Combination treatment with radiotherapy and a novel oxidative phosphorylation inhibitor overcomes PD-1 resistance and enhances antitumor immunity

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BACKGROUND: Despite outstanding responses to anti-PD-1 agents in a subset of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, approximately 80% of patients fail to have prolonged favorable response. Recent studies show that tumor cell oxidative metabolism is a barrier to PD-1 immunotherapy and radiotherapy could overcome PD-1 resistance, so it is urgent to determine if combination treatment with radiotherapy and a novel oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) inhibitor (IACS-010759) is an effective strategy against PD-1 resistance in NSCLC.

METHODS: The antitumor effect of this combinational treatment was evaluated in vitro and in vivo. For in vivo experiments, we treated 129Sv/Ev mice with anti-PD1-sensitive and anti-PD1-resistant 344SQ NSCLC adenocarcinoma xenografts with oral IACS-010759 combined with radiotherapy (XRT). In vitro experiments included PCR, seahorse bioenergetic profiling, flow cytometry phenotyping, and clonogenic survival assay.

RESULTS: In the current study, we found that our PD-1-resistant model utilized OXPHOS to a significantly greater extent than the PD-1-sensitive model and XRT increased OXPHOS in vitro and in vivo. Thus, we explored the effect of the novel OXPHOS inhibitor IACS-010759 on PD-1-resistant NSCLC in an effort to overcome XRT-induced immunosuppression and maximize response to PD-1. Additionally, combined XRT and IACS-010759 promoted antitumor effects in the PD-1-resistant model, but not in the sensitive model. After elucidation of the most optimal dose/fractionation scheme of XRT with IACS-010759, the combinatorial therapy with this regimen did not increase the abscopal antitumor effect, although IACS-010549 did not decrease CD45+, CD4+, and CD8+ immune cells. Finally, triple therapy with IACS-010759, XRT, and anti-PD-1 promoted abscopal responses and prolonged survival time.

CONCLUSION: OXPHOS inhibition as part of a combinatorial regimen with XRT is a promising strategy to address PD-1-resistant NSCLC, and this combination is being tested clinically.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: J Immunother Cancer. 2021 Mar;9(3):. - PMID 33707312

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Journal for immunotherapy of cancer - 8(2020), 1 vom: 16. Juni

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Dawei [VerfasserIn]
Barsoumian, Hampartsoum B [VerfasserIn]
Fischer, Grant [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Liangpeng [VerfasserIn]
Verma, Vivek [VerfasserIn]
Younes, Ahmed I [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Yun [VerfasserIn]
Masropour, Fatemeh [VerfasserIn]
Klein, Katherine [VerfasserIn]
Vellano, Christopher [VerfasserIn]
Marszalek, Joseph [VerfasserIn]
Davies, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Cortez, Maria Angelica [VerfasserIn]
Welsh, James [VerfasserIn]

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IACS-010759
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Immunology
Journal Article
Oxadiazoles
Pdcd1 protein, mouse
Piperidines
Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor
Radiotherapy
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tumor

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Date Completed 21.05.2021

Date Revised 29.03.2024

published: Print

CommentIn: J Immunother Cancer. 2021 Mar;9(3):. - PMID 33707312

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/jitc-2019-000289

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NLM31159445X