Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Overcoming resistance to immune checkpoint therapy in PTEN-null prostate cancer by intermittent anti-PI3Kα/β/δ treatment

  • Zhi Qi,
  • Zihan Xu,
  • Liuzhen Zhang,
  • Yongkang Zou,
  • Jinping Li,
  • Wenyu Yan,
  • Cheng Li,
  • Ningshu Liu,
  • Hong Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27833-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Limited response to immune checkpoint inhibitors has been reported in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer. Here the authors show that intermittent, but not continuous, treatment with an anti-PI3Kα/β/δ-inhibitor promotes anti-tumor immunity and response to PD-1 blockade in a preclinical Pten-null model of prostate cancer.