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Ref Type | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
PMID | (27626654) | ||||||||||||
Authors | Zhu H, Bengsch F, Svoronos N, Rutkowski MR, Bitler BG, Allegrezza MJ, Yokoyama Y, Kossenkov AV, Bradner JE, Conejo-Garcia JR, Zhang R | ||||||||||||
Title | BET Bromodomain Inhibition Promotes Anti-tumor Immunity by Suppressing PD-L1 Expression. | ||||||||||||
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Abstract Text | Restoration of anti-tumor immunity by blocking PD-L1 signaling through the use of antibodies has proven to be beneficial in cancer therapy. Here, we show that BET bromodomain inhibition suppresses PD-L1 expression and limits tumor progression in ovarian cancer. CD274 (encoding PD-L1) is a direct target of BRD4-mediated gene transcription. In mouse models, treatment with the BET inhibitor JQ1 significantly reduced PD-L1 expression on tumor cells and tumor-associated dendritic cells and macrophages, which correlated with an increase in the activity of anti-tumor cytotoxic T cells. The BET inhibitor limited tumor progression in a cytotoxic T-cell-dependent manner. Together, these data demonstrate a small-molecule approach to block PD-L1 signaling. Given the fact that BET inhibitors have been proven to be safe with manageable reversible toxicity in clinical trials, our findings indicate that pharmacological BET inhibitors represent a treatment strategy for targeting PD-L1 expression. |
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CD274 positive | ovarian cancer | predicted - sensitive | JQ1 | Preclinical | Actionable | In a preclinical study, JQ1 suppressed CD274 (PD-L1) expression in human ovarian cancer cell lines in culture, and inhibited CD274 (PD-L1) expression in both immune cells and tumor cells in syngeneic mouse models of ovarian cancer, resulted in cytotoxic T Cell-dependent inhibition of tumor progression (PMID: 27626654). | 27626654 |