{"title":"HER2-targeting CAR-T cells show highly efficient anti-tumor activity against glioblastoma both in vitro and in vivo","authors":"Xueying Li, Lifen Zhao, Wenzhe Li, Peng Gao, Nianzhu Zhang","doi":"10.1038/s41435-024-00275-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41435-024-00275-6","url":null,"abstract":"Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant primary brain tumor in adults. Current treatment options for GBM include surgical resection, radiation, and chemotherapy, which predominantly slow cancer growth and reduce symptoms, resulting in a 5-year survival rate of no more than 10%. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is a new class of cellular immunotherapy that has made great progress in treating malignant tumors. Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is overexpressed in GBM and may provide a potential therapeutic target for GBM treatment. In this study, we constructed third-generation CAR-T cells targeting the HER2 antigen in GBM. HER2-CAR-T cells showed effective anti-tumor activity both in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, HER2-specific CAR-T cells exhibited strong cytotoxicity and cytokine-secreting abilities against GBM cells in vitro. Anti-HER2 CAR-T cells also exhibited increased cytotoxicity with increasing effector-to-target ratios. Anti-HER2 CAR-T cells delivered via peritumoral injection successfully stunted tumor progression in vivo. Moreover, peritumoral intravenous administration of anti-HER2 CAR-T cells resulted in therapeutic improvement against GBM cells compared with intravenous administration. In conclusion, our study shows that HER2 CAR-T cells represent an emerging immunotherapy for treating GBM.","PeriodicalId":12691,"journal":{"name":"Genes and immunity","volume":"25 3","pages":"201-208"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41435-024-00275-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140851071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oxidized phospholipids during microbial challenge: friend or foe?","authors":"Henrique G. Colaço, Kelsey Voss","doi":"10.1038/s41435-024-00273-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41435-024-00273-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12691,"journal":{"name":"Genes and immunity","volume":"25 3","pages":"177-178"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41435-024-00273-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140672781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mahmoud Mohammad Yaseen, Nizar Mohammad Abuharfeil, Homa Darmani
{"title":"MDSC expansion during HIV infection: regulators, ART and immune reconstitution","authors":"Mahmoud Mohammad Yaseen, Nizar Mohammad Abuharfeil, Homa Darmani","doi":"10.1038/s41435-024-00272-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41435-024-00272-9","url":null,"abstract":"Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) become expanded in different pathological conditions including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and this may worsen the disease status and accelerate disease progression. In HIV infection, MDSCs suppress anti-HIV immune responses and hamper immune reconstitution. Understanding the factors and mechanisms of MDSC expansion during HIV infection is central to understanding the pathophysiology of HIV infection. This may pave the way to developing new therapeutic targets or strategies. In this work we addressed (i) the mechanisms that regulate MDSC expansion, (ii) the impact of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on the frequency of MDSCs during HIV infection; (iii) the impact of MDSCs on immune reconstitution during successful ART; and (iv) the potential of MDSCs as a therapeutic target.","PeriodicalId":12691,"journal":{"name":"Genes and immunity","volume":"25 3","pages":"242-253"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140566212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lisabeth Pimenov, Azuah Lucrecia Gonzalez, Amanda C. Doran, Sylvia Knapp
{"title":"Correction: Same name, different game?—How ontogeny shapes classical monocyte phenotypes","authors":"Lisabeth Pimenov, Azuah Lucrecia Gonzalez, Amanda C. Doran, Sylvia Knapp","doi":"10.1038/s41435-024-00269-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41435-024-00269-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12691,"journal":{"name":"Genes and immunity","volume":"25 3","pages":"264-264"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41435-024-00269-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140723829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charalabos Antonatos, Georgios K. Georgakilas, Evangelos Evangelou, Yiannis Vasilopoulos
