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New hormone receptor-positive breast cancer mouse cell line mimicking the immune microenvironment of anti-PD-1 resistant mammary carcinoma

BACKGROUND: Progress in breast cancer (BC) research relies on the availability of suitable cell lines that can be implanted in immunocompetent laboratory mice. The best studied mouse strain, C57BL/6, is also the only one for which multiple genetic variants are available to facilitate the exploration...

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Autores principales: Perez-Lanzon, Maria, Carbonnier, Vincent, Cordier, Pierre, De Palma, Fatima Domenica Elisa, Petrazzuolo, Adriana, Klein, Christophe, Arbaretaz, Floriane, Mangane, Khady, Stoll, Gautier, Martins, Isabelle, Fohrer Ting, Helene, Paillet, Juliette, Mouillet-Richard, Sophie, Le Corre, Delphine, Xiao, Wenjjin, Sroussi, Marine, Desdouets, Chantal, Laurent-Puig, Pierre, Pol, Jonathan, Lopez-Otin, Carlos, Maiuri, Maria Chiara, Kroemer, Guido
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10314679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37344100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2023-007117
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Progress in breast cancer (BC) research relies on the availability of suitable cell lines that can be implanted in immunocompetent laboratory mice. The best studied mouse strain, C57BL/6, is also the only one for which multiple genetic variants are available to facilitate the exploration of the cancer-immunity dialog. Driven by the fact that no hormone receptor-positive (HR(+)) C57BL/6-derived mammary carcinoma cell lines are available, we decided to establish such cell lines. METHODS: BC was induced in female C57BL/6 mice using a synthetic progesterone analog (medroxyprogesterone acetate, MPA) combined with a DNA damaging agent (7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene, DMBA). Cell lines were established from these tumors and selected for dual (estrogen+progesterone) receptor positivity, as well as transplantability into C57BL/6 immunocompetent females. RESULTS: One cell line, which we called B6BC, fulfilled these criteria and allowed for the establishment of invasive estrogen receptor-positive (ER(+)) tumors with features of epithelial to mesenchymal transition that were abundantly infiltrated by myeloid immune populations but scarcely by T lymphocytes, as determined by single-nucleus RNA sequencing and high-dimensional leukocyte profiling. Such tumors failed to respond to programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) blockade, but reduced their growth on treatment with ER antagonists, as well as with anthracycline-based chemotherapy, which was not influenced by T-cell depletion. Moreover, B6BC-derived tumors reduced their growth on CD11b blockade, indicating tumor sustainment by myeloid cells. The immune environment and treatment responses recapitulated by B6BC-derived tumors diverged from those of ER(+) TS/A cell-derived tumors in BALB/C mice, and of ER(–) E0771 cell-derived and MPA/DMBA-induced tumors in C57BL/6 mice. CONCLUSIONS: B6BC is the first transplantable HR(+) BC cell line derived from C57BL/6 mice and B6BC-derived tumors recapitulate the complex tumor microenvironment of locally advanced HR(+) BC naturally resistant to PD-1 immunotherapy.