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Immunohistochemical and Image Analysis-based Study Demonstrate that Several Immune Checkpoints are Co-expressed in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Tumors
Journal of Thoracic Oncology ( IF 21.0 ) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2018.03.002 Edwin Roger Parra , Pamela Villalobos , Jiexin Zhang , Carmen Behrens , Barbara Mino , Stephen Swisher , Boris Sepesi , Annika Weissferdt , Neda Kalhor , John Victor Heymach , Cesar Moran , Jianjun Zhang , Jack Lee , Jaime Rodriguez-Canales , Don Gibbons , Ignacio I. Wistuba
Journal of Thoracic Oncology ( IF 21.0 ) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2018.03.002 Edwin Roger Parra , Pamela Villalobos , Jiexin Zhang , Carmen Behrens , Barbara Mino , Stephen Swisher , Boris Sepesi , Annika Weissferdt , Neda Kalhor , John Victor Heymach , Cesar Moran , Jianjun Zhang , Jack Lee , Jaime Rodriguez-Canales , Don Gibbons , Ignacio I. Wistuba
Introduction: The understanding of immune checkpoint molecules' co‐expression in non–small cell lung carcinoma (NCLC) is important to potentially design combinatorial immunotherapy approaches. Methods: We studied 225 formalin‐fixed, paraffin‐embedded tumor tissues from stage I‐III NCLCs — 142 adenocarcinomas (ADCs) and 83 squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) — placed in tissue microarrays. Nine immune checkpoint markers were evaluated; four (programmed death ligand 1 [PD‐L1], B7‐H3, B7‐H4, and indoleamine 2,3‐dioxygenase 1 [IDO‐1]) expressed predominantly in malignant cells (MCs) and five (inducible T cell costimulator, V‐set immunoregulatory receptor, T‐cell immunoglobulin mucin family member 3, lymphocyte activating 3, and OX40) expressed mostly in stromal tumor‐associated inflammatory cells (TAICs). All markers were examined using a quantitative image analysis and correlated with clinicopathologic features, TAICs, and molecular characteristics. Results: Using above the median value as positive expression in MCs and high density of TAICs expressing those markers, we identified higher expression of immune checkpoints in SCC than ADC. Common simultaneous expression by MCs was PD‐L1 + B7‐H3 + IDO‐1 in ADC and PD‐L1 + B7‐H3, or B7‐H3 + B7‐H4, in SCC. TAICs expressing checkpoint were significantly higher in current smokers than in never smokers. Almost all the immune checkpoint markers showed positive correlation with TAICs expressing inflammatory cell markers. KRAS‐mutant ADC specimens showed higher expression of PD‐L1 in MCs and of B7‐H3, T‐cell immunoglobulin mucin family member 3, and IDO‐1 in TAICs than wild type. Kaplan‐Meier survival curves showed worse prognosis in ADC patients with higher B7‐H4 expression by MCs. Conclusions: We found frequent immunohistochemical co‐expression of immune checkpoints in surgically resected NCLC tumors and correlated with tumor histology, smoking history, tumor size, and the density of inflammatory cells and tumor mutational status.
更新日期：2018-06-01
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