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SLFN11 captures cancer-immunity interactions associated with platinum sensitivity in high-grade serous ovarian cancer

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submitted on 2024-05-23, 07:55 and posted on 2024-05-23, 09:35 authored by Claudia Winkler, Matthew King, Julie Berthe, Domenico Ferraioli, Anna Garuti, Federica Grillo, Jaime Rodriguez-Canales, Lorenzo Ferrando, Nicolas Chopin, Isabelle Ray-Coquard, Oona Delpuech, Davide Bedognetti, Alberto Ballestrero, Elisabetta Leo, Gabriele Zoppoli

Large independent analyses on cancer cell lines followed by functional studies have identified Schlafen 11 (SLFN11), a putative helicase, as the strongest predictor of sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents (DDAs), including platinum. However, its role as a prognostic biomarker is undefined, partially due to the lack of validated methods to score SLFN11 in human tissues. Here, we implemented a pipeline to quantify SLFN11 in human cancer samples. By analyzing a cohort of high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) specimens before platinum-based chemotherapy treatment, we show, for the first time to our knowledge, that SLFN11 density in both the neoplastic and microenvironmental components was independently associated with favorable outcome. We observed SLFN11 expression in both infiltrating innate and adaptive immune cells, and analyses in a second, independent, cohort revealed that SLFN11 was associated with immune activation in HGSOC. We found that platinum treatments activated immune-related pathways in ovarian cancer cells in an SLFN11-dependent manner, representative of tumor-immune transactivation. Moreover, SLFN11 expression was induced in activated, isolated immune cell subpopulations, hinting that SLFN11 in the immune compartment may be an indicator of immune transactivation. In summary, we propose SLFN11 is a dual biomarker capturing simultaneously interconnected immunological and cancer cell–intrinsic functional dispositions associated with sensitivity to DDA treatment.

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Published in: JCI Insight
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.146098

Funding

Open Access funding provided by the Qatar National Library.

History

Language

  • English

Publisher

American Society for Clinical Investigation

Publication Year

  • 2021

License statement

This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Institution affiliated with

  • Hamad Bin Khalifa University
  • College of Health and Life Sciences - HBKU
  • Sidra Medicine