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RIP1 Kinase Drives Macrophage-Mediated Adaptive Immune Tolerance in Pancreatic Cancer

  • Cancer Cell. 2018 Nov 12;34(5):757-774.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.10.006.
Wei Wang 1 Jill M Marinis 2 Allison M Beal 2 Shivraj Savadkar 1 Yue Wu 1 Mohammed Khan 1 Pardeep S Taunk 1 Nan Wu 1 Wenyu Su 1 Jingjing Wu 1 Aarif Ahsan 3 Emma Kurz 1 Ting Chen 3 Inedouye Yaboh 1 Fei Li 3 Johana Gutierrez 1 Brian Diskin 1 Mautin Hundeyin 1 Michael Reilly 2 John D Lich 2 Philip A Harris 2 Mukesh K Mahajan 2 James H Thorpe 2 Pamela Nassau 2 Julie E Mosley 2 Joshua Leinwand 1 Juan A Kochen Rossi 1 Ankita Mishra 1 Berk Aykut 1 Michael Glacken 1 Atsuo Ochi 1 Narendra Verma 3 Jacqueline I Kim 1 Varshini Vasudevaraja 4 Dennis Adeegbe 3 Christina Almonte 3 Ece Bagdatlioglu 3 Deirdre J Cohen 3 Kwok-Kin Wong 3 John Bertin 5 George Miller 6
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 S. Arthur Localio Laboratory, Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, 435 East 30th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA.
  • 2 Pattern Recognition Receptor Discovery Performance Unit, Immuno-Inflammation Therapeutic Area, GlaxoSmithKline, 1250 South Collegeville Road, Collegeville, PA 19426, USA.
  • 3 Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
  • 4 Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
  • 5 Pattern Recognition Receptor Discovery Performance Unit, Immuno-Inflammation Therapeutic Area, GlaxoSmithKline, 1250 South Collegeville Road, Collegeville, PA 19426, USA. Electronic address: john.j.bertin@gsk.com.
  • 6 S. Arthur Localio Laboratory, Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, 435 East 30th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA; Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA. Electronic address: george.miller@nyumc.org.
Abstract

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is characterized by immune tolerance and immunotherapeutic resistance. We discovered upregulation of receptor-interacting serine/threonine protein kinase 1 (RIP1) in tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) in PDA. To study its role in oncogenic progression, we developed a selective small-molecule RIP1 inhibitor with high in vivo exposure. Targeting RIP1 reprogrammed TAMs toward an MHCIIhiTNFα+IFNγ+ immunogenic phenotype in a STAT1-dependent manner. RIP1 inhibition in TAMs resulted in cytotoxic T cell activation and T helper cell differentiation toward a mixed Th1/Th17 phenotype, leading to tumor immunity in mice and in organotypic models of human PDA. Targeting RIP1 synergized with PD1-and inducible co-stimulator-based immunotherapies. Tumor-promoting effects of RIP1 were independent of its co-association with RIP3. Collectively, our work describes RIP1 as a checkpoint kinase governing tumor immunity.

Keywords

Pancreatic cancer; inflammation; macrophage polarization; tumor immunity.

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