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The Novel Immune Checkpoint GPR56 Is Expressed on Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes and Selectively Upregulated upon TCR Signaling

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CANCERS
卷 14, 期 13, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cancers14133164

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cancer immunotherapy; tumor-infiltrated lymphocytes (TIL); GPR56; immune checkpoint

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  1. Dutch Cancer Society [RUG2015-7887]
  2. European Union [813871]
  3. Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [813871] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)

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This article investigates the role of the GPR56 immune checkpoint in tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in epithelial ovarian cancer. The expression of GPR56 differs between cancer and healthy cells, and ectopic expression of GPR56 reduces T cell migration.
Simple Summary Despite the clinical efficacy of so-called immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in various cancers, some cancer types, including epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), do not effectively respond to current therapeutics. Thus, the identification of new immune checkpoints that regulate T cell immunity remains of great interest. One as yet largely uninvestigated checkpoint of potential interest is the G protein-coupled receptor 56 (GPR56), which belongs to the adhesion GPCR family. We identified that GPR56 is expressed on tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and investigated its role as a potential immune checkpoint within the context of cancer. Based on our data, GPR56 indeed appears to function as an immune checkpoint in TILs and may thus provide a novel immunotherapeutic target for the reactivation of tumor-infiltrating and tumor-reactive lymphocytes. High levels of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in the tumor microenvironment (TME) are associated with a survival benefit in various cancer types and the targeted (re)activation of TILs is an attractive therapeutic anti-cancer approach that yields curative responses. However, current T cell targeting strategies directed at known immune checkpoints have not increased objective response rates for all cancer types, including for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). For this reason, the identification of new immune checkpoints that regulate T cell immunity remains of great interest. One yet largely uninvestigated checkpoint of potential interest is the G protein-coupled receptor 56 (GPR56), which belongs to the adhesion GPCR family. GPR56 was originally reported to function in cerebral cortical development and in anti-depressant response, but also in cancer. Recently, GPR56 was identified as an inhibitory receptor expressed on human NK cells that by cis-interaction with the tetraspanin CD81 attenuated the cytotoxic activity of NK cells. This NK cell checkpoint could be blocked by an GPR56 antibody, leading to increased cytotoxicity. Interestingly, GPR56 expression has also been reported on cytokine producing memory CD8 T lymphocytes and may thus represent a T cell checkpoint as well. Here, GPR56 mRNA expression was characterized in the context of TILs, with GPR56 expression being detected predominantly in tumor infiltrating CD8 T cells with a cytotoxic and (pre-)exhausted phenotype. In accordance with this mRNA profile, TILs from ovarian cancer patients expressed GPR56 primarily within the effector memory and central memory T cell subsets. On T cells from healthy donors the expression was limited to effector memory and terminally differentiated T cells. Notably, GPR56 expression further increased on TILs upon T cell receptor (TCR)-mediated stimulation in co-cultures with cancer cells, whereas GPR56 expression on healthy primary human T cells did not. Further, the ectopic expression of GPR56 significantly reduced the migration of GPR56-positive T cells. Taken together, GPR56 is a potential immune-checkpoint in EOC found on (pre-)exhausted CD8 TILs that may regulate migratory behavior.

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