Proteomics of immune cells from liver tumors reveals immunotherapy targets.

Canale, Fernando P; Neumann, Julia; von Renesse, Janusz; Loggi, Elisabetta; Pecoraro, Matteo; Vogel, Ian; Zoppi, Giada; Antonini, Gaia; Wolf, Tobias; Jin, Wenjie; Zheng, Xiaoqin; La Barba, Giuliano; Birgin, Emrullah; Forkel, Marianne; Nilsson, Tobias; Marone, Romina; Mueller, Henrik; Pelletier, Nadege; Jeker, Lukas T; Civenni, Gianluca; ... (2023). Proteomics of immune cells from liver tumors reveals immunotherapy targets. Cell genomics, 3(6), p. 100331. Elsevier 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100331

[img]
Preview
Text
luo_2023_oi_230631_1687536361.37972.pdf - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons: Attribution (CC-BY).

Download (1MB) | Preview

Elucidating the mechanisms by which immune cells become dysfunctional in tumors is critical to developing next-generation immunotherapies. We profiled proteomes of cancer tissue as well as monocyte/macrophages, CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, and NK cells isolated from tumors, liver, and blood of 48 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. We found that tumor macrophages induce the sphingosine-1-phospate-degrading enzyme SGPL1, which dampened their inflammatory phenotype and anti-tumor function in vivo. We further discovered that the signaling scaffold protein AFAP1L2, typically only found in activated NK cells, is also upregulated in chronically stimulated CD8+ T cells in tumors. Ablation of AFAP1L2 in CD8+ T cells increased their viability upon repeated stimulation and enhanced their anti-tumor activity synergistically with PD-L1 blockade in mouse models. Our data reveal new targets for immunotherapy and provide a resource on immune cell proteomes in liver cancer.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Dermatology, Urology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Osteoporosis (DURN) > Clinic of Dermatology

UniBE Contributor:

Schlapbach, Christoph

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

2666-979X

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

03 Jul 2023 09:52

Last Modified:

16 Jul 2023 02:26

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100331

PubMed ID:

37388918

Uncontrolled Keywords:

CRISPR in mouse T cells HCC NK cells T cells cancer immunotherapy liver cancer macrophages mass spectrometry-based proteomics profiles of tumor-infiltrating immune cells proteomes

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/184294

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/184294

Actions (login required)

Edit item Edit item
Provide Feedback