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ArticleThe Journal of experimental medicine2025

Hypoxia is linked to acquired resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors in lung cancer.

Camila Robles-Oteíza, Katherine Hastings, Jungmin Choi, Isabelle Sirois, Arvind Ravi, Francisco Expósito, Fernando de Miguel, James R Knight, Francesc López-Giráldez, Hyejin Choi and 9 more

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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19 authors.

Camila Robles-OteízaDepartment of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7157-9572
Katherine HastingsYale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3319-9100
Jungmin ChoiDepartment of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8614-0973
Isabelle SiroisCHU Sainte-Justine Research Center , Montreal, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6929-1761
Arvind RaviBroad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard , Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2461-3533
Francisco ExpósitoYale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5406-0768
Fernando de MiguelYale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5847-9371
James R KnightYale Center for Genome Analysis, Yale University , New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1166-0437
Francesc López-GiráldezYale Center for Genome Analysis, Yale University , New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7476-9822
Hyejin ChoiLudwig Collaborative and Swim Across America Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4884-2747
Nicholas D SocciMarie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center , New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8254-6925
Taha MerghoubLudwig Collaborative and Swim Across America Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1518-5111
Mark AwadLowe Center for Thoracic Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute , Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0928-5244
Gad GetzBroad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard , Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0936-0753
Justin GainorCenter for Thoracic Cancers, Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8697-4081
Matthew D HellmannDepartment of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2670-9777
Étienne CaronCHU Sainte-Justine Research Center , Montreal, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2770-6970
Susan M KaechNOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Salk Institute , La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1674-1420
Katerina PolitiYale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine , New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6064-4527

Funding

The Patient-Reported Outcomes, Community-Engagement and Language (PRO-CEL) CoreP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · 1985 to 2025
$88.4M
Physician Scientist Training in Cancer ResearchT32CA009172 · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · 1985 to 2025
$4.6M
Understanding and Overcoming Resistance to Cancer Immunotherapy Due to Defective Antigen PresentationR01CA230275 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Susan M Kaech, KATERINA Abigail POLITI · 2022 to 2023
$1.3M
Yale Cancer Biology Training GrantT32CA193200 · YALE UNIVERSITY · 2025 to 2025
$318k
Investigating Immune Responses to Neoantigen Cancer Vaccines using In Vivo Functionalized LineageK00CA245819 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · 2023 to 2025
$291k
Cancer Bioinformatics: Data analysis and method development for the Yale Cancer CenterR50CA265359 · YALE UNIVERSITY · 2025 to 2025
$140k
American Association for Cancer ResearchAmerican Cancer Society SU2C-AACR-DT17-15Mark Foundation For Cancer Research 19-029-MIANational Institute of Health T32 CA193200-01A1National Research Foundation of Korea 2022R1A4A2000827NCI NIH HHS F32 CA210516NCI NIH HHS F99 CA245819NCI NIH HHS K00 CA245819NCI NIH HHS K99 CA245897NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NCI NIH HHS R01 CA195720NCI NIH HHS R01 CA230275NCI NIH HHS R50 CA265359NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009172NCI NIH HHS T32 CA193200Stand Up To Cancer
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the established use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), only a subset of patients benefit from treatment and ∼50% of patients whose tumors respond eventually develop acquired resistance (AR). To identify novel drivers of AR, we generated murine Msh2 knock-out (KO) lung tumors that initially responded but eventually developed AR to anti-PD-1, alone or in combination with anti-CTLA-4. Resistant tumors harbored decreased infiltrating T cells and reduced cancer cell-intrinsic MHC-I and MHC-II levels, yet remained responsive to IFNγ. Resistant tumors contained extensive regions of hypoxia, and a hypoxia signature derived from single-cell transcriptional profiling of resistant cancer cells was associated with decreased progression-free survival in a cohort of NSCLC patients treated with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy. Targeting hypoxic tumor regions using a hypoxia-activated pro-drug delayed AR to ICIs in murine Msh2 KO tumors. Thus, this work provides a rationale for targeting tumor metabolic features, such as hypoxia, in combination with immune checkpoint inhibition.

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Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungDrug Resistance, NeoplasmImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsLung NeoplasmsAnimalsB7-H1 AntigenCell Line, TumorCTLA-4 AntigenHumansHypoxiaMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutMutS Homolog 2 ProteinProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorB7-H1 AntigenCTLA-4 AntigenImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsMutS Homolog 2 ProteinProgrammed Cell Death 1 Receptor

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