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Neoantigen-directed immune escape in lung cancer evolution

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  • Rachel Rosenthal

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    The Francis Crick Institute)

  • Elizabeth Larose Cadieux

    (The Francis Crick Institute)

  • Roberto Salgado

    (GZA-ZNA
    University of Melbourne)

  • Maise Al Bakir

    (The Francis Crick Institute)

  • David A. Moore

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • Crispin T. Hiley

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    The Francis Crick Institute)

  • Tom Lund

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • Miljana Tanić

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • James L. Reading

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • Kroopa Joshi

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • Jake Y. Henry

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • Ehsan Ghorani

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • Gareth A. Wilson

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    The Francis Crick Institute)

  • Nicolai J. Birkbak

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    The Francis Crick Institute)

  • Mariam Jamal-Hanjani

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • Selvaraju Veeriah

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • Zoltan Szallasi

    (Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Danish Cancer Society Research Center)

  • Sherene Loi

    (University of Melbourne)

  • Matthew D. Hellmann

    (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Cornell University)

  • Andrew Feber

    (University College London)

  • Benny Chain

    (University College London
    University College London)

  • Javier Herrero

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • Sergio A. Quezada

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • Jonas Demeulemeester

    (The Francis Crick Institute
    University of Leuven)

  • Peter Loo

    (The Francis Crick Institute
    University of Leuven)

  • Stephan Beck

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • Nicholas McGranahan

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    University College London Cancer Institute, University College London)

  • Charles Swanton

    (University College London Cancer Institute, University College London
    The Francis Crick Institute)

Abstract

The interplay between an evolving cancer and a dynamic immune microenvironment remains unclear. Here we analyse 258 regions from 88 early-stage, untreated non-small-cell lung cancers using RNA sequencing and histopathology-assessed tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte estimates. Immune infiltration varied both between and within tumours, with different mechanisms of neoantigen presentation dysfunction enriched in distinct immune microenvironments. Sparsely infiltrated tumours exhibited a waning of neoantigen editing during tumour evolution, indicative of historical immune editing, or copy-number loss of previously clonal neoantigens. Immune-infiltrated tumour regions exhibited ongoing immunoediting, with either loss of heterozygosity in human leukocyte antigens or depletion of expressed neoantigens. We identified promoter hypermethylation of genes that contain neoantigenic mutations as an epigenetic mechanism of immunoediting. Our results suggest that the immune microenvironment exerts a strong selection pressure in early-stage, untreated non-small-cell lung cancers that produces multiple routes to immune evasion, which are clinically relevant and forecast poor disease-free survival.

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  • Rachel Rosenthal & Elizabeth Larose Cadieux & Roberto Salgado & Maise Al Bakir & David A. Moore & Crispin T. Hiley & Tom Lund & Miljana Tanić & James L. Reading & Kroopa Joshi & Jake Y. Henry & Ehsan , 2019. "Neoantigen-directed immune escape in lung cancer evolution," Nature, Nature, vol. 567(7749), pages 479-485, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:567:y:2019:i:7749:d:10.1038_s41586-019-1032-7
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1032-7
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