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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH
卷 2021, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.1155/2021/6613247
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81872016]
- Chongqing National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [cstc2019jcyjjqX0003]
- Science Innovation Capacity Promotion Project of Army Medical University [2019XQY03]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFC1302200]
The study revealed that neutrophil levels in tumor tissues of gastric cancer patients were significantly higher than in non-tumor tissues, positively associated with tumor progression but negatively correlated with patient survival. Most intratumoral neutrophils exhibited an activated phenotype and expressed the immunosuppressive molecule B7-H4. The GM-CSF-B7-H4 pathway plays a regulating role in gastric cancer.
Neutrophils are prominent components of gastric cancer (GC) tumors and exhibit distinct phenotypes in GC environment. However, the phenotype, regulation, and clinical relevance of neutrophils in human GC are presently unknown. Here, immunohistochemistry, real-time PCR, and flow cytometry analyses were performed to examine levels and phenotype of neutrophils in samples from 41 patients with GC, and also isolated, stimulated, and/or cultured neutrophils for in vitro regulation assays. Finally, we performed Kaplan-Meier plots for overall survival by using the log-rank test to evaluate the clinical relevance of neutrophils and their subsets. In our study, neutrophils in tumor tissues were significantly higher than those in nontumor tissues and were positively associated with tumor progression but negatively correlated with GC patient survival. Most intratumoral neutrophils showed an activated CD54(+) phenotype and expressed high-level immunosuppressive molecule B7-H4. Tumor tissue culture supernatants from GC patients induced neutrophils to express CD54 and B7-H4 in both timedependent and dose-dependent manners. Locally enriched CD54(+) neutrophils and B7-H4(+) neutrophils positively correlated with increased granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) detection ex vivo, and in vitro GM-CSF induced the expression of CD54 and B7-H4 on neutrophils in a time-dependent and dose-dependent manner. Moreover, GC tumorderived GM-CSF activated neutrophils and induced neutrophil B7-H4 expression via Janus kinase (JAK)-signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) signaling pathway activation. Furthermore, higher intratumoral B7-H4(+) neutrophil percentage/number was found in GC patients with advanced tumor node metastasis stage and reduced overall survival following surgery. Our results illuminate a novel regulating mechanism of B7-H4 expression on tumor-activated neutrophils in GC, suggesting that functional inhibition of these novel GM-CSF-B7-H4 pathways may be a suitable therapeutic strategy to treat the immune tolerance feature of GC.
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