Targeting macrophage Syk enhances responses to immune checkpoint blockade and radiotherapy in high-risk neuroblastoma: TAM SYK WT/KO Adoptive Transfer Experiment
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Project description:Neuroblastoma (NB) is considered an immunologically cold tumor and is usually less responsive to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are highly infiltrated in NB tumors and promote immune escape and resistance to ICB. Hence therapeutic strategies targeting immunosuppressive TAMs can improve responses to ICB in NB. We recently discovered that spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk) reprograms TAMs toward an immunostimulatory phenotype and enhances T-cell responses in the lung adenocarcinoma model. Here we investigated if Syk is an immune-oncology target in NB and tested whether a novel immunotherapeutic approach utilizing Syk inhibitor together with radiation and ICB could provide a durable antitumor immune response in an MYCN amplified murine model of NB. Myeloid Syk KO mice and syngeneic MYCN-amplified cell lines were used to elucidate the effect of myeloid Syk on the NB tumor microenvironment (TME). In addition, the effect of Syk inhibitor, R788, on anti-tumor immunity alone or combination with anti-PDL1 mAb and radiation was also determined in murine NB models. The underlying mechanism of action of this novel therapeutic combination was also investigated. Herein, we report that Syk is a marker of NB -associated macrophages and plays a crucial role in promoting immunosuppression in the NB TME. We found that the blockade of Syk in NB-bearing mice markedly impairs tumor growth. This effect is facilitated by macrophages that become immunogenic in the absence of Syk, skewing the suppressive TME towards immunostimulation and activating anti-tumor immune responses. Moreover, combining FDA-approved Syk inhibitor, R788 (fostamatinib) along with anti-PDL1 mAb provides a synergistic effect leading to complete tumor regression and durable anti-tumor immunity in mice bearing small tumors (50 mm3) but not larger tumors (250 mm3). However, combining radiation to R788 and anti-PDL1 mAb prolongs the survival of mice bearing large NB9464 tumors.
2023-06-02 | GSE224021 | GEO
Project description:Neuroblastoma (NB) is considered an immunologically cold tumor and is usually less responsive to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are highly infiltrated in NB tumors and promote immune escape and resistance to ICB. Hence therapeutic strategies targeting immunosuppressive TAMs can improve responses to ICB in NB. We recently discovered that spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk) reprograms TAMs toward an immunostimulatory phenotype and enhances T-cell responses in the lung adenocarcinoma model. Here we investigated if Syk is an immune-oncology target in NB and tested whether a novel immunotherapeutic approach utilizing Syk inhibitor together with radiation and ICB could provide a durable antitumor immune response in an MYCN amplified murine model of NB. Myeloid Syk KO mice and syngeneic MYCN-amplified cell lines were used to elucidate the effect of myeloid Syk on the NB tumor microenvironment (TME). In addition, the effect of Syk inhibitor, R788, on anti-tumor immunity alone or combination with anti-PDL1 mAb and radiation was also determined in murine NB models. The underlying mechanism of action of this novel therapeutic combination was also investigated. Herein, we report that Syk is a marker of NB -associated macrophages and plays a crucial role in promoting immunosuppression in the NB TME. We found that the blockade of Syk in NB-bearing mice markedly impairs tumor growth. This effect is facilitated by macrophages that become immunogenic in the absence of Syk, skewing the suppressive TME towards immunostimulation and activating anti-tumor immune responses. Moreover, combining FDA-approved Syk inhibitor, R788 (fostamatinib) along with anti-PDL1 mAb provides a synergistic effect leading to complete tumor regression and durable anti-tumor immunity in mice bearing small tumors (50 mm3) but not larger tumors (250 mm3). However, combining radiation to R788 and anti-PDL1 mAb prolongs the survival of mice bearing large NB9464 tumors.
2023-06-02 | GSE224024 | GEO
Project description:Neuroblastoma (NB) is considered an immunologically cold tumor and is usually less responsive to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are highly infiltrated in NB tumors and promote immune escape and resistance to ICB. Hence therapeutic strategies targeting immunosuppressive TAMs can improve responses to ICB in NB. We recently discovered that spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk) reprograms TAMs toward an immunostimulatory phenotype and enhances T-cell responses in the lung adenocarcinoma model. Here we investigated if Syk is an immune-oncology target in NB and tested whether a novel immunotherapeutic approach utilizing Syk inhibitor together with radiation and ICB could provide a durable antitumor immune response in an MYCN amplified murine model of NB. Myeloid Syk KO mice and syngeneic MYCN-amplified cell lines were used to elucidate the effect of myeloid Syk on the NB tumor microenvironment (TME). In addition, the effect of Syk inhibitor, R788, on anti-tumor immunity alone or combination with anti-PDL1 mAb and radiation was also determined in murine NB models. The underlying mechanism of action of this novel therapeutic combination was also investigated. Herein, we report that Syk is a marker of NB -associated macrophages and plays a crucial role in promoting immunosuppression in the NB TME. We found that the blockade of Syk in NB-bearing mice markedly impairs tumor growth. This effect is facilitated by macrophages that become immunogenic in the absence of Syk, skewing the suppressive TME towards immunostimulation and activating anti-tumor immune responses. Moreover, combining FDA-approved Syk inhibitor, R788 (fostamatinib) along with anti-PDL1 mAb provides a synergistic effect leading to complete tumor regression and durable anti-tumor immunity in mice bearing small tumors (50 mm3) but not larger tumors (250 mm3). However, combining radiation to R788 and anti-PDL1 mAb prolongs the survival of mice bearing large NB9464 tumors.
