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Targeting the Atf7ip-Setdb1 complex augments anti-tumor immunity by boosting tumor immunogenicity

ABSTRACT: Despite substantial progress that has been made in understanding how tumors escape immune surveillance, measures to counteract tumor immune evasion have been limited. Suppression of tumor antigen expression is a common adaptive mechanism that cancers use to evade detection and destruction by the immune system. Epigenetic modifications play a critical role in in various aspects of immune invasion, including the regulation of tumor antigen expression. To identify novel epigenetic regulators of tumor antigen expression, we established a transplantable syngeneic tumor model of immune escape with silenced antigen expression and used this system as a platform for a CRISPR-Cas9 suppressor screen targeting genes encoding epigenetic modifiers. We found that genetic disruption of the chromatin modifiers Atf7ip or its interacting partner Setdb1 in tumor cells restored tumor antigen expression, resulting in augmented tumor immunogenicity concomitant with elevated endogenous retroviral antigens (ERVs), mRNA intron retention. ERVs disinhibition was associated with a robust type I interferon response and increased T cell infiltration, leading to rejection of cells lacking intact Atf7ip or Setdb1. ATF7IP or SETDB1 expression inversely correlated with antigen processing and presentation pathways, interferon signaling, and T cell infiltration and cytotoxicity in human cancers. Our results provide a rationale for targeting Atf7ip or Setdb1 in cancer immunotherapy.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE179574 | GEO | 2021/07/23

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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