Aatman S Doshi, Sin Lih Tan, Verena Brucklacher-Waldert, Laura Prickett, James Kurasawa, Michael Glen Overstreet, Steven Criscione, Jason Daniel Buenrostro, Deanna A Mele
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Abstract
In cancer, chronic antigen stimulation drives effector T cells to exhaustion, limiting the efficacy of T cell therapies. Recent studies have demonstrated that epigenetic rewiring governs the transition of T cells from effector to exhausted states and makes a subset of exhausted T cells non-responsive to PD1 checkpoint blockade. Here, we describe an antigen-specific assay for T cell exhaustion that generates T cells phenotypically and transcriptionally similar to those found in human tumors. We perform a screen of human epigenetic regulators, identifying IKZF1 as a driver of T cell exhaustion. We determine that the IKZF1 degrader iberdomide prevents exhaustion by blocking chromatin remodeling at T cell effector enhancers and preserving the binding of AP-1, NF-κB, and NFAT. Thus, our study uncovers a role for IKZF1 as a driver of T cell exhaustion through epigenetic modulation, providing a rationale for the use of iberdomide in solid tumors to prevent T cell exhaustion.
在癌症中,慢性抗原刺激会促使效应 T 细胞衰竭,从而限制 T 细胞疗法的疗效。最近的研究表明,表观遗传学的重新布线控制着T细胞从效应T细胞向衰竭状态的转变,并使衰竭T细胞的一个亚群对PD1检查点阻断无反应。在这里,我们描述了一种T细胞衰竭的抗原特异性检测方法,它能产生与人类肿瘤中的T细胞表型和转录相似的T细胞。我们对人类表观遗传调节因子进行了筛选,发现 IKZF1 是 T 细胞衰竭的驱动因子。我们发现,IKZF1 降解剂 iberdomide 能阻止 T 细胞效应增强子的染色质重塑,并保持 AP-1、NF-κB 和 NFAT 的结合,从而防止衰竭。因此,我们的研究发现了IKZF1通过表观遗传学调控驱动T细胞衰竭的作用,为在实体瘤中使用iberdomide预防T细胞衰竭提供了理论依据。
Cell Reports MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all)
CiteScore
15.00
自引率
1.40%
发文量
231
审稿时长
40 days
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