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ArticleJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2022

Tumor-targeted interleukin-12 synergizes with entinostat to overcome PD-1/PD-L1 blockade-resistant tumors harboring MHC-I and APM deficiencies.

Christine M Minnar, Paul L Chariou, Lucas A Horn, Kristin C Hicks, Claudia Palena, Jeffrey Schlom, Sofia R Gameiro

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Article in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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41citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christine M MinnarCenter for Immuno-Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7497-9459
Paul L ChariouCenter for Immuno-Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7115-3878
Lucas A HornCenter for Immuno-Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6011-2061
Kristin C HicksCenter for Immuno-Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9192-875X
Claudia PalenaCenter for Immuno-Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0445-4486
Jeffrey Schlom *Center for Immuno-Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA schlomj@mail.nih.gov.ORCID 0000-0001-7932-4072
Sofia R Gameiro *Center for Immuno-Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2392-8122
National Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Strategies for Cancer Vaccine Development: Preclinical StudiesZIABC010944 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI SCHLOM, JEFFREY · 2009 to 2025
$26.6M
Novel Targets for Vaccine TherapyZICBC010937 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI PALENA, CLAUDIA · 2010 to 2022
$13.2M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundImmune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has achieved unprecedented success in treating multiple cancer types. However, clinical benefit remains modest for most patients with solid malignancies due to primary or acquired resistance. Tumor-intrinsic loss of major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) and aberrations in antigen processing machinery (APM) and interferon gamma (IFN-γ) pathways have been shown to play an important role in ICB resistance. While a plethora of combination treatments are being investigated to overcome ICB resistance, there are few identified preclinical models of solid tumors harboring these deficiencies to explore therapeutic interventions that can bypass ICB resistance. Here, we investigated the combination of the epigenetic modulator entinostat and the tumor-targeted immunocytokine NHS-IL12 in three different murine tumor models resistant to αPD-1/αPD-L1 (anti-programmed cell death protein 1/anti-programmed death ligand 1) and harboring MHC-I, APM, and IFN-γ response deficiencies and differing tumor mutational burden (TMB).

methodsEntinostat and NHS-IL12 were administered to mice bearing TC-1/a9 (lung, HPV16 E6/E7

resultsWe demonstrate that the combination of entinostat and NHS-IL12 therapy elicits potent antitumor activity and survival benefit through prolonged activation and tumor infiltration of cytotoxic CD8

conclusionsOur findings provide a rationale for combining the tumor-targeting NHS-IL12 with the histone deacetylase inhibitor entinostat in the clinical setting for patients unresponsive to αPD-1/αPD-L1 and/or with innate deficiencies in tumor MHC-I, APM expression, and IFN-γ signaling.

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Immune Checkpoint InhibitorsNeoplasmsAnimalsAntigen PresentationB7-H1 AntigenBenzamidesBiomarkers, TumorCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesHistocompatibility Antigens Class IHLA AntigensInterferon-gammaInterleukin-12MiceProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorPyridinesTumor MicroenvironmentB7-H1 AntigenBenzamidesBiomarkers, TumorentinostatHistocompatibility Antigens Class IHLA AntigensImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsInterferon-gammaInterleukin-12Programmed Cell Death 1 ReceptorPyridinescombined modality therapycytokinesimmunotherapyprogrammed cell death 1 receptortumor microenvironment

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PMID35764364
PMCPMC9240938
OpenAlexW4283716866

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