Nature Communications (May 2021)
Targeting Treg cells with GITR activation alleviates resistance to immunotherapy in murine glioblastomas
- Zohreh Amoozgar,
- Jonas Kloepper,
- Jun Ren,
- Rong En Tay,
- Samuel W. Kazer,
- Evgeny Kiner,
- Shanmugarajan Krishnan,
- Jessica M. Posada,
- Mitrajit Ghosh,
- Emilie Mamessier,
- Christina Wong,
- Gino B. Ferraro,
- Ana Batista,
- Nancy Wang,
- Mark Badeaux,
- Sylvie Roberge,
- Lei Xu,
- Peigen Huang,
- Alex K. Shalek,
- Dai Fukumura,
- Hye-Jung Kim,
- Rakesh K. Jain
Affiliations
- Zohreh Amoozgar
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Jonas Kloepper
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Jun Ren
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Rong En Tay
- Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Harvard Medical School
- Samuel W. Kazer
- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Evgeny Kiner
- Department of Immunology, Harvard Medical School
- Shanmugarajan Krishnan
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Jessica M. Posada
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Mitrajit Ghosh
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Emilie Mamessier
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Christina Wong
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Gino B. Ferraro
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Ana Batista
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Nancy Wang
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Mark Badeaux
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Sylvie Roberge
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Lei Xu
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Peigen Huang
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Alex K. Shalek
- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Dai Fukumura
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- Hye-Jung Kim
- Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Harvard Medical School
- Rakesh K. Jain
- Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22885-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 16
Abstract
Glioblastomas (GBM) are frequently resistant to immune checkpoint blockade therapy. Here the authors show that treatment with an agonistic anti-GITR antibody converts tumor infiltrating regulatory T cells to effector cells, overcoming resistance to PD1 blockade in preclinical models of GBM.