2022
Association of PD-1/PD-L1 Co-location with Immunotherapy Outcomes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Gavrielatou N, Liu Y, Vathiotis I, Zugazagoitia J, Aung TN, Shafi S, Fernandez A, Schalper K, Psyrri A, Rimm DL. Association of PD-1/PD-L1 Co-location with Immunotherapy Outcomes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research 2022, 28: clincanres.2649.2021. PMID: 34686497, PMCID: PMC8776595, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-21-2649.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-small cell lung cancerBest overall responsePD-L1 tumor proportion scorePD-1/PD-L1Immune checkpoint inhibitorsProgression-free survivalTumor proportion scoreCell lung cancerPD-L1Immunotherapy outcomesCheckpoint inhibitorsOverall survivalQuantitative immunofluorescenceLung cancerProportion scoreAdvanced non-small cell lung cancerLocal T cell responsesCell death protein 1Immunotherapy-treated patientsMultiplexed quantitative immunofluorescencePD-1 expressionPD-L1 expressionDeath protein 1Selection of patientsT cell responses
2019
Suppressing miR-21 activity in tumor-associated macrophages promotes an antitumor immune response
Sahraei M, Chaube B, Liu Y, Sun J, Kaplan A, Price NL, Ding W, Oyaghire S, García-Milian R, Mehta S, Reshetnyak YK, Bahal R, Fiorina P, Glazer PM, Rimm DL, Fernández-Hernando C, Suárez Y. Suppressing miR-21 activity in tumor-associated macrophages promotes an antitumor immune response. Journal Of Clinical Investigation 2019, 129: 5518-5536. PMID: 31710308, PMCID: PMC6877327, DOI: 10.1172/jci127125.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTumor-associated macrophagesMiR-21 expressionTumor growthMiR-21Immune responseCytotoxic T cell responsesC motif chemokine 10Antitumor immune responseT cell responsesAntitumoral immune responseTumor immune infiltratesInduction of cytokinesPotential therapeutic implicationsMiR-21 inhibitionStages of carcinogenesisAngiostatic phenotypeTumor cell deathIL-12Immune infiltratesTherapeutic implicationsSolid tumorsTumor neovascularizationTumor progressionTumor microenvironmentTumor pathogenesisSiglec-15 as an immune suppressor and potential target for normalization cancer immunotherapy
Wang J, Sun J, Liu LN, Flies DB, Nie X, Toki M, Zhang J, Song C, Zarr M, Zhou X, Han X, Archer KA, O’Neill T, Herbst RS, Boto AN, Sanmamed MF, Langermann S, Rimm DL, Chen L. Siglec-15 as an immune suppressor and potential target for normalization cancer immunotherapy. Nature Medicine 2019, 25: 656-666. PMID: 30833750, PMCID: PMC7175920, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0374-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNormalization cancer immunotherapyTumor microenvironmentSiglec-15Antibody blockadeCancer immunotherapyImmune suppressorMyeloid cellsAntigen-specific T cell responsesB7-H1/PDTumor-infiltrating myeloid cellsB7-H1 moleculesAnti-tumor immunityT cell responsesPotential targetImmune evasion mechanismsInhibits tumor growthMacrophage colony-stimulating factorColony-stimulating factorB7-H1Evasion mechanismsMouse modelHuman cancer cellsTumor growthCell responsesGenetic ablation
2017
Objective measurement and clinical significance of IDO1 protein in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer
Carvajal-Hausdorf DE, Mani N, Velcheti V, Schalper KA, Rimm DL. Objective measurement and clinical significance of IDO1 protein in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. Journal For ImmunoTherapy Of Cancer 2017, 5: 81. PMID: 29037255, PMCID: PMC5644103, DOI: 10.1186/s40425-017-0285-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHormone receptor-positive breast cancerReceptor-positive breast cancerIDO1 expressionBreast cancerIndependent negative prognostic markerB cell infiltrationImmune suppressive pathwaysAdvanced solid tumorsTumor-infiltrating lymphocytesT cell responsesClinico-pathological featuresClinico-pathological characteristicsProportional hazards modelNegative prognostic markerDegradation of tryptophanMann-Whitney testFoxp3 levelsIDO1 blockadeIDO1 levelsEffector CD4Durable responsesOverall survivalImmune toleranceMultivariable analysisPrognostic marker