TLR2 activation promotes tumour growth and associates with patient survival and chemotherapy response in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has an extremely poor prognosis, and is plagued by a paucity of targeted treatment options and tumour resistance to chemotherapeutics. The causal link between chronic inflammation and PDAC suggests that molecular regulators of the immune system promote disease...

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Vydáno v:Oncogene Ročník 40; číslo 41; s. 6007 - 6022
Hlavní autoři: Lundy, Joanne, Gearing, Linden J., Gao, Hugh, West, Alison C., McLeod, Louise, Deswaerte, Virginie, Yu, Liang, Porazinski, Sean, Pajic, Marina, Hertzog, Paul J., Croagh, Daniel, Jenkins, Brendan J.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London Nature Publishing Group UK 14.10.2021
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ISSN:0950-9232, 1476-5594, 1476-5594
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Shrnutí:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has an extremely poor prognosis, and is plagued by a paucity of targeted treatment options and tumour resistance to chemotherapeutics. The causal link between chronic inflammation and PDAC suggests that molecular regulators of the immune system promote disease pathogenesis and/or therapeutic resistance, yet their identity is unclear. Here, we couple endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration, which captures tumour biopsies from all stages, with whole transcriptome profiling of PDAC patient primary tumours to reveal enrichment of the innate immune Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) molecular pathway. Augmented TLR2 expression associated with a 4-gene “TLR2 activation” signature, and was prognostic for survival and predictive for gemcitabine-based chemoresistance. Furthermore, antibody-mediated anti-TLR2 therapy suppressed the growth of human PDAC tumour xenografts, independent of a functional immune system. Our results support TLR2-based therapeutic targeting for precision medicine in PDAC, with further clinical utility that TLR2 activation is prognostic and predictive for chemoresponsiveness.
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ISSN:0950-9232
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1476-5594
DOI:10.1038/s41388-021-01992-2