scholarly journals Classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in the Era of Immune Checkpoint Inhibition

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1596 ◽  
Author(s):  
De Re ◽  
Caggiari ◽  
Repetto ◽  
Mussolin ◽  
Mascarin

: The ligation of programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) with programmed cell death ligand PD-L activates the immune checkpoint leading to T-cell dysfunction, exhaustion, and tolerance, especially in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) where the PD-L/ Janus kinase (Jak) signaling was frequently found altered. Anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibodies can reverse this immune checkpoint, releasing the brake on T-cell responses. The characterization of the mechanisms regulating both the expression of PD-1 and PD-L and their function(s) in HL is ongoing. We provide in this review the recent findings focused on this aim with special attention on the major research topics, such as adverse events and resistance to PD-1–PD-L1 inhibitor treatment, together with a part about angiogenesis, extracellular vesicles, and microbiome in HL pathogenesis.

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Liu ◽  
Zhihao Zhao ◽  
Nasha Qiu ◽  
Quan Zhou ◽  
Guowei Wang ◽  
...  

AbstractAnti-programmed cell death-1 (PD-1)/programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) antibodies are currently used in the clinic to interupt the PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint, which reverses T cell dysfunction/exhaustion and shows success in treating cancer. Here, we report a histone demethylase inhibitor, 5-carboxy-8-hydroxyquinoline (IOX1), which inhibits tumour histone demethylase Jumonji domain-containing 1A (JMJD1A) and thus downregulates its downstream β-catenin and subsequent PD-L1, providing an antibody-independent paradigm interrupting the PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint. Synergistically, IOX1 inhibits cancer cells’ P-glycoproteins (P-gp) through the JMJD1A/β-catenin/P-gp pathway and greatly enhances doxorubicin (DOX)-induced immune-stimulatory immunogenic cell death. As a result, the IOX1 and DOX combination greatly promotes T cell infiltration and activity and significantly reduces tumour immunosuppressive factors. Their liposomal combination reduces the growth of various murine tumours, including subcutaneous, orthotopic, and lung metastasis tumours, and offers a long-term immunological memory function against tumour rechallenging. This work provides a small molecule-based potent cancer chemo-immunotherapy.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (29) ◽  
pp. eaat7061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bei Wang ◽  
Wen Zhang ◽  
Vladimir Jankovic ◽  
Jacquelynn Golubov ◽  
Patrick Poon ◽  
...  

Most patients with cancer do not develop durable antitumor responses after programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) or programmed cell death ligand 1(PD-L1) checkpoint inhibition monotherapy because of an ephemeral reversal of T cell dysfunction and failure to promote long-lasting immunological T cell memory. Activating costimulatory pathways to induce stronger T cell activation may improve the efficacy of checkpoint inhibition and lead to durable antitumor responses. We performed single-cell RNA sequencing of more than 2000 tumor-infiltrating CD8+T cells in mice receiving both PD-1 and GITR (glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor–related protein) antibodies and found that this combination synergistically enhanced the effector function of expanded CD8+T cells by restoring the balance of key homeostatic regulators CD226 and T cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains (TIGIT), leading to a robust survival benefit. Combination therapy decreased CD8+T cell dysfunction and induced a highly proliferative precursor effector memory T cell phenotype in a CD226-dependent manner. PD-1 inhibition rescued CD226 activity by preventing PD-1–Src homology region 2 (SHP2) dephosphophorylation of the CD226 intracellular domain, whereas GITR agonism decreased TIGIT expression. Unmasking the molecular pathways driving durable antitumor responses will be essential to the development of rational approaches to optimizing cancer immunotherapy.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emi Hifumi ◽  
Hiroaki Taguchi ◽  
Tamami Nonaka ◽  
Takunori Harada ◽  
Taizo Uda

Programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) is an immune checkpoint regulating T-cell function. A catalytic antibody light chain, H34, could enzymatically degrade the PD-1 molecule. In addition, it inhibited the binding of PD-1 with PD-L1.


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