1. NASH limits anti-tumour surveillance in immunotherapy-treated HCC
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Stephan Spahn, Florian Müller, Revant Gupta, Dominik Pfister, Kornelius Schulze, Pierre Bedossa, Eleni Kotsiliti, Lars Zender, Mathias Heikenwalder, Nicolás Gonzalo Núñez, Peter Schirmacher, Axel Schulz, Jan Kosla, Adrian T. Billeter, Thomas Engleitner, Aleksandra Deczkowska, Danijela Heide, Donato Inverso, Susanne Roth, Olivier Govaere, Carla Montironi, Martha M. Kirstein, Dan G. Duda, Antonio D'Alessio, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Ekaterina Friebel, Tiziana Pressiani, F. Hucke, Jörg Trojan, Michael Bitzer, Suhail Yousuf, Bernhard Scheiner, Marina Ruiz de Galarreta, Markus Peck-Radosavljevic, Michael Allison, Nuh N. Rahbari, Simon Cockell, Brinda Emu, Ahmed Kaseb, David J. Pinato, Matthias P. Ebert, Joachim C. Mertens, Jean-François Dufour, Fabian Rössler, Achim Weber, Katharina Wolter, Thomas Decaens, Amaia Lujambio, Anja Moncsek, Daniela Lenggenhager, Katharina Pomej, Nisar P. Malek, Fabian Finkelmeier, Elisabetta Bugianesi, Valentina Leone, Ann K. Daly, Michael Dudek, Manfred Claassen, Zuzana Macek Jilkova, Henning Wege, Florian Castet, Marta Szydlowska, Beat P. Müller-Stich, Ramy Younes, Nicola Personeni, Philipp K. Haber, Marco Bueter, Manfred Jugold, Andrea Schietinger, Hiroto Kikuchi, Ido Amit, Sandra Koch, Dina Tiniakos, Ana Teijeiro, Jan-Philipp Mallm, Josep M. Llovet, Indrabahadur Singh, Percy A. Knolle, Sara De Dosso, Roland Rad, Arndt Vogel, Henrik E. Mei, Burkhard Becher, Nabil Djouder, Tom Luedde, Felix Meissner, Oliver Waidmann, Parice N. Marche, Viktor Umansky, Hellmut G. Augustin, Thomas U. Marron, Matthias Pinter, Mengjie Qiu, Arndt Weinmann, Ankit Sinha, Kristian Unger, Assaf Weiner, Vlad Ratziu, Quentin M. Anstee, Kristin Stirm, Yi Hsiang Huang, Alexander Siebenhüner, Fabian Kütting, Lorenza Rimassa, Dirk Waldschmidt, Masatoshi Kudo, Marc Ringelhan, Michele Vacca, Roser Pinyol, Fabio Marra, German Cancer Research Center - Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum [Heidelberg] (DKFZ), Novo Nordisk A/S [Maløv, Denmark], Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich (UZH), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Newcastle University [Newcastle], Medizinische Universität Wien = Medical University of Vienna, University of Tübingen, UniversitätsKlinikum Heidelberg, Weizmann Institute of Science [Rehovot, Israël], Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Technical University of Munich (TUM), University hospital of Zurich [Zurich], Helmholtz-Zentrum München (HZM), Heidelberg University, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [New York] (MSSM), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), University of Turin, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University NHS Trust, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), University Medical Center [Mainz], Cambridge University Hospitals - NHS (CUH), University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Hôpital Beaujon [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Istituto Clinico Humanitas [Milan] (IRCCS Milan), Humanitas University [Milan] (Hunimed), Hannover Medical School [Hannover] (MHH), University Medical Center of Schleswig–Holstein = Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Kiel University, Klinikum Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf = University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf [Hamburg] (UKE), Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI), Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf], Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center [New York], Weill Medical College of Cornell University [New York], Heidelberg University Hospital [Heidelberg], Medical Faculty [Mannheim], Massachusetts General Hospital [Boston], University of Cologne, Deutsches Rheuma-ForschungsZentrum (DRFZ), Deutsches Rheuma-ForschungsZentrum, German Center for Infection Research, Partnersite Munich (DZIF), University Medical Center [Tubingen, Germany], Inselspital Bern, University of Bern, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center [Houston], Kindai University, National Yang Ming University (NYMU), Taipei Veterans General Hospital [Taiwan], Universitätsklinikum Tübingen - University Hospital of Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen = Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Eberhard Karls University [Tübingen, Germany], Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institute for Advanced Biosciences / Institut pour l'Avancée des Biosciences (Grenoble) (IAB), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [Grenoble] (CHU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Etablissement français du sang - Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (EFS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), CHU