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The Role of PTEN Loss in Immune Escape, Melanoma Prognosis and Therapy Response

Cabrita, Rita LU ; Mitra, Shamik LU ; Sanna, Adriana LU orcid ; Ekedahl, Henrik LU ; Lövgren, Kristina LU ; Olsson, Håkan LU orcid ; Ingvar, Christian LU ; Isaksson, Karolin LU ; Lauss, Martin LU and Carneiro, Ana LU orcid , et al. (2020) In Cancers 12(3).
Abstract
Checkpoint blockade therapies have changed the clinical management of metastatic melanoma patients considerably, showing survival benefits. Despite the clinical success, not all patients respond to treatment or they develop resistance. Although there are several treatment predictive biomarkers, understanding therapy resistance and the mechanisms of tumor immune evasion is crucial to increase the frequency of patients benefiting from treatment. The PTEN gene is thought to promote immune evasion and is frequently mutated in cancer and melanoma. Another feature of melanoma tumors that may affect the capacity of escaping T-cell recognition is melanoma cell dedifferentiation characterized by decreased expression of the microphtalmia-associated... (More)
Checkpoint blockade therapies have changed the clinical management of metastatic melanoma patients considerably, showing survival benefits. Despite the clinical success, not all patients respond to treatment or they develop resistance. Although there are several treatment predictive biomarkers, understanding therapy resistance and the mechanisms of tumor immune evasion is crucial to increase the frequency of patients benefiting from treatment. The PTEN gene is thought to promote immune evasion and is frequently mutated in cancer and melanoma. Another feature of melanoma tumors that may affect the capacity of escaping T-cell recognition is melanoma cell dedifferentiation characterized by decreased expression of the microphtalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) gene. In this study, we have explored the role of PTEN in prognosis, therapy response, and immune escape in the context of MITF expression using immunostaining and genomic data from a large cohort of metastatic melanoma. We confirmed in our cohort that PTEN alterations promote immune evasion highlighted by decreased frequency of T-cell infiltration in such tumors, resulting in a worse patient survival. More importantly, our results suggest that dedifferentiated PTEN negative melanoma tumors have poor patient outcome, no T-cell infiltration, and transcriptional properties rendering them resistant to targeted- and immuno-therapy. (Less)
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Cancers
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12
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3
article number
742
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MDPI AG
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  • scopus:85082929160
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2072-6694
DOI
10.3390/cancers12030742
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English
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  abstract     = {{Checkpoint blockade therapies have changed the clinical management of metastatic melanoma patients considerably, showing survival benefits. Despite the clinical success, not all patients respond to treatment or they develop resistance. Although there are several treatment predictive biomarkers, understanding therapy resistance and the mechanisms of tumor immune evasion is crucial to increase the frequency of patients benefiting from treatment. The PTEN gene is thought to promote immune evasion and is frequently mutated in cancer and melanoma. Another feature of melanoma tumors that may affect the capacity of escaping T-cell recognition is melanoma cell dedifferentiation characterized by decreased expression of the microphtalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) gene. In this study, we have explored the role of PTEN in prognosis, therapy response, and immune escape in the context of MITF expression using immunostaining and genomic data from a large cohort of metastatic melanoma. We confirmed in our cohort that PTEN alterations promote immune evasion highlighted by decreased frequency of T-cell infiltration in such tumors, resulting in a worse patient survival. More importantly, our results suggest that dedifferentiated PTEN negative melanoma tumors have poor patient outcome, no T-cell infiltration, and transcriptional properties rendering them resistant to targeted- and immuno-therapy.}},
  author       = {{Cabrita, Rita and Mitra, Shamik and Sanna, Adriana and Ekedahl, Henrik and Lövgren, Kristina and Olsson, Håkan and Ingvar, Christian and Isaksson, Karolin and Lauss, Martin and Carneiro, Ana and Jönsson, Göran}},
  issn         = {{2072-6694}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{03}},
  number       = {{3}},
  publisher    = {{MDPI AG}},
  series       = {{Cancers}},
  title        = {{The Role of PTEN Loss in Immune Escape, Melanoma Prognosis and Therapy Response}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers12030742}},
  doi          = {{10.3390/cancers12030742}},
  volume       = {{12}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}