PMID- 38364961 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20240326 LR - 20240328 IS - 1872-7980 (Electronic) IS - 0304-3835 (Linking) VI - 587 DP - 2024 Apr 10 TI - Interplay between B7-H3 and HLA class I in the clinical course of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. PG - 216713 LID - S0304-3835(24)00106-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.canlet.2024.216713 [doi] AB - Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I defects are associated with cancer progression. However, their prognostic significance is controversial and may be modulated by immune checkpoints. Here, we investigated whether the checkpoint B7-H3 modulates the relationship between HLA class I and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) prognosis. PDAC tumors were analyzed for the expression of B7-H3, HLA class I, HLA class II molecules, and for the presence of tumor-infiltrating immune cells. We observed defective HLA class I and HLA class II expressions in 75% and 59% of PDAC samples, respectively. HLA class I and B7-H3 expression were positively related at mRNA and protein level, potentially because of shared regulation by RELA, a sub-unit of NF-kB. High B7-H3 expression and low CD8(+) T cell density were indicators of poor survival, while HLA class I was not. Defective HLA class I expression was associated with unfavorable survival only in patients with low B7-H3 expression. Favorable survival was observed only when HLA class I expression was high and B7-H3 expression low. Our results provide the rationale for targeting B7-H3 in patients with PDAC tumors displaying high HLA class I levels. CI - Copyright (c) 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Cattaneo, Giulia AU - Cattaneo G AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/GCattaneoPhD. FAU - Ventin, Marco AU - Ventin M AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Arya, Shahrzad AU - Arya S AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Kontos, Filippos AU - Kontos F AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Michelakos, Theodoros AU - Michelakos T AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Sekigami, Yurie AU - Sekigami Y AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Cai, Lei AU - Cai L AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Villani, Vincenzo AU - Villani V AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Sabbatino, Francesco AU - Sabbatino F AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Chen, Francine AU - Chen F AD - MacroGenics Inc., Rockville, MD, United States. FAU - Sadagopan, Ananthan AU - Sadagopan A AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Deshpande, Vikram AU - Deshpande V AD - Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Moore, Paul A AU - Moore PA AD - MacroGenics Inc., Rockville, MD, United States. FAU - Ting, David T AU - Ting DT AD - MassGeneral Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Bardeesy, Nabeel AU - Bardeesy N AD - MassGeneral Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Wang, Xinhui AU - Wang X AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Ferrone, Soldano AU - Ferrone S AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. FAU - Ferrone, Cristina R AU - Ferrone CR AD - Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States. Electronic address: cristina.ferrone@cshs.org. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20240214 PL - Ireland TA - Cancer Lett JT - Cancer letters JID - 7600053 RN - 0 (B7 Antigens) RN - 0 (B7-H1 Antigen) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class I) RN - 0 (CD276 protein, human) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - B7 Antigens/genetics/metabolism MH - B7-H1 Antigen/genetics/metabolism MH - *Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal/pathology MH - Disease Progression MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class I MH - Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating MH - *Pancreatic Neoplasms/metabolism MH - Prognosis OTO - NOTNLM OT - B7-H3 OT - HLA class I OT - NF-kB OT - PDAC OT - Tumor microenvironment COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2024/02/17 10:42 MHDA- 2024/03/26 06:45 CRDT- 2024/02/16 19:14 PHST- 2023/10/17 00:00 [received] PHST- 2024/01/16 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2024/02/05 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2024/03/26 06:45 [medline] PHST- 2024/02/17 10:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2024/02/16 19:14 [entrez] AID - S0304-3835(24)00106-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.canlet.2024.216713 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cancer Lett. 2024 Apr 10;587:216713. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2024.216713. Epub 2024 Feb 14.