Patricia Ho, Johannes C Melms, Meri Rogava, Chris J Frangieh, Joanna Poźniak, Shivem B Shah, Zachary Walsh, Oleksandr Kyrysyuk, Amit Dipak Amin, Lindsay Caprio, Benjamin T Fullerton, Rajesh Kumar Soni, Casey R Ager, Jana Biermann, Yiping Wang, Mohsen Khosravi-Maharlooei, Giorgia Zanetti, Michael Mu, Hijab Fatima, Emily K Moore, Neil Vasan, Samuel F Bakhoum, Steven L Reiner, Chantale Bernatchez, Megan Sykes, Emily M Mace, Kai W Wucherpfennig, Dirk Schadendorf, Oliver Bechter, Parin Shah, Gary K Schwartz, Jean-Christophe Marine, Benjamin Izar
The cell-autonomous balance of immune-inhibitory and -stimulatory signals is a critical process in cancer immune evasion. Using patient-derived co-cultures, humanized mouse models, and single-cell RNA-sequencing of patient melanomas biopsied before and on immune checkpoint blockade, we find that intact cancer cell-intrinsic expression of CD58 and ligation to CD2 is required for anti-tumor immunity and is predictive of treatment response. Defects in this axis promote immune evasion through diminished T cell activation, impaired intratumoral T cell infiltration and proliferation, and concurrently increased PD-L1 protein stabilization...
July 10, 2023: Cancer Cell