{"title":"Transcriptomic meta-analysis characterizes molecular commonalities between psoriasis and obesity","authors":"Charalabos Antonatos, Georgios K. Georgakilas, Evangelos Evangelou, Yiannis Vasilopoulos","doi":"10.1038/s41435-024-00271-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41435-024-00271-w","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the abundance of epidemiological evidence for the high comorbid rate between psoriasis and obesity, systematic approaches to common inflammatory mechanisms have not been adequately explored. We performed a meta-analysis of publicly available RNA-sequencing datasets to unveil putative mechanisms that are postulated to exacerbate both diseases, utilizing both late-stage, disease-specific meta-analyses and consensus gene co-expression network (cWGCNA). Single-gene meta-analyses reported several common inflammatory mechanisms fostered by the perturbed expression profile of inflammatory cells. Assessment of gene overlaps between both diseases revealed significant overlaps between up- (n = 170, P value = 6.07 × 10−65) and down-regulated (n = 49, P value = 7.1 × 10−7) genes, associated with increased T cell response and activated transcription factors. Our cWGCNA approach disentangled 48 consensus modules, associated with either the differentiation of leukocytes or metabolic pathways with similar correlation signals in both diseases. Notably, all our analyses confirmed the association of the perturbed T helper (Th)17 differentiation pathway in both diseases. Our novel findings through whole transcriptomic analyses characterize the inflammatory commonalities between psoriasis and obesity implying the assessment of several expression profiles that could serve as putative comorbid disease progression biomarkers and therapeutic interventions.","PeriodicalId":12691,"journal":{"name":"Genes and immunity","volume":"25 3","pages":"179-187"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140737220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative single-cell transcriptomic profile of hybrid immunity induced by adenovirus vector-based COVID-19 vaccines","authors":"Melissa García-Vega, Hui Wan, Mónica Reséndiz-Sandoval, Diana Hinojosa-Trujillo, Olivia Valenzuela, Verónica Mata-Haro, Freddy Dehesa-Canseco, Mario Solís-Hernández, Harold Marcotte, Qiang Pan-Hammarström, Jesús Hernández","doi":"10.1038/s41435-024-00270-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41435-024-00270-x","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, antibody response and a single-cell RNA-seq analysis were conducted on peripheral blood mononuclear cells from five different groups: naïve subjects vaccinated with AZD1222 (AZ) or Ad5-nCoV (Cso), individuals previously infected and later vaccinated (hybrid) with AZD1222 (AZ-hb) or Ad5-nCoV (Cso-hb), and those who were infected and had recovered from COVID-19 (Inf). The results showed that AZ induced more robust neutralizing antibody responses than Cso. The single-cell RNA data revealed a high frequency of memory B cells in the Cso and Cso-hb. In contrast, AZ and AZ-hb groups exhibited the highest proportion of activated naïve B cells expressing CXCR4. Transcriptomic analysis of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells demonstrated a heterogeneous response following vaccination, hybrid immunity, or natural infection. However, a single dose of Ad5-nCoV was sufficient to strongly activate CD4+ T cells (naïve and memory) expressing ANX1 and FOS, similar to the hybrid response observed with AZ. An interesting finding was the robust activation of a subset of CD8+ T cells expressing GZMB, GZMH, and IFNG genes in the Cso-hb group. Our findings suggest that both vaccines effectively stimulated the cellular immune response; however, the Ad5-nCoV induced a more robust CD8+ T-cell response in previously infected individuals.","PeriodicalId":12691,"journal":{"name":"Genes and immunity","volume":"25 2","pages":"158-167"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140559882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Guffroy, L. Jacquel, Y. Seeleuthner, N. Paul, V. Poindron, F. Maurier, V. Delannoy, A. C. Voegeli, P. Zhang, B. Nespola, A. Molitor, M. J. Apithy, P. Soulas-Sprauel, T. Martin, R. E. Voll, S. Bahram, V. Gies, J. L. Casanova, A. Cobat, B. Boisson, R. Carapito, A. S. Korganow
{"title":"Correction: An immunogenomic exome landscape of triple positive primary antiphospholipid patients","authors":"A. Guffroy, L. Jacquel, Y. Seeleuthner, N. Paul, V. Poindron, F. Maurier, V. Delannoy, A. C. Voegeli, P. Zhang, B. Nespola, A. Molitor, M. J. Apithy, P. Soulas-Sprauel, T. Martin, R. E. Voll, S. Bahram, V. Gies, J. L. Casanova, A. Cobat, B. Boisson, R. Carapito, A. S. Korganow","doi":"10.1038/s41435-024-00261-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41435-024-00261-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12691,"journal":{"name":"Genes and immunity","volume":"25 2","pages":"176-176"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41435-024-00261-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140174237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wu Yue, Zhou Huiling, Liu Yuxin, Wang Ling, Gao Feng, Liu Qicai
