Publication
Title
Chemotherapy-induced ileal crypt apoptosis and the ileal microbiome shape immunosurveillance and prognosis of proximal colon cancer
Author
Abstract
The prognosis of colon cancer (CC) is dictated by tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, including follicular helper T (TFH) cells and the efficacy of chemotherapy-induced immune responses. It remains unclear whether gut microbes contribute to the elicitation of TFH cell-driven responses. Here, we show that the ileal microbiota dictates tolerogenic versus immunogenic cell death of ileal intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) and the accumulation of TFH cells in patients with CC and mice. Suppression of IEC apoptosis led to compromised chemotherapy-induced immunosurveillance against CC in mice. Protective immune responses against CC were associated with residence of Bacteroides fragilis and Erysipelotrichaceae in the ileum. In the presence of these commensals, apoptotic ileal IECs elicited PD-1+ TFH cells in an interleukin-1R1- and interleukin-12-dependent manner. The ileal microbiome governed the efficacy of chemotherapy and PD-1 blockade in CC independently of microsatellite instability. These findings demonstrate that immunogenic ileal apoptosis contributes to the prognosis of chemotherapy-treated CC.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Nature medicine. - London, 1995, currens
Publication
London : 2020
ISSN
1078-8956 [print]
1546-170X [online]
DOI
10.1038/S41591-020-0882-8
Volume/pages
26 :6 , p. 1-32
ISI
000535406400003
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
UAntwerpen
Research group
Project info
Infla-Med: Fundamental and translational research into targets for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
Cell death detection platform.
Publication type
Subject
External links
Web of Science
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