Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Immunoprophylactic and immunotherapeutic control of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer

  • Aitziber Buqué
  • , Norma Bloy
  • , Maria Perez-Lanzón
  • , Kristina Iribarren
  • , Juliette Humeau
  • , Jonathan G. Pol
  • , Sarah Levesque
  • , Laura Mondragon
  • , Takahiro Yamazaki
  • , Ai Sato
  • , Fernando Aranda
  • , Sylvère Durand
  • , Alexandre Boissonnas
  • , Jitka Fucikova
  • , Laura Senovilla
  • , David Enot
  • , Michal Hensler
  • , Margerie Kremer
  • , Gautier Stoll
  • , Yang Hu
  • Chiara Massa, Silvia C. Formenti, Barbara Seliger, Olivier Elemento, Radek Spisek, Fabrice André, Laurence Zitvogel, Suzette Delaloge, Guido Kroemer, Lorenzo Galluzzi
  • Cornell University
  • Université Paris Cité
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • Sorbonne Université
  • Sotio
  • Charles University
  • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus
  • Center of Clinical Investigations in Biotherapies of Cancer (CICBT)
  • Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris
  • Institute of Blood Transfusion,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences& Peking Union Medical College
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Weill Cornell Medical College

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

122 Scopus citations

Abstract

Hormone receptor (HR)+ breast cancer (BC) causes most BC-related deaths, calling for improved therapeutic approaches. Despite expectations, immune checkpoint blockers (ICBs) are poorly active in patients with HR+ BC, in part reflecting the lack of preclinical models that recapitulate disease progression in immunocompetent hosts. We demonstrate that mammary tumors driven by medroxyprogesterone acetate (M) and 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (D) recapitulate several key features of human luminal B HR+HER2 BC, including limited immune infiltration and poor sensitivity to ICBs. M/D-driven oncogenesis is accelerated by immune defects, demonstrating that M/D-driven tumors are under immunosurveillance. Safe nutritional measures including nicotinamide (NAM) supplementation efficiently delay M/D-driven oncogenesis by reactivating immunosurveillance. NAM also mediates immunotherapeutic effects against established M/D-driven and transplantable BC, largely reflecting increased type I interferon secretion by malignant cells and direct stimulation of immune effector cells. Our findings identify NAM as a potential strategy for the prevention and treatment of HR+ BC.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3819
Pages (from-to)3819
JournalNature Communications
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 30 2020
Externally publishedYes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • 9,10-Dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene
  • Animals
  • Breast Neoplasms/immunology
  • Carcinogenesis/drug effects
  • Disease Progression
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunotherapy/methods
  • Interferon Type I/immunology
  • Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/chemically induced
  • Medroxyprogesterone Acetate
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Knockout
  • Niacinamide/administration & dosage
  • Receptor, ErbB-2/immunology
  • Survival Analysis

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Immunoprophylactic and immunotherapeutic control of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this