Suppression of tumor antigen presentation during aneuploid tumor evolution contributes to immune evasion
Anti-tumor immune responses impede tumor formation, and cancers have evolved many mechanisms of immune evasion. Confirming earlier findings, we show that human tumors with high chromosomal instability (CIN+) are significantly less immunogenic, as judged by tumor lymphocyte infiltration, compared to...
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| author | Reshmi Tripathi Vishnu Modur Laura Senovilla Guido Kroemer Kakajan Komurov |
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| description | Anti-tumor immune responses impede tumor formation, and cancers have evolved many mechanisms of immune evasion. Confirming earlier findings, we show that human tumors with high chromosomal instability (CIN+) are significantly less immunogenic, as judged by tumor lymphocyte infiltration, compared to those with more stable genomes (CIN-). This finding is paradoxical, as genomic instability is expected to evoke an innate immune response. Importantly, CIN+ tumors and cell lines exhibited suppressed expression of proteins involved in MHC class I antigen presentation at least partly due to DNA hypermethylation of the corresponding genes. Using a mouse model of the in vivo evolution of aneuploid tumors, we found that the induction of chromosomal instability in tumor cells is highly immunogenic due to the activation of the STING/TBK1 pathway and consequent increased interferon signaling and antigen presentation. However, tumors evolving under immune pressure suppress the STING/TBK1 and antigen presentation pathways and evade anti-tumor immune responses. In contrast, CIN+ tumors that develop under low immune pressure in both humans and mice retain efficient MHC class I antigen presentation and immunogenicity. Altogether, this study identifies an important mechanism of immune evasion in chromosomally unstable tumors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7fe11b337a544d26929c9ad9367dffb92022-12-21T17:00:57ZengTaylor & Francis GroupOncoImmunology2162-402X2019-11-0181110.1080/2162402X.2019.16573741657374Suppression of tumor antigen presentation during aneuploid tumor evolution contributes to immune evasionReshmi Tripathi0Vishnu Modur1Laura Senovilla2Guido Kroemer3Kakajan Komurov4Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterUniversité Paris Descartes, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, Université Sorbonne Université, INSERM U1138, Centre de Recherche des CordeliersUniversité Paris Descartes, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, Université Sorbonne Université, INSERM U1138, Centre de Recherche des CordeliersCincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterAnti-tumor immune responses impede tumor formation, and cancers have evolved many mechanisms of immune evasion. Confirming earlier findings, we show that human tumors with high chromosomal instability (CIN+) are significantly less immunogenic, as judged by tumor lymphocyte infiltration, compared to those with more stable genomes (CIN-). This finding is paradoxical, as genomic instability is expected to evoke an innate immune response. Importantly, CIN+ tumors and cell lines exhibited suppressed expression of proteins involved in MHC class I antigen presentation at least partly due to DNA hypermethylation of the corresponding genes. Using a mouse model of the in vivo evolution of aneuploid tumors, we found that the induction of chromosomal instability in tumor cells is highly immunogenic due to the activation of the STING/TBK1 pathway and consequent increased interferon signaling and antigen presentation. However, tumors evolving under immune pressure suppress the STING/TBK1 and antigen presentation pathways and evade anti-tumor immune responses. In contrast, CIN+ tumors that develop under low immune pressure in both humans and mice retain efficient MHC class I antigen presentation and immunogenicity. Altogether, this study identifies an important mechanism of immune evasion in chromosomally unstable tumors.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2162402X.2019.1657374chromosomal instabilitycancer aneuploidyimmunoselectiontcga |
| spellingShingle | Reshmi Tripathi Vishnu Modur Laura Senovilla Guido Kroemer Kakajan Komurov Suppression of tumor antigen presentation during aneuploid tumor evolution contributes to immune evasion OncoImmunology chromosomal instability cancer aneuploidy immunoselection tcga |
| title | Suppression of tumor antigen presentation during aneuploid tumor evolution contributes to immune evasion |
| title_full | Suppression of tumor antigen presentation during aneuploid tumor evolution contributes to immune evasion |
| title_fullStr | Suppression of tumor antigen presentation during aneuploid tumor evolution contributes to immune evasion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Suppression of tumor antigen presentation during aneuploid tumor evolution contributes to immune evasion |
| title_short | Suppression of tumor antigen presentation during aneuploid tumor evolution contributes to immune evasion |
| title_sort | suppression of tumor antigen presentation during aneuploid tumor evolution contributes to immune evasion |
| topic | chromosomal instability cancer aneuploidy immunoselection tcga |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2162402X.2019.1657374 |
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