ArticleCancer gene therapy2023
β3-adrenergic receptor on tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes sustains IFN-γ-dependent PD-L1 expression and impairs anti-tumor immunity in neuroblastoma.
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- Protective Effects of Beta-3 Adrenoceptor Agonism on Mucosal Integrity in Hyperoxia-Induced Ileal Alterations.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- The sympathetic nervous system shapes the tumor microenvironment to impair chemotherapy response.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Review
- β3 Adrenoceptor Agonism Prevents Hyperoxia-Induced Colonic Alterations.Biomolecules · 2023Article
- Neuroblastoma Interaction with the Tumour Microenvironment and Its Implications for Treatment and Disease Progression.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023Review
- Investigating the crosstalk between chronic stress and immune cells: implications for enhanced cancer therapy.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
Neuroblastoma (NB) is a heterogeneous extracranial tumor occurring in childhood. A distinctive feature of NB tumors is their neuroendocrine ability to secrete catecholamines, which in turn, via β-adrenergic receptors ligation, may affect different signaling pathways in tumor microenvironment (TME). It was previously demonstrated that specific antagonism of β3-adrenergic receptor (β3-AR) on NB tumor cells affected tumor growth and progression. Here, in a murine syngeneic model of NB, we aimed to investigate whether the β3-AR modulation influenced the host immune system response against tumor. Results demonstrated that β3-AR antagonism lead to an immune response reactivation, partially dependent on the PD-1/PD-L1 signaling axis involvement. Indeed, β3-AR blockade on tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) dampened their ability to secrete IFN-γ, which in turn reduced the PD-L1 expression, caused by TILs infiltration, on NB tumor cells. Further investigations, through a genomic analysis on NB patients, showed that high ADRB3 gene expression correlates with worse clinical outcome compared to the low expression group, and that ADRB3 gene expression affects different immune-related pathways. Overall, results indicate that β3-AR in NB TME is able to modulate the interaction between tumor and host immune system, and that its antagonism hits multiple pro-tumoral signaling pathways.
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