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FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2020.01622
Keywords
colorectal cancer; O-glycosylation; Tn antigen; anti-tumor immunity; tumor growth
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- Amsterdam UMC
- European Union (Marie Curie European Training Network) GlyCoCan project [676421]
- Cancer Center Amsterdam [2016-5-29]
- Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) [VU 2014-6779]
- ERC advanced grant [339977]
- European Research Council (ERC) [339977] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Expression of the tumor-associated glycan Tn antigen (alpha GalNAc-Ser/Thr) has been correlated to poor prognosis and metastasis in multiple cancer types. However, the exact mechanisms exerted by Tn antigen to support tumor growth are still lacking. One emerging hallmark of cancer is evasion of immune destruction. Although tumor cells often exploit the glycosylation machinery to interact with the immune system, the contribution of Tn antigen to an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment has scarcely been studied. Here, we explored how Tn antigen influences the tumor immune cell composition in a colorectal cancer (CRC) mouse model. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock out of theC1galt1c1gene resulted in elevated Tn antigen levels on the cell surface of the CRC cell line MC38 (MC38-Tn(high)). RNA sequencing and subsequent GO term enrichment analysis of our Tn(high)glycovariant not only revealed differences in MAPK signaling and cell migration, but also in antigen processing and presentation as well as in cytotoxic T cell responses. Indeed, MC38-Tn(high)tumors displayed increased tumor growthin vivo, which was correlated with an altered tumor immune cell infiltration, characterized by reduced levels of cytotoxic CD8(+)T cells and enhanced accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells. Interestingly, no systemic differences in T cell subsets were observed. Together, our data demonstrate for the first time that Tn antigen expression in the CRC tumor microenvironment affects the tumor-associated immune cell repertoire.
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