Immunogenic Chemotherapy Sensitizes Tumors to Checkpoint Blockade Therapy.

ABSTRACT: Checkpoint blockade immunotherapies can be extraordinarily effective, but might benefit only the minority of patients whose tumors are pre-infiltrated by T cells. Here, using lung adenocarcinoma mouse models, including genetic models, we show that autochthonous tumors that lacked T cell infiltration and resisted current treatment options could be successfully sensitized to host antitumor T cell immunity when appropriately selected immunogenic drugs (e.g., oxaliplatin combined with cyclophosphamide for treatment against tumors expressing oncogenic Kras and lacking Trp53) were used. The antitumor response was triggered by direct drug actions on tumor cells, relied on innate immune sensing through toll-like receptor 4 signaling, and ultimately depended on CD8(+) T cell antitumor immunity. Fur

SUBMITTER: Pfirschke C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4758865 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature