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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
卷 210, 期 11, 页码 2257-2271出版社
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20130281
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01 AR52921]
- Shriners Hospital Fund
- Bright Institute Pilot Research grant
- NIH [AR052705, EB007568]
- Barnes-Jewish Foundation
- Barnes Jewish Hospital Cancer Frontier Fund
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21229007] Funding Source: KAKEN
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) favor tumor promotion, mainly by suppressing antitumor T cell responses in many cancers. Although the mechanism of T cell inhibition is established, the pathways leading to MDSC accumulation in bone marrow and secondary lymphoid organs of tumor-bearing hosts remain unclear. We demonstrate that down-regulation of PLC gamma 2 signaling in MDSCs is responsible for their aberrant expansion during tumor progression. PLC gamma 2(-/-) MDSCs show stronger immune-suppressive activity against CD8(+) T cells than WT MDSCs and potently promote tumor growth when adoptively transferred into WT mice. Mechanistically, PLC gamma 2(-/-) MDSCs display reduced beta-catenin levels, and restoration of beta-catenin expression decreases their expansion and tumor growth. Consistent with a negative role for beta-catenin in MDSCs, its deletion in the myeloid population leads to MDSC accumulation and supports tumor progression, whereas expression of beta-catenin constitutively active reduces MDSC numbers and protects from tumor growth. Further emphasizing the clinical relevance of these findings, MDSCs isolated from pancreatic cancer patients show reduced p-PLC gamma 2 and beta-catenin levels compared with healthy controls, similar to tumor-bearing mice. Thus, for the first time, we demonstrate that down-regulation of PLC gamma 2-beta-catenin pathway occurs in mice and humans and leads to MDSC-mediated tumor expansion, raising concerns about the efficacy of systemic beta-catenin blockade as anti-cancer therapy.
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