Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39388542›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2024

Epigenetic regulators of clonal hematopoiesis control CD8 T cell stemness during immunotherapy.

Tae Gun Kang, Xin Lan, Tian Mi, Hongfeng Chen, Shanta Alli, Song-Eun Lim, Sheetal Bhatara, Anoop Babu Vasandan, Grace Ward, Sofia Bentivegna and 14 more

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Post-Translational Regulation of CD8Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  17. BACH2 the future.Nature immunology · 2026
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  18. Reprogramming CAR T-Cells with designed bioPROTACs.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  20. Regulators of CD8Nature reviews. Immunology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors.

Tae Gun KangDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2997-9887
Xin LanDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-1031-0435
Tian MiDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6446-1995
Hongfeng ChenDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0705-0946
Shanta AlliDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1692-1616
Song-Eun LimCollege of Graduate Health Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-3865-7019
Sheetal BhataraDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-3597-6870
Anoop Babu VasandanDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4043-2468
Grace WardDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4404-7727
Sofia BentivegnaDepartment of Hematology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0009-0005-3824-0290
Josh JangDepartment of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9654-4448
Marianne L SpatzMerck & Co. Inc., Rahway, NJ 07065, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-4582-5038
Jin-Hwan HanMerck & Co. Inc., Rahway, NJ 07065, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2442-8442
Balthasar Clemens SchlotmannThe Finsen Laboratory, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-8137-544X
Jakob Schmidt JespersenBiotech Research and Innovation Center (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-4930-5900
Christopher DerenzoDepartment of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6127-4601
Peter VogelDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7535-0545
Jiyang YuDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1244-4429
Stephen BaylinDepartment of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3697-3798
Peter JonesDepartment of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8309-4767
Casey O'ConnellJane Anne Nohl Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7665-3911
Kirsten GrønbækDepartment of Hematology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-1535-9601
Ben YoungbloodDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1261-9957
Caitlin C ZebleyDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8419-4660

Funding

Targeting DNA Methylation and the Cancer EpigenomeR35CA209859 · NCI · VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI PETER A JONES · 2017 to 2026
$11.9M
EPIGENETIC REPROGRAMMING OF T CELL EXHAUSTION TO ENHANCE TUMOR IMMUNOTHERAPYR01CA237311 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Benjamin Alan Youngblood · 2020 to 2026
$2.9M
Epigenetic Regulation of T-cell Exhaustion During Treated Chronic HIV InfectionR01AI114442 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI YOUNGBLOOD, BENJAMIN ALAN · 2015 to 2019
$2.1M
Decoding the epigenetic landscape that delineates T cell homeostatic proliferation from uncontrolled growth”K08CA279926 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Caitlin Zebley · 2023 to 2026
$791k
NCI NIH HHS K08 CA279926NCI NIH HHS L40 CA242818NCI NIH HHS R01 CA237311NCI NIH HHS R35 CA209859NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI114442
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epigenetic reinforcement of T cell exhaustion is known to be a major barrier limiting T cell responses during immunotherapy. However, the core epigenetic regulators restricting antitumor immunity during prolonged antigen exposure are not clear. We investigated three commonly mutated epigenetic regulators that promote clonal hematopoiesis to determine whether they affect T cell stemness and response to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy. CD8 T cells lacking Dnmt3a, Tet2, or Asxl1 preserved a progenitor-exhausted (Tpex) population for more than 1 year during chronic antigen exposure without undergoing malignant transformation. Asxl1 controlled the self-renewal capacity of T cells and reduced CD8 T cell differentiation through H2AK119 ubiquitination and epigenetic modification of the polycomb group-repressive deubiquitinase pathway. Asxl1-deficient T cells synergized with anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy to improve tumor control in experimental models and conferred a survival advantage to mutated T cells from treated patients.

Indexed as

CD8-Positive T-LymphocytesClonal HematopoiesisDioxygenasesDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA Methyltransferase 3AEpigenesis, GeneticImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmunosuppression TherapyProto-Oncogene ProteinsRepressor ProteinsT-Cell ExhaustionAnimalsB7-H1 AntigenCell DifferentiationDNA (Cytosine-5-)-MethyltransferasesHistonesASXL1 protein, humanB7-H1 AntigenDioxygenasesDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA (Cytosine-5-)-MethyltransferasesDNA Methyltransferase 3ADNMT3A protein, humanDnmt3a protein, mouseHistonesImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsProto-Oncogene ProteinsRepressor ProteinsTET2 protein, humanTet2 protein, mouse

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PMID39388542
PMCPMC11697317

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