Journal
CANCERS
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cancers12020305
Keywords
multiple myeloma; macrophages; checkpoint inhibitors; 3D tissue culture model
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- Vasculox Inc.
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Cancer Institute of the NIH [U54CA199092]
- Spencer T. and AnnW. Olin Fellowship forWomen in Graduate Study at theWashington University in St. Louis
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the NIH [TL1TR002344]
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Multiple myeloma (MM) remains to be incurable despite recent therapeutic advances. CD47, an immune checkpoint known as the don't eat me signal, is highly expressed on the surface of various cancers, allowing cancer cells to send inhibitory signals to macrophages and impede phagocytosis and immune response. In this study, we hypothesized that blocking the don't eat me signaling using an anti-CD47 monoclonal antibody will induce killing of MM cells. We report that CD47 expression was directly correlated with stage of the disease, from normal to MGUS to MM. Moreover, MM cells had remarkably higher CD47 expression than other cell populations in the bone marrow. These findings indicate that CD47 is specifically expressed on MM and can be used as a potential therapeutic target. Further, blocking of CD47 using an anti-CD47 antibody induced immediate activation of macrophages, which resulted in induction of phagocytosis and killing of MM cells in the 3D-tissue engineered bone marrow model, as early as 4 hours. These results suggest that macrophage checkpoint immunotherapy by blocking the CD47 don't eat me signal is a novel and promising strategy for the treatment of MM, providing a basis for additional studies to validate these effects in vivo and in patients.
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