Journal
JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12967-022-03646-7
Keywords
Microwave ablation; Immune checkpoint inhibitors; LAG3; Combinational immunotherapy
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81972869, 82172689, 81902386]
- Key R&D Project of Jiangsu Province [BE2022721, BE2022719]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20211065]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2021M700543, 2021M700547]
- High-Level Talents Project of Jiangsu Commission of Health [LGY2020034]
- Applied Basic Research Foundation of Changzhou [CJ20190094, CJ20210089, CJ20210021]
- Changzhou International Cooperation Project [CZ2021005]
- open fund of state key laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanjing University, China [KF202203]
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This study demonstrates that the combination therapy of LAG3 blockade and microwave ablation (MWA) is a unique treatment strategy for certain solid tumors, which can alter the tumor microenvironment and extend survival.
Background The immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) combined with other therapeutic strategies have shown exciting results in various malignancies, and ICIs have now become the gold standard for current cancer treatment. In several preclinical and clinical investigations, ablation coupled with immunotherapy has proved to be quite effective. Our previous studies have shown that ablation coupled with ICI is a potential anti-cancer regimen for colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRLM). Furthermore, we have reported that following microwave ablation (MWA), the expression of LAG3 is up-regulated in tumor microenvironment (TME), indicating that LAG3 is implicated in the regulation of immunosuppressive immune response, and combination therapy of MWA and LAG3 blockade can serve as a promising therapeutic strategy against cancer. Methods The expression of LAG3 was investigated in this study utilizing a preclinical mouse model treated with MWA. Moreover, we monitored the tumor development and survival in mice to assess the anti-cancer effects of MWA alone or in combination with LAG3 blockade. Flow cytometry was also used to phenotype the tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and CD8(+) T cell effector molecules. We finally analyzed the single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data of infiltrating CD45(+) immune cells in the tumors from the MWA alone and MWA combined with LAG3 blockade groups. Results After MWA, the expression of LAG3 was up-regulated on sub-populations of TILs, and introducing LAG3 blockade to MWA postponed tumor development and extended survival in the MC38 tumor model. Flow cytometry and scRNA-seq revealed that LAG3 blockade in combination with MWA markedly boosted the proliferation and the function of CD8(+) TILs, leading to altered myeloid cells in the TME. Conclusion Combination therapy of LAG3 blockade and MWA was a unique therapeutic regimen for some solid tumors, and such combination therapy might reprogram the TME to an anti-tumor manner.
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