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Radiotherapy transiently reduces the sensitivity of cancer cells to lymphocyte cytotoxicity.


ABSTRACT: The impact of radiotherapy on the interaction between immune cells and cancer cells is important not least because radiotherapy can be used alongside immunotherapy as a cancer treatment. Unexpectedly, we found that X-ray irradiation of cancer cells induced significant resistance to natural killer (NK) cell killing. This was true across a wide variety of cancer-cell types as well as for antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity. Resistance appeared 72 h postirradiation and persisted for 2 wk. Resistance could also occur independently of radiotherapy through pharmacologically induced cell-cycle arrest. Crucially, multiple steps in NK-cell engagement, synapse assembly, and activation were unaffected by target cell irradiation. Instead, radiotherapy caused profound resistance to perforin-induced calcium flux and lysis. Resistance also occurred to a structurally similar bacterial toxin, streptolysin O. Radiotherapy did not affect the binding of pore-forming proteins at the cell surface or membrane repair. Rather, irradiation instigated a defect in functional pore formation, consistent with phosphatidylserine-mediated perforin inhibition. In vivo, radiotherapy also led to a significant reduction in NK cell-mediated clearance of cancer cells. Radiotherapy-induced resistance to perforin also constrained chimeric antigen receptor T-cell cytotoxicity. Together, these data establish a treatment-induced resistance to lymphocyte cytotoxicity that is important to consider in the design of radiotherapy-immunotherapy protocols.

SUBMITTER: Tuomela K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8785960 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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