Grenoble, Hammersmith Hospital NHS Imperial College Healthcare, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale - Amedeo Avogadro (UPO), Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Pfister, Dominik [0000-0002-0542-2638], Núñez, Nicolás Gonzalo [0000-0003-3837-270X], Govaere, Olivier [0000-0002-4426-6930], Szydlowska, Marta [0000-0002-4660-899X], Gupta, Revant [0000-0002-0881-5074], Deczkowska, Aleksandra [0000-0003-0844-4346], Friebel, Ekaterina [0000-0003-1419-2376], Lenggenhager, Daniela [0000-0002-5382-9854], Moncsek, Anja [0000-0002-1191-5842], Inverso, Donato [0000-0003-0987-3345], Vacca, Michele [0000-0002-1973-224X], Marra, Fabio [0000-0001-8629-0878], Allison, Michael [0000-0003-3677-3294], D'Alessio, Antonio [0000-0002-9164-3671], Personeni, Nicola [0000-0002-7995-272X], Rimassa, Lorenza [0000-0001-9957-3615], Pomej, Katharina [0000-0002-2807-3565], Peck-Radosavljevic, Markus [0000-0002-0597-2728], Mallm, Jan-Philipp [0000-0002-7059-4030], Schietinger, Andrea [0000-0003-3644-1687], Augustin, Hellmut G [0000-0002-7173-4242], Kikuchi, Hiroto [0000-0002-3601-8435], Duda, Dan G [0000-0001-7065-8797], Mei, Henrik E [0000-0003-0697-7755], Schulz, Axel Ronald [0000-0002-5106-0148], Ringelhan, Marc [0000-0003-3131-5657], Lujambio, Amaia [0000-0002-2798-1481], Dufour, Jean-Francois [0000-0002-8062-1346], Kudo, Masatoshi [0000-0002-4102-3474], Djouder, Nabil [0000-0001-8423-1030], Zender, Lars [0000-0001-7626-2849], Pinato, David J [0000-0002-3529-0103], Rad, Roland [0000-0002-6849-9659], Mertens, Joachim C [0000-0003-2007-0308], Weber, Achim [0000-0003-0073-3637], Meissner, Felix [0000-0003-1000-7989], Amit, Ido [0000-0003-2968-877X], Knolle, Percy [0000-0003-2983-0414], Becher, Burkhard [0000-0002-1541-7867], Llovet, Josep M [0000-0003-0547-2667], Heikenwalder, Mathias [0000-0002-3135-2274], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie = Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB), Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM), Helmholtz Zentrum München = German Research Center for Environmental Health, Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin (UNITO), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), MARCHE, Patrice, D’Alessio, Antonio [0000-0002-9164-3671], Augustin, Hellmut G. [0000-0002-7173-4242], Duda, Dan G. [0000-0001-7065-8797], Mei, Henrik E. [0000-0003-0697-7755], Pinato, David J. [0000-0002-3529-0103], Mertens, Joachim C. [0000-0003-2007-0308], and Llovet, Josep M. [0000-0003-0547-2667]
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) can have viral or non-viral causes1–5. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is an important driver of HCC. Immunotherapy has been approved for treating HCC, but biomarker-based stratification of patients for optimal response to therapy is an unmet need6,7. Here we report the progressive accumulation of exhausted, unconventionally activated CD8+PD1+ T cells in NASH-affected livers. In preclinical models of NASH-induced HCC, therapeutic immunotherapy targeted at programmed death-1 (PD1) expanded activated CD8+PD1+ T cells within tumours but did not lead to tumour regression, which indicates that tumour immune surveillance was impaired. When given prophylactically, anti-PD1 treatment led to an increase in the incidence of NASH–HCC and in the number and size of tumour nodules, which correlated with increased hepatic CD8+PD1+CXCR6+, TOX+, and TNF+ T cells. The increase in HCC triggered by anti-PD1 treatment was prevented by depletion of CD8+ T cells or TNF neutralization, suggesting that CD8+ T cells help to induce NASH–HCC, rather than invigorating or executing immune surveillance. We found similar phenotypic and functional profiles in hepatic CD8+PD1+ T cells from humans with NAFLD or NASH. A meta-analysis of three randomized phase III clinical trials that tested inhibitors of PDL1 (programmed death-ligand 1) or PD1 in more than 1,600 patients with advanced HCC revealed that immune therapy did not improve survival in patients with non-viral HCC. In two additional cohorts, patients with NASH-driven HCC who received anti-PD1 or anti-PDL1 treatment showed reduced overall survival compared to patients with other aetiologies. Collectively, these data show that non-viral HCC, and particularly NASH–HCC, might be less responsive to immunotherapy, probably owing to NASH-related aberrant T cell activation causing tissue damage that leads to impaired immune surveillance. Our data provide a rationale for stratification of patients with HCC according to underlying aetiology in studies of immunotherapy as a primary or adjuvant treatment., In hepatocellular carcinoma driven by non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, aberrant T cell activation and impaired immune surveillance seem to make hepatocellular carcinoma less responsive to anti-PD1 or anti-PDL1 immunotherapy.
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