Accession PRJCA023207
Title PARP inhibitors enhance anti-tumor immune responses by triggering pyroptosis via TNF-caspase8-GSDMD/E axis
Relevance Medical
Data types Transcriptome or Gene expression
Raw sequence reads
Organisms Mus musculus
Homo sapiens
Description Besides the well-established synthetic lethality, PARP inhibition can also trigger immune responses that contribute to tumor suppression. Yet the pharmacological effect remains incompletely understood. Using TCR-sequencing and histological analyses of mouse ID8 tumors and clinical specimens from a prospective study (NCT04507841), we found that PARP inhibitors triggered tumor immunogenic cell death (ICD), which resulted in the transition into a "hot" tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) and enhanced tumor-targeting immune responses. The ICD induced by PARP inhibitors has characteristics of pyroptosis such as classic morphological changes and GSDMD/E cleavage. This GSDMD/E cleavage was closely associated with the increased caspase 8 activity that was located downstream of the TNF signaling pathway but not FAS/FASL and TRAIL. PARP inhibition-activated NF-κB contributed to the secretion of TNF-α, resulting in the activation of caspase 8 without inhibition by c-FLIP. Blocking pyroptosis with the depletion of GSDMD and GSDME facilitated tumor growth and impaired immune response in a syngeneic mouse model. Hence, our data revealed a novel mechanism by which PARP inhibitors inflame TIME and drive tumor-targeting immune response, with potential applications in developing effective combinational therapies for tumors.
Sample scope Multispecies
Release date 2024-10-26
Publication
PubMed ID Article title Journal name DOI Year
39366751 PARP inhibitors enhance antitumor immune responses by triggering pyroptosis via TNF–caspase 8–GSDMD/E axis in ovarian cancer Journal for Immunotherapy Of Cancer 10.1136/jitc-2024-009032 2024
Grants
Agency program Grant ID Grant title
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST) National Key Technologies R&D Program 2022YFC2704200
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST) National Key Technologies R&D Program 2022YFC2704205
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 81902933
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 82372928
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 82072889
Submitter Qinglei Gao (qingleigao@hotmail.com)
Organization Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Submission date 2024-01-25

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