Abstract 2876: Inflammation of the tumor microenvironment is regulated by myeloid derived suppressor cell and macrophage crosstalk.

Author(s):  
Daniel W. Beury ◽  
Katherine H. Parker ◽  
Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg
Author(s):  
Xiantu Ou ◽  
Weibiao Lv

It is universally acknowledged that a large number of immune cells, as well as inflammatory factors, regulatory factors and metabolites, accumulate in the tumor microenvironment to jointly promote tumor escape, development and metastasis. Hypoxia is one of the characteristics in tumor microenvironment and is a common phenomenon in all solid tumors. In tumor hypoxia response, there is a key regulator called HIF-1a, which is a key transcriptional regulatory protein that regulates many critical genes. In this paper, the effects of hypoxia on glucose metabolism of tumor cells, myeloid-derived suppressor cells and T cells in tumor microenvironment were reviewed, and the interaction among the three was also described.


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e14016-e14016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Diego Rolfo ◽  
Philippe Georges Aftimos ◽  
Jean-Rene Pallandre ◽  
Virginia Morello ◽  
Adeline Bouard ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 2314-2328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuan-xia Zhang ◽  
Shu-biao Ye ◽  
Jian-jiao Ni ◽  
Ting-ting Cai ◽  
Yi-na Liu ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 212 (12) ◽  
pp. 2077-2094 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantinos P. Zambirinis ◽  
Elliot Levie ◽  
Susanna Nguy ◽  
Antonina Avanzi ◽  
Rocky Barilla ◽  
...  

Modulation of Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling can have protective or protumorigenic effects on oncogenesis depending on the cancer subtype and on specific inflammatory elements within the tumor milieu. We found that TLR9 is widely expressed early during the course of pancreatic transformation and that TLR9 ligands are ubiquitous within the tumor microenvironment. TLR9 ligation markedly accelerates oncogenesis, whereas TLR9 deletion is protective. We show that TLR9 activation has distinct effects on the epithelial, inflammatory, and fibrogenic cellular subsets in pancreatic carcinoma and plays a central role in cross talk between these compartments. Specifically, TLR9 activation can induce proinflammatory signaling in transformed epithelial cells, but does not elicit oncogene expression or cancer cell proliferation. Conversely, TLR9 ligation induces pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) to become fibrogenic and secrete chemokines that promote epithelial cell proliferation. TLR9-activated PSCs mediate their protumorigenic effects on the epithelial compartment via CCL11. Additionally, TLR9 has immune-suppressive effects in the tumor microenvironment (TME) via induction of regulatory T cell recruitment and myeloid-derived suppressor cell proliferation. Collectively, our work shows that TLR9 has protumorigenic effects in pancreatic carcinoma which are distinct from its influence in extrapancreatic malignancies and from the mechanistic effects of other TLRs on pancreatic oncogenesis.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Defne Bayik ◽  
Cynthia F. Bartels ◽  
Katreya Lovrenert ◽  
Dionysios Watson ◽  
Duo Zhang ◽  
...  

Increased myeloid-derived suppressor cell (MDSC) frequency is associated with worse outcomes and poor therapeutic response in glioblastoma (GBM). Monocytic (m) MDSCs represent the predominant subset in the GBM microenvironment. However, the molecular basis of mMDSC enrichment in the tumor microenvironment compared to granulocytic (g) MDSCs has yet to be determined. Here, we report that mMDSCs and gMDSCs display differences in their tumor-accelerating ability, with mMDSCs driving tumor growth in GBM models. Epigenetic assessments indicate enhanced gene accessibility for cell adhesion programs in mMDSCs and higher cell-surface integrin expression in mouse and human mMDSCs. Integrin b1 blockage abrogated the tumor-promoting phenotype of mMDSCs and altered the immune profile in the tumor microenvironment. These findings suggest that integrin b1 expression underlies the enrichment of mMDSCs in tumors and represents a putative immunotherapy target to attenuate myeloid cell-driven immune suppression in GBM.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 2091
Author(s):  
Yu-Hung Lee ◽  
Ching-Fang Yu ◽  
Ying-Chieh Yang ◽  
Ji-Hong Hong ◽  
Chi-Shiun Chiang

The low overall survival rate of patients with pancreatic cancer has driven research to seek a new therapeutic protocol. Radiotherapy (RT) is frequently an option in the neoadjuvant or palliative settings for pancreatic cancer treatment. This study explored the effect of RT protocols on the tumor microenvironment (TME) and their consequent impact on anti-programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) therapy. Using a murine orthotopic pancreatic tumor model, UN-KC-6141, RT-disturbed TME was examined by immunohistochemical staining. The results showed that ablative RT is more effective than fractionated RT at recruiting T cells. On the other hand, fractionated RT induces more myeloid-derived suppressor cell infiltration than ablative RT. The RT-disturbed TME presents a higher perfusion rate per vessel. The increase in vessel perfusion is associated with a higher amount of anti-PD-L1 antibody being delivered to the tumor. Animal survival is increased by anti-PD-L1 therapy after ablative RT, with 67% of treated animals surviving more than 30 days after tumor inoculation compared to a median survival time of 16.5 days for the control group. Splenocytes isolated from surviving animals were specifically cytotoxic for UN-KC-6141 cells. We conclude that the ablative RT-induced TME is more suited than conventional RT-induced TME to combination therapy with immune checkpoint blockade.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 117955492110355
Author(s):  
Tianhang Li ◽  
Tianyao Liu ◽  
Wenjie Zhu ◽  
Shangxun Xie ◽  
Zihan Zhao ◽  
...  

Immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB) demonstrated inspiring effect and great promise in anti-cancer therapy. However, many obstacles, such as drug resistance and difficulty in patient selection, limited the efficacy of ICB therapy and awaited to be overcome. By timely identification and intervention of the key immune-suppressive promotors in the tumor microenvironment (TME), we may better understand the mechanisms of cancer immune-escape and use novel strategies to enhance the therapeutic effect of ICB. Myeloid-derived suppressor cell (MDSC) is recognized as a major immune suppressor in the TME. In this review, we summarized the roles MDSC played in the cancer context, focusing on its negative biologic functions in ICB therapy, discussed the strategies targeted on MDSC to optimize the diagnosis and therapy process of ICB and improve the efficacy of ICB therapy against malignancies.


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