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Project description:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) relapse is associated with a poor prognosis. Natural killer (NK) cells therapy induce leukemia remission; however, NK cells were susceptible to be exhausted post infusion. Determination of the mechanism of NK cell exhaustion in AML patients may provide insights for enhancing AML therapy. Here, we investigated NK cell exhaustion in relapsed AML patients post allo-HSCT based on phenotypic, functional, and RNA sequencing analyses. Compared with those from the complete remission and healthy control groups, NK cells from the relapsed group exhibited less maturity, higher inhibitory receptor expression and poorer cytotoxicity. AML cells could induce NK cell exhaustion through inhibition of PI3K-AKT pathway. Activation of PI3K-AKT was effective to increase NK cell cytotoxicity in exhausted NK cells. Excessive activation of the NKG2A/HLA-E axis is responsible for the inhibition of the PI3K-AKT pathway. Anti-HLA-E restored NK cell cytotoxicity against AML by increasing the phosphorylation of AKT in exhausted NK cells and knockout of the klrc1 in NK92 cells increased the phosphorylation of AKT and cytotoxicity against THP-1 cells. Moreover, blocking NKG2A was effective in controlling NK cell exhaustion and promoting cytotoxicity in AML mice. In summary, AML cells induced NK cell exhaustion via excessive activation of NKG2A/HLA-E axis and inhibition on PI3K-AKT pathway. Blocking the NKG2A axis is an effective way to reverse the inhibition of PI3K-AKT signaling on exhausted NK cells.
2025-01-31 | GSE252702 | GEO
Project description:Natural killer (NK) cell-based immunotherapy holds promise for cancer treatment, but its efficacy is still limited, necessitating the development of new strategies. Here, we report an unexpected discovery that venetoclax, the first FDA-approved BCL-2 inhibitor, acts as an immunometabolic modulator to potentiate adoptive NK cell immunotherapy against acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Venetoclax directly activates human NK cells, boosting their cytotoxicity against AML both in vitro and in vivo, independent of BCL-2 inhibition. Venetoclax enhances NK cell binding avidity and lytic granule polarization during immunological synapse (IS) formation.Furthermore, venetoclax promotes mitochondrial respiration and ATP synthesis via the NF-κB pathway, facilitating IS formation and effector function in human NK cells.Our findings establish venetoclax as a multifaceted immunometabolic modulator that enhances NK cell function, providing new insights for augmenting NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity in cancer immunotherapy.
2023-07-31 | GSE237922 | GEO
Project description:Natural killer (NK) cell-based immunotherapy holds promise for cancer treatment, but its efficacy is still limited, necessitating the development of new strategies. Here, we report an unexpected discovery that venetoclax, the first FDA-approved BCL-2 inhibitor, acts as an immunometabolic modulator to potentiate adoptive NK cell immunotherapy against acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Venetoclax directly activates human NK cells, boosting their cytotoxicity against AML both in vitro and in vivo, independent of BCL-2 inhibition. Notably, we identify a distinct CD161low CD218b+ NK cell subpopulation exhibiting the most pronounced proportional increase and transcriptomic changes upon venetoclax treatment.Venetoclax enhances NK cell binding avidity and lytic granule polarization during immunological synapse (IS) formation.Furthermore, venetoclax promotes mitochondrial respiration and ATP synthesis via the NF-κB pathway, facilitating IS formation and effector function in human NK cells.Our findings establish venetoclax as a multifaceted immunometabolic modulator that enhances NK cell function, providing new insights for augmenting NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity in cancer immunotherapy.
2023-07-31 | GSE237923 | GEO
Project description:Primary chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) natural killer (NK) cells show strong cytotoxic efficacy against acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in vivo. However, NK cell-mediated tumor killing is often impaired by tumor-mediated immune cell inactivation. Here, we report a novel strategy to overcome NK cell inhibition caused by the immune checkpoint NKG2A, which interacts with HLA-E expressed on AML blasts. We generated AML-specific CD33-directed CAR (CAR33)-KLRC1ko-NK cells with CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing of the NKG2A-encoding KLRC1 gene. Single-cell multi-omic analyses revealed a higher proportion of activated cells in CAR33-NK- and CAR33-KLRC1ko-NK pools, which were preserved following AML-cell contact. This activated state of the CAR33-KLRC1ko-NK cells has been translated into improved antileukemic activity in vitro and in vivo against AML cell lines and primary blasts. This dual modification of primary NK cells has the potential to bypass the suppressive effect not only of AML but also in a broad range of other cancer identities.
