Targeting the lipid kinase PIKfyve upregulates surface expression of MHC class I to augment cancer immunotherapy

Despite the remarkable clinical success of immunotherapies in a subset of cancer patients, many fail to respond to treatment and exhibit resistance. Here, we found that genetic or pharmacologic inhibition of the lipid kinase PIKfyve, a regulator of autophagic flux and lysosomal biogenesis, upregulated surface expression of major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) in cancer cells via impairing autophagic flux, resulting in enhanced cancer cell killing mediated by CD8+ T cells. Genetic depletion or pharmacologic inhibition of PIKfyve elevated tumor-specific MHC-I surface expression, increased intratumoral functional CD8+ T cells, and slowed tumor progression in multiple syngeneic mouse models. Importantly, enhanced antitumor responses by Pikfyve-depletion were CD8+ T cell- and MHC-I-dependent, as CD8+ T cell depletion or B2m knockout rescued tumor growth. Furthermore, PIKfyve inhibition improved response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB), adoptive cell therapy, and a therapeutic vaccine. High expression of PIKFYVE was also predictive of poor response to ICB and prognostic of poor survival in ICB-treated cohorts. Collectively, our findings show that targeting PIKfyve enhances immunotherapies by elevating surface expression of MHC-I in cancer cells, and PIKfyve inhibitors have potential as agents to increase immunotherapy response in cancer patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:120

Enthalten in:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 120(2023), 49 vom: 05. Dez., Seite e2314416120

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bao, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Qiao, Yuanyuan [VerfasserIn]
Choi, Jae Eun [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yuping [VerfasserIn]
Mannan, Rahul [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Caleb [VerfasserIn]
He, Tongchen [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Jiali [VerfasserIn]
Gondal, Mahnoor [VerfasserIn]
Cruz, Gabriel [VerfasserIn]
Grove, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Xuhong [VerfasserIn]
Su, Fengyun [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Kryczek, Ilona [VerfasserIn]
Cieslik, Marcin [VerfasserIn]
Green, Michael D [VerfasserIn]
Zou, Weiping [VerfasserIn]
Chinnaiyan, Arul M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cancer
Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
Immunotherapy
Journal Article
Lipids
MHC class I
PIKfyve

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Date Completed 29.11.2023

Date Revised 02.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1073/pnas.2314416120

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36502743X