{"title":"Neu5Gc regulates decidual macrophages leading to abnormal embryo implantation","authors":"Wu Yue, Zhou Huiling, Liu Yuxin, Wang Ling, Gao Feng, Liu Qicai","doi":"10.1038/s41435-024-00268-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41435-024-00268-5","url":null,"abstract":"Repeated implantation failure (RIF) is one of the most prominent problems in the field of assisted reproduction. Neu5Gc on the surface of decidual macrophages (dMΦ) leads to different activation patterns of dMΦ, which affects embryo implantation and development. Cmah−/− (Neu5Gc-deficient) mice induced to produce anti-Neu5Gc antibodies in vivo were given a special diet rich in Neu5Gc and their fertility was monitored. The long-term diet rich in Neu5Gc induced the decrease of endometrial receptivity of female mice. The pregnancy rate of female mice fed the normal diet was 63.6% (n = 11) and the average number of embryos was 9.571 ± 1.272, while the pregnancy rate of female mice fed the diet rich in Neu5Gc was 36.4% (n = 11) and the average number of embryos in pregnant mice was 5.750 ± 3.304. The intake of Neu5Gc and the production of anti-Neu5Gc antibody led to M1 polarization of endometrial dMΦ and abnormal embryo implantation.","PeriodicalId":12691,"journal":{"name":"Genes and immunity","volume":"25 2","pages":"149-157"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140157954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chemoimmunotherapy combinations: translating basic knowledge into clinical successes","authors":"Lionel Apetoh","doi":"10.1038/s41435-024-00264-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41435-024-00264-9","url":null,"abstract":"While chemotherapeutic agents were long solely associated with immunosuppression, clinical data demonstrate that the combination of some chemotherapies with immunomodulators can be beneficial against cancer. Defining combinations featuring optimal anticancer activity along with minimal toxicity remains however a major challenge. Clinical evidence suggests that immune responses in patients treated with combination therapies are associated with progression-free survival. Progress in understanding the mechanisms responsible for anticancer immune responses following chemotherapy administration facilitated the translation of relevant chemoimmunotherapy combinations in the clinic.","PeriodicalId":12691,"journal":{"name":"Genes and immunity","volume":"25 2","pages":"99-101"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41435-024-00264-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140119293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xinhui Li, Shan Liu, Laibin Zou, Min Dai, Chaobei Zhu
{"title":"RNA processing modification mediated subtypes illustrate the distinctive features of tumor microenvironment in hepatocellular carcinoma","authors":"Xinhui Li, Shan Liu, Laibin Zou, Min Dai, Chaobei Zhu","doi":"10.1038/s41435-024-00265-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41435-024-00265-8","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple transcript isoforms of genes can be formed by processing and modifying the 5′ and 3′ ends of RNA. Herein, the aim of this study is to uncover the characteristics of RNA processing modification (RPM) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and to identify novel biomarkers and potential targets for treatment. Firstly, integrated bioinformatics analysis was carried out to identify risk prognostic RPM regulators (RPMRs). Then, we used these RPMRs to identify subtypes of HCC and explore differences in immune microenvironment and cellular function improvement pathways between the sub-types. Finally, we used the principal component analysis algorithms to estimate RPMscore, which were applied to 5 cohorts. Lower RPMscore among patients correlated with a declined survival rate, increased immune infiltration, and raised expression of immune checkpoints, aligning with the “immunity tidal model theory”. The RPMscore exhibited robust, which was validated in multiple datasets. Mechanistically, low RPMscore can create an immunosuppressive microenvironment in HCC by manipulating tumor-associated macrophages. Preclinically, patients with high RPMscore might benefit from immunotherapy. The RPMscore is helpful in clustering HCC patients with distinct prognosis and immunotherapy. Our RPMscore model can help clinicians to select personalized therapy for HCC patients, and RPMscore may act a part in the development of HCC.","PeriodicalId":12691,"journal":{"name":"Genes and immunity","volume":"25 2","pages":"132-148"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140109760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}