Publication Date:
2014-01-31
Description:
Recent clinical trials showed that targeting of inhibitory receptors on T cells induces durable responses in a subset of cancer patients, despite advanced disease. However, the regulatory switches controlling T-cell function in immunosuppressive tumours are not well understood. Here we show that such inhibitory mechanisms can be systematically discovered in the tumour microenvironment. We devised an in vivo pooled short hairpin RNA (shRNA) screen in which shRNAs targeting negative regulators became highly enriched in murine tumours by releasing a block on T-cell proliferation upon tumour antigen recognition. Such shRNAs were identified by deep sequencing of the shRNA cassette from T cells infiltrating tumour or control tissues. One of the target genes was Ppp2r2d, a regulatory subunit of the PP2A phosphatase family. In tumours, Ppp2r2d knockdown inhibited T-cell apoptosis and enhanced T-cell proliferation as well as cytokine production. Key regulators of immune function can therefore be discovered in relevant tissue microenvironments.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4052214/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4052214/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhou, Penghui -- Shaffer, Donald R -- Alvarez Arias, Diana A -- Nakazaki, Yukoh -- Pos, Wouter -- Torres, Alexis J -- Cremasco, Viviana -- Dougan, Stephanie K -- Cowley, Glenn S -- Elpek, Kutlu -- Brogdon, Jennifer -- Lamb, John -- Turley, Shannon J -- Ploegh, Hidde L -- Root, David E -- Love, J Christopher -- Dranoff, Glenn -- Hacohen, Nir -- Cantor, Harvey -- Wucherpfennig, Kai W -- 1R01CA173750/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- DP3 DK097681/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- P01 AI045757/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA014051/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30-CA14051/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA173750/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- T32 AI007386/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32 AI07386/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 Feb 6;506(7486):52-7. doi: 10.1038/nature12988. Epub 2014 Jan 29.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2]. ; 1] Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] [3] Jounce Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. ; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. ; Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. ; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. ; 1] Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Jounce Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. ; Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. ; Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California 92121, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24476824" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antigens, Neoplasm/immunology
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Apoptosis/immunology
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CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
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CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology/immunology/secretion
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Cell Proliferation
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Cytokines/immunology/secretion
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Female
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Gene Knockdown Techniques
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High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
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*Immunotherapy/methods
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Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating/cytology/immunology/metabolism/secretion
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Melanoma, Experimental/immunology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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*Molecular Targeted Therapy
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Protein Phosphatase 2/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism
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RNA, Small Interfering/genetics
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Reproducibility of Results
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Tumor Microenvironment/*immunology
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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