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NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20138-8
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资金
- Jules Bordet Institute
- MICINN [SAF2014-55997-R, SAF201786117-R]
- FEDER funds/European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)-a way to build Europe
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [682935]
- Fundacio La Marato de TV3
- CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya
- AMGEN, Inc.
- National Fund for Research (FNRS)
- Televie
- Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) [17-194]
- Cancer Center Support Grant of the National Institutes of Health [P30CA008748]
- Amgen
- MICINN
- European Research Council (ERC) [682935] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Most breast cancers exhibit low immune infiltration and are unresponsive to immunotherapy. We hypothesized that inhibition of the receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B (RANK) signaling pathway may enhance immune activation. Here we report that loss of RANK signaling in mouse tumor cells increases leukocytes, lymphocytes, and CD8(+) T cells, and reduces macrophage and neutrophil infiltration. CD8(+) T cells mediate the attenuated tumor phenotype observed upon RANK loss, whereas neutrophils, supported by RANK-expressing tumor cells, induce immunosuppression. RANKL inhibition increases the anti-tumor effect of immunotherapies in breast cancer through a tumor cell mediated effect. Comparably, pre-operative single-agent denosumab in premenopausal early-stage breast cancer patients from the Phase-II D-BEYOND clinical trial (NCT01864798) is well tolerated, inhibits RANK pathway and increases tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and CD8(+) T cells. Higher RANK signaling activation in tumors and serum RANKL levels at baseline predict these immune-modulatory effects. No changes in tumor cell proliferation (primary endpoint) or other secondary endpoints are observed. Overall, our preclinical and clinical findings reveal that tumor cells exploit RANK pathway as a mechanism to evade immune surveillance and support the use of RANK pathway inhibitors to prime luminal breast cancer for immunotherapy. Receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B (RANK)/RANK-ligand (RANKL) signaling regulates the tumor-immune crosstalk. Here the authors show that systemic RANKL inhibition promotes CD8+T cell infiltration in patients with early breast cancer and that loss of RANK signaling in tumor cells drives a T cell-dependent anti-tumor response in preclinical models.
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