Spear, Sarah and Le Saux, Olivia and Mirza, Hasan B. and Iyer, Nayana and Tyson, Katie and Grundland Freile, Fabio and Walton, Josephine B. and Woodman, Chloe and Jarvis, Sheba and Ennis, Darren P. and Aguirre Hernandez, Carmen and Xu, Yuewei and Spiliopoulou, Pavlina and Brenton, James D. and Costa-Pereira, Ana P. and Cook, David P. and Vanderhyden, Barbara C. and Keun, Hector C. and Triantafyllou, Evangelos and Arnold, James N. and McNeish, Iain A. (2024) PTEN loss shapes macrophage dynamics in high grade serous ovarian carcinoma. Cancer Research. ISSN 0008-5472 (In Press)
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High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSC) remains a disease of poor prognosis that is unresponsive to current immune checkpoint inhibitors. Targeting HMOX1hi macrophages may be a potential therapeutic strategy for treating HGSC.AI Topics:
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High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSC) remains a disease of poor prognosis that is unresponsive to current immune checkpoint inhibitors. Although PI3K pathway alterations, such as PTEN loss, are common in HGSC, attempts to target this pathway have been unsuccessful. We hypothesized that aberrant PI3K pathway activation may alter the HGSC immune microenvironment and present a targeting opportunity. Single-cell RNA sequencing identified populations of resident macrophages specific to Pten-null omental tumors in murine models, which were confirmed by flow cytometry. These macrophages derived from peritoneal fluid macrophages and had a unique gene expression program, marked by high expression of the enzyme heme oxygenase-1 (HMOX1). Targeting resident peritoneal macrophages prevented the appearance of HMOX1hi macrophages and reduced tumor growth. Furthermore, direct inhibition of HMOX1 extended survival in vivo. RNA sequencing identified IL33 in Pten-null tumor cells as a likely candidate driver leading to the appearance of HMOX1hi macrophages. Human HGSC tumors also contained HMOX1hi macrophages with a corresponding gene expression program. Moreover, the presence of these macrophages correlated with activated tumoral PI3K/mTOR signaling and poor overall survival in HGSC patients. In contrast, tumors with low numbers of HMOX1hi macrophages were marked by increased adaptive immune response gene expression. These data suggest targeting HMOX1hi macrophages as a potential therapeutic strategy for treating poor prognosis HGSC.
Title | PTEN loss shapes macrophage dynamics in high grade serous ovarian carcinoma |
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Creators | Spear, Sarah and Le Saux, Olivia and Mirza, Hasan B. and Iyer, Nayana and Tyson, Katie and Grundland Freile, Fabio and Walton, Josephine B. and Woodman, Chloe and Jarvis, Sheba and Ennis, Darren P. and Aguirre Hernandez, Carmen and Xu, Yuewei and Spiliopoulou, Pavlina and Brenton, James D. and Costa-Pereira, Ana P. and Cook, David P. and Vanderhyden, Barbara C. and Keun, Hector C. and Triantafyllou, Evangelos and Arnold, James N. and McNeish, Iain A. |
Identification Number | 10.1158/0008-5472.can-23-3890 |
Date | 26 August 2024 |
Divisions | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Cancer Sciences |
Publisher | American Association for Cancer Research |
Additional Information | This work was funded by Ovarian Cancer Action (references P72914, P76567 and PSF687) and Cancer Research UK (grant reference C608/A15973). JNA is supported by grants from Cancer Research UK (DCRPGF\100009) and Cancer Research Institute / Wade F.B. Thompson CLIP grant (CRI3645). Infrastructure support was provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre and the Imperial Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, but this was not used to support mouse experiments. IMcN also receives funding as an NIHR Senior Investigator. OLS is a recipient of grants from La Ligue contre le Cancer, La Fondation Nuovo-Soldati, and Canceropole Lyon Auvergne Rhone-Alpes. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. YX is funded by a joint PhD scholarship between Imperial College London and China Scholarship Council (201808060050). NI is funded by Imperial College London President’s PhD Scholarship. JW was funded by a CRUK PhD studentship. |
URI | https://pub.demo35.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/177 |
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Item Type | Article |
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Depositing User | Unnamed user with email ejo1f20@soton.ac.uk |
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Date Deposited | 11 Jun 2025 16:35 |
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