2024-07-16 | GSE221552 | GEO
Project description:Resistance of tumor cells to cell-mediated cytotoxicity remains a drawback in the immunotherapy of cancer and its molecular basis is poorly understood. To investigate the acquisition of tumor resistance to cell-mediated cytotoxicity, resistant variants were selected following long term NK cell selection pressure. We found that these variants are resistant to NK cell-mediated lysis but still sensitive to autologous cytotoxic T lymphocytes or cytotoxic drugs. This resistance seems to be dependent, at least partly, of an alteration of the target cell recognition by NK effector cells, but does not appear to involve any alteration of KIR, DNAM1 or NKG2D ligands expression on resistant cells nor the induction of a protective autophagy. To gain further insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying the acquired tumor resistance to NK cells-mediated cytotoxicity, we have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the variants transcriptome. Comparative analysis identified an expression profile of genes that best distinguished resistant variant from parental sensitive cancer cells with candidate genes putatively involved in NK cell-mediated lysis resistance, but also in adhesion, migration and invasiveness including up-regulated genes such as POT1, L1CAM or ECM1 and down-regulated genes like B7-H6 or UCHL1. Consequently, the selected variants did not only display resistance to NK cell-mediated lysis but also exhibited more aggressive properties. The present studies emphasize that NK cells expand far beyond the simple killing of malignant cells and may be important effectors during cancer immunoediting.This study aims to compare transcriptome of T1_ref cells (2 triplicates samples untreated versus 2 triplicate samples of T1 after cocultured with NK cells).
2020-11-02 | E-MTAB-8777 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:T-cell recruiting bispecific antibodies (BsAbs) are in clinical development for relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Despite promising response rates, early clinical trials have failed to demonstrate durable responses. Here we investigated whether activation of the innate immune system through stimulator of interferon genes (STING) can enhance target-cell killing by a BsAb targeting CD33 (CD33 BiTE® molecule). Indeed, we show that cytotoxicity against AML mediated by the CD33 BiTE molecule AMG 330 can be greatly enhanced when combined with the STING agonist 2',3'-cyclic GMP–AMP (cGAMP). We used invitro cytotoxicity assays, immunoblotting, transcriptomic analyses, and extensive CRISPR–Cas9 knockout experiments to investigate the enhancing effect of cGAMP on the cytotoxicity of AMG330 against AML. Mechanistically, activated T cells prime target AML cells to STING activation through their effector cytokines interferon-gamma (IFNγ) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF), leading to increased production of typeI interferons and induction of interferon-stimulated genes. This feeds back to the T cells, leading to a further increase in effector cytokines and an overall cytotoxic T-cell phenotype, contributing to the beneficial effect of cGAMP in enhancing AMG330-mediated lysis. As such, we establish a key role for IFNγ in AMG 330-mediated cytotoxicity against AML cells, as well as in rendering AML cells responsive to STING agonism. Here, we propose to improve the efficacy of CD33-targeting BsAbs by combining them with a STING agonist.
2025-02-01 | GSE253398 | GEO
Project description:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in regulating immune response of natural killer (NK) cells, a critical effectors against malignancy and infection. Here, miRNAs profiles of goat uterine NK (uNK) cells and peripheral blood NK (pNK) cells were examined, and a novel miRNAs, miR-1, that is lowly expressed in uNK cells compared to pNK cells were identified. We further demonstrated that miR-1 directly target TWEAK gene in NK cells, a negative regulator of NK cell cytotoxicity. Moreover, our data revealed that an increased miR-1 expression was observed in uNK cells incubated with somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) conditioned medium compared to those incubated with in vitro fertilization (IVF) conditioned medium, and an inverse correlation was detected between miR-1 expression and TWEAK mRNA and protein expression in both groups. Interestingly, miR-1 mediated suppression of TWEAK in uNK cells in response to SCNT conditioned medium incubation was accompanied with an increased cytotoxicity and IFN-γ expression compared to control group. Furthermore, miR-1 inhibitor transfection abrogate the enhanced cytotoxicity of uNK cells incubated with SCNT conditioned medium, which was accompanied with an increased TWEAK expression. Taken together, our results demonstrated that TWEAK regulated by miR-1 may play a key role in regulating goat uNK cells cytotoxicity and IFN-γ expression levels. In particularly, miR-1 mediated suppression of TWEAK may involved in the increased cytotoxicity of uNK cells in response to SCNT embryo incubation. These results provide a resource for studying the roles of miRNAs in goat NK cell biology and contribute to a better understanding of the physiologic significance of miRNAs in the regulation of NK cell function.
