Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Resistance of melanoma to immune checkpoint inhibitors is overcome by targeting the sphingosine kinase-1

  • Caroline Imbert,
  • Anne Montfort,
  • Marine Fraisse,
  • Elie Marcheteau,
  • Julia Gilhodes,
  • Elodie Martin,
  • Florie Bertrand,
  • Marlène Marcellin,
  • Odile Burlet-Schiltz,
  • Anne Gonzalez de Peredo,
  • Virginie Garcia,
  • Stéphane Carpentier,
  • Sophie Tartare-Deckert,
  • Pierre Brousset,
  • Philippe Rochaix,
  • Florent Puisset,
  • Thomas Filleron,
  • Nicolas Meyer,
  • Laurence Lamant,
  • Thierry Levade,
  • Bruno Ségui,
  • Nathalie Andrieu-Abadie,
  • Céline Colacios

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14218-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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There are many patients who do not respond to immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) immunotherapy. Here, the authors show a significant negative correlation between sphingosine kinase-1 (SK1) expression and survival for ICI-treated melanoma patients, and further show that targeting SK1 improves response to ICI in mouse cancer models.