STING agonist diABZI enhances the cytotoxicity of T cell towards cancer cells

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Antigen-specific T cell receptor-engineered T cell (TCR-T) based immunotherapy has proven to be an effective method to combat cancer. In recent years, cross-talk between the innate and adaptive immune systems may be requisite to optimize sustained antigen-specific immunity, and the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) is a promising therapeutic target for cancer immunotherapy. The level of expression or presentation of antigen in tumor cells affects the recognition and killing of tumor cells by TCR-T. This study aimed at investigating the potential of innate immune stimulation of T cells and engineered T cells to enhance immunotherapy for low-expression antigen cancer cells. We systematically investigated the function and mechanism of cross-talk between STING agonist diABZI and adaptive immune systems. We established NY-ESO-1 full knockout Mel526 cells for this research and found that diABZI activated STING media and TCR signaling pathways. In addition, the results of flow cytometry showed that antigens presentation from cancer cells induced by STING agonist diABZI also improved the affinity of TCR-T cells function against tumor cells in vitro and in vivo. Our findings revealed that diABZI enhanced the immunotherapy efficacy of TCR-T by activating STING media and TCR signaling pathways, improving interferon-γ expression, and increasing antigens presentation of tumor cells. This indicates that STING agonist could be used as a strategy to promote TCR-T cancer immunotherapy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Cell death & disease - 15(2024), 4 vom: 13. Apr., Seite 265

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Zhaoduan [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Yunzhuo [VerfasserIn]
Habimana, Jean de Dieu [VerfasserIn]
Ren, Yuefei [VerfasserIn]
Amissah, Obed Boadi [VerfasserIn]
Mukama, Omar [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Siqi [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Xuanyan [VerfasserIn]
Lv, Linshuang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Junyi [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Min [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Zhaoming [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Rongqi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yinchao [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zhiyuan [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Yirong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies
Journal Article
Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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Date Completed 15.04.2024

Date Revised 16.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41419-024-06638-1

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM371043301