2020-01-23 | GSE144088 | GEO
Project description:Natural Killer (NK) cells are innate immune cells that can directly detect and kill cancer cells. Understanding the molecular determinants regulating human NK cell cytotoxicity could help harness these cells for cancer therapies. To this end, we compared the transcriptome of NK cell clones derived from human peripheral blood, which were strongly or weakly cytotoxic against 721.221 and other target cells. After one month of culture, potent NK cell clones showed a significant upregulation in genes involved in cell cycle progression, suggesting that proliferating NK cells were particularly cytotoxic. Beyond two months of culture, NK cell clones which were strongly cytotoxic varied in their expression of 28 genes, including CD8Α and CD70; NK cells with high levels of CD70 expression were weakly cytotoxic while high CD8Α correlated with strong cytotoxicity. Thus, NK cells were cultured and sorted for expression of CD70 and CD8α, and in accordance with the transcriptomic data, CD70 + NK cells showed low cytotoxicity against 721.221 and K562 target cells. Cytotoxicity of CD70 + NK cells could be enhanced using blocking antibodies against CD70, indicating a direct role for CD70 in mediating low cytotoxicity. Furthermore, time-lapse microscopy of NK cell-target cell interactions revealed that CD8α + NK cells have an increased propensity to sequentially engage and kill multiple target cells. Thus, these two markers relate to NK cell populations which are capable of potent killing (CD70 -) or serial killing (CD8α + ).
2025-02-11 | GSE289212 | GEO
Project description:Natural Killer (NK) cells present natural cytotoxicity against tumor cells, although their activity is increased after activation.NK cell activation depends on a complex intracellular signaling process mediated by activating and inhibitory receptors and the functional outcome depends on the integration of the activating and inhibitory signals received. Soluble cytokines and/or ligands on target cells bind the NK cell receptors, and hence, influence the final NK cell response: attack versus ignorance. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying NK cell activation by IL-2, a MHC-I-deficient target cell (K562)+IL-2 and an EBV-target cell (R69).
2014-09-09 | GSE50839 | GEO
Project description:The anti-leukemia activity of NK cells helps to prevent relapse during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in leukemia patients. However, the factors that determine sensitivity or resistance of leukemia cells in the context of NK-mediated cytotoxicity are not well established. Here we performed a genome-wide CRIPSR screen in the human chronic-myelogenous-leukemia (CML) cell line K562 to identify genes that regulate vulnerability of leukemia cells to killing by primary human NK cells. Distribution of guide RNAs (gRNAs) in K562 cells that survived co-incubation with NK cells showed that loss of NCR3LG1, which encodes the ligand of the natural cytotoxicity receptor NKp30, protected K562 cells from killing. In contrast, loss of genes that regulate pathways for antigen-presentation and interferon-gamma-signaling increased the vulnerability of K562 cells. Addition of IFN-gamma neutralizing antibody increased the susceptibility of K562 cells to NK-mediated killing. Upregulation of MHC class I on K562 cells after co-incubation with NK cells was dependent on IFNGR2. Analysis of RNA-seq data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) showed that low IFNGR2 expression in cancer tissues associated with improved overall survival in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and Kidney Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma (KIRC) patients. Our results showing that upregulation of MHC class I by NK-derived IFN-gamma leads to resistance to NK cytotoxicity suggest that targeting IFN-gamma responses might be a promising approach to enhance NK cell anti-cancer efficacy.
2019-10-24 | GSE139313 | GEO