机构:[1]Cancer Center, Hai’an Hospital Affiliated to Nantong University, Hai’an, China[2]Department of Oncology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China[3]The Central Laboratory, Hai’an Hospital Affiliated to Nantong University, Hai’an, China[4]Cyrus Tang Hematology Center, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
Inhibition of immune checkpoint proteins (checkpoints) has become a promising anti-esophageal cancer strategy. We here tested expressions of immune checkpoints in human esophageal cancers. Our results showed the expressions of many immune checkpoints, including CD28, CD27, CD137L, programmed death 1 (PD-1), T cell immunoglobulin mucin-3 (TIM-3), T cell Ig and ITIM domain (TIGIT), CD160, cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4), CD200, CD137 and CD158, were dysregulated in peripheral T cells of esophageal cancer patients. Further, the expressions of PD-1, TIM-3 and TIGIT were upregulated in tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), which might be associated with TILs exhaustion. Meanwhile, the expressions of PD-1 and TIM-3 on CD4+ T cells were closely associated with clinic pathological features of esophageal cancer patients. These results indicate that co-inhibitory receptors PD-1, TIM-3 and TIGIT may be potential therapeutic oncotargets for esophageal cancer.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (81572345 )
第一作者机构:[1]Cancer Center, Hai’an Hospital Affiliated to Nantong University, Hai’an, China
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通讯机构:[1]Cancer Center, Hai’an Hospital Affiliated to Nantong University, Hai’an, China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Jinhua Xie,Ji Wang,Shouliang Cheng,et al.Expression of immune checkpoints in T cells of esophageal cancer patients[J].ONCOTARGET.2016,7(39):63669-63678.doi:10.18632/oncotarget.11611.
APA:
Jinhua Xie,Ji Wang,Shouliang Cheng,Liangfeng Zheng,Feiyue Ji...&Haoming Ji.(2016).Expression of immune checkpoints in T cells of esophageal cancer patients.ONCOTARGET,7,(39)
MLA:
Jinhua Xie,et al."Expression of immune checkpoints in T cells of esophageal cancer patients".ONCOTARGET 7..39(2016):63669-63678