HSF1 Inhibits Antitumor Immune Activity in Breast Cancer by Suppressing CCL5 to Block CD8+ T-cell Recruitment

©2023 The Authors; Published by the American Association for Cancer Research..

Heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) is a stress-responsive transcription factor that promotes cancer cell malignancy. To provide a better understanding of the biological processes regulated by HSF1, here we developed an HSF1 activity signature (HAS) and found that it was negatively associated with antitumor immune cells in breast tumors. Knockdown of HSF1 decreased breast tumor size and caused an influx of several antitumor immune cells, most notably CD8+ T cells. Depletion of CD8+ T cells rescued the reduction in growth of HSF1-deficient tumors, suggesting HSF1 prevents CD8+ T-cell influx to avoid immune-mediated tumor killing. HSF1 suppressed expression of CCL5, a chemokine for CD8+ T cells, and upregulation of CCL5 upon HSF1 loss significantly contributed to the recruitment of CD8+ T cells. These findings indicate that HSF1 suppresses antitumor immune activity by reducing CCL5 to limit CD8+ T-cell homing to breast tumors and prevent immune-mediated destruction, which has implications for the lack of success of immune modulatory therapies in breast cancer.

SIGNIFICANCE: The stress-responsive transcription factor HSF1 reduces CD8+ T-cell infiltration in breast tumors to prevent immune-mediated killing, indicating that cellular stress responses affect tumor-immune interactions and that targeting HSF1 could improve immunotherapies.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:84

Enthalten in:

Cancer research - 84(2024), 2 vom: 16. Jan., Seite 276-290

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jacobs, Curteisha [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Sakhi [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Wen-Cheng [VerfasserIn]
Ray, Haimanti [VerfasserIn]
Wang, John [VerfasserIn]
Hockaden, Natasha [VerfasserIn]
Sandusky, George [VerfasserIn]
Nephew, Kenneth P [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Sha [VerfasserIn]
Carpenter, Richard L [VerfasserIn]

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CCL5 protein, human
Chemokine CCL5
DNA-Binding Proteins
Heat Shock Transcription Factors
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Transcription Factors

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Date Completed 17.01.2024

Date Revised 10.02.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-0902

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363822232