2023-06-02 | GSE224020 | GEO
Project description:Targeting macrophage Syk enhances responses to immune checkpoint blockade and radiotherapy in high-risk neuroblastoma: TCM Macrophage Experiment
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Project description:Background: Among all gynecologic malignancies, epithelial ovarian cancer has the highest case-to-fatality ratio. Most patients are diagnosed at advanced stages and recurrence is common and accounts for disease-related mortality. Spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) is an emerging cancer-associated kinase upregulated in recurrent tumors and is amenable for inhibition using small compounds that have been studied in clinical trials for autoimmune diseases. Our previous proteomic analysis identified several novel SYK substrates including EGFR and ERBB2. Here, we investigated the cross-talk between these pathways in ovarian carcinomas. Methods: Immunohistochemistry and immunoblotting were utilized to assess SYK and EGFR phosphorylation in ovarian serous carcinomas. Association with survival was determined by Kaplan-Meier analysis and the log-rank test. To study its role in EGFR signaling, SYK activity was modulated using a small molecule inhibitor, a syngeneic knockout, and an active kinase inducible system. We applied RNA-seq to investigate the SYK-regulated EGF-induced transcriptome. Results: Intense immunoreactivity of active pSYK(Y525/526) correlated with poor overall survival in two independent ovarian cancer cohorts. SYK directly phosphorylated EGFR and ERBB2, while knockout of SYK reduces their phosphorylation. Phosphorylation levels of SYK(Y525/526) positively correlated with EGFR(Y1187) and STAT3(Y705). Active SYK reduced sensitivity to the EGFR/ERBB2 inhibitor, lapatinib, and SYK non-phosphorylatable EGFR mutant was more sensitive to paclitaxel. SYK modulated the EGF-induced transcriptome, supporting its involvement in EGFR/ERBB2-regulated transcriptional activity. Conclusions: Our findings suggest an upstream role of SYK in regulating the EGFR/ERBB2 signaling, and provide a biological rationale for targeting SYK in ovarian cancer therapy.
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Project description:Targeting macrophage Syk enhances responses to immune checkpoint blockade and radiotherapy in high-risk neuroblastoma: R788 anti-PD-L1 Radiation Experiment
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Project description:Genetic studies have highlighted microglia as pivotal in orchestrating Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Microglia that adhere to Aβ plaques acquire a transcriptional signature, “diseaseassociated microglia” (DAM), which largely emanates from the TREM2-DAP12 receptor complex that transmits intracellular signals through the protein tyrosine kinase SYK. The human TREM2R47H variant associated with high AD risk fails to activate microglia via SYK. We found that SYK-deficient microglia cannot encase Aβ plaques, accelerating brain pathology and behavioral deficits. SYK deficiency impaired the PI3K-AKT-GSK3β-mTOR pathway, incapacitating anabolic support required for attaining the DAM profile. However, SYK-deficient microglia proliferated and advanced to an Apoe-expressing prodromal stage of DAM; this pathway relied on the adaptor DAP10, which also binds TREM2. Thus, microglial responses to Aβ involve non-redundant SYK- and DAP10-pathways. Systemic administration of an antibody against CLEC7A, a receptor that directly activates SYK, rescued microglia activation in mice expressing the TREM2R47H allele, unveiling new options for AD immunotherapy.
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Project description:The recruitment of monocytes and their differentiation into immunosuppressive cells is associated with the negative outcome of non-conformal radiotherapy (RT). However, non-conformal RT is irrelevant in the clinic, and little is known about the role of monocytes following radiotherapy modes used in patients, such as conformal radiotherapy (CRT). Here, we investigated the acute immune infiltration post-CRT. Contrary to non-conformal RT approaches, we found that CRT induces a rapid and robust recruitment of monocytes to the tumor that minimally differentiate into tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) or dendritic cells (DC), but instead upregulate major histocompatibility complex II (MHCII) and costimulatory molecules. We establish that these large numbers of infiltrating monocytes are responsible for increasing type I interferon in the tumor microenvironment (TME), activation of CD8+ T cells and the reduction in tumor burden. Importantly, we demonstrate that rapid monocyte infiltration to the TME is hindered when RT inadvertently affects healthy tissues. Our results unravel a positive role of monocytes during clinically relevant modes of RT and demonstrate that limiting exposure of healthy tissues to radiation has a positive therapeutic effect on the overall immune response within the tumor.
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