PMID- 35184967 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220426 LR - 20220616 IS - 1557-3117 (Electronic) IS - 1053-2498 (Linking) VI - 41 IP - 5 DP - 2022 May TI - Establishment of operational tolerance to sustain antitumor immunotherapy. PG - 568-577 LID - S1053-2498(22)00037-7 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.healun.2022.01.019 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Commonly used immunosuppressive drugs are efficacious in the prevention of transplanted solid organ rejection but, are complicated by an increased rate of malignancies. Treatment of the latter with cancer immunotherapy is frequently associated with increased graft loss from rejection. METHODS: B16 melanoma was inoculated subcutaneously (s.c.) in the ear of host B6 mice carrying a heterotopic allogenic murine heart. Intratumoral (i.t.) immunotherapy with anti-programmed death-1 (PD-1) and a toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonist was conducted to treat cancer. Cyclosporine A (CsA) therapy or replaced by other immunosuppressive agents was conducted to preserve heart allograft tolerance, respectively. RESULTS: Here we show that long-term allograft-bearing mice receiving CsA therapy and challenged with host-type melanoma resist cancer immunotherapy and reject their grafts after CsA withdrawal. However, when CsA therapy is replaced by intermittent administration of the PI4KIIIbeta inhibitor UCB9608, effective antitumor immunity is induced while preserving graft tolerance. UCB9608 switch combined with i.t. immunotherapy resulted in donor-specific tolerance with preserved third-party responses. This operational tolerance may not be dependent on regulatory T cells (Tregs). CONCLUSIONS: Immune effects induced by UCB9608 switch following CsA therapy allow for antitumor immunity, opening up new approaches to establish donor-specific operational tolerance in solid organ transplantation with cancer. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Dang, Nana AU - Dang N AD - Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department ;of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. FAU - Waer, Mark AU - Waer M AD - Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department ;of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. FAU - Sprangers, Ben AU - Sprangers B AD - Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department ;of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Nephrology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. FAU - Lin, Yuan AU - Lin Y AD - Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department ;of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: yuan.linphd@gmail.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220131 PL - United States TA - J Heart Lung Transplant JT - The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation JID - 9102703 RN - 0 (Immunosuppressive Agents) RN - 83HN0GTJ6D (Cyclosporine) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - *Cyclosporine/therapeutic use MH - Graft Rejection/prevention & control MH - Graft Survival MH - *Heart Transplantation MH - Humans MH - Immune Tolerance MH - Immunosuppressive Agents/therapeutic use MH - Immunotherapy MH - Mice MH - Rats MH - Rats, Inbred Lew OTO - NOTNLM OT - allograft tolerance OT - antitumor immunity OT - cancer immunotherapy OT - heart transplantation OT - regulatory T cells EDAT- 2022/02/22 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/27 06:00 CRDT- 2022/02/21 05:37 PHST- 2021/08/05 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/12/31 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/01/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/02/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/02/21 05:37 [entrez] AID - S1053-2498(22)00037-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.healun.2022.01.019 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Heart Lung Transplant. 2022 May;41(5):568-577. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2022.01.019. Epub 2022 Jan 31.