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Abstract Title:

Chemotherapy induces enrichment of CD47/CD73/PDL1immune evasive triple-negative breast cancer cells.

Abstract Source:

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Feb 6 ;115(6):E1239-E1248. Epub 2018 Jan 24. PMID: 29367423

Abstract Author(s):

Debangshu Samanta, Youngrok Park, Xuhao Ni, Huili Li, Cynthia A Zahnow, Edward Gabrielson, Fan Pan, Gregg L Semenza

Article Affiliation:

Debangshu Samanta

Abstract:

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is treated with cytotoxic chemotherapy and is often characterized by early relapse and metastasis. To form a secondary (recurrent and/or metastatic) tumor, a breast cancer cell must evade the innate and adaptive immune systems. CD47 enables cancer cells to evade killing by macrophages, whereas CD73 and PDL1 mediate independent mechanisms of evasion of cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Here, we report that treatment of human or murine TNBC cells with carboplatin, doxorubicin, gemcitabine, or paclitaxel induces the coordinate transcriptional induction of CD47, CD73, and PDL1 mRNA and protein expression, leading to a marked increase in the percentage of CD47CD73PDL1breast cancer cells. Genetic or pharmacological inhibition of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) blocked chemotherapy-induced enrichment of CD47CD73PDL1TNBC cells, which were also enriched in the absence of chemotherapy by incubation under hypoxic conditions, leading to T cell anergy or death. Treatment of mice with cytotoxic chemotherapy markedly increased the intratumoral ratio of regulatory/effector T cells, an effect that was abrogated by HIF inhibition. Our results delineate an HIF-dependent transcriptional mechanism contributing to TNBC progression and suggest that combining chemotherapy with an HIF inhibitor may prevent countertherapeutic induction of proteins that mediate evasion of innate and adaptive antitumor immunity.

Study Type : In Vitro Study

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