Journal: Cancer immunology research
Article Title: RAS(ON) multi-selective inhibition drives antitumor immunity in preclinical models of NRAS -mutant melanoma
doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-25-0744
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Flow cytometry analysis of melanoma antigen panel for MHC-I, MHC-II and PD-L1 in control, responder, and treatment escape groups. Tumor cells were normalized to SOX10 + cells, n=3/group. (B) Immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining and quantification of MHC-I and PD-L1 expression in control, responder, and treatment escape groups, n=3/group. H-score was used to access MHC-I expression and the percentage of positive cells for PD-L1. (C) Flow cytometry analysis of T cell panel (number of infiltrated CD4 + and CD8 + T cells, activated CD4 + /CD69 + and CD8 + /CD69 + T cells, and memory CD44 + /CD62L − /CD4 + and CD44 + /CD62L − /CD8 + T cells) of control, responder, and treatment escape groups. Cells were normalized to the total number of live cells. (D) Flow cytometry analysis of Foxp3 + CD4 + T cells (Tregs) in control, responder, and treatment escape groups. Tregs were normalized to the total number of CD4 + cells. (E) Immunohistochemistry staining and quantification of CD8, CD69 and PD-1 expression in control, responder, and treatment escape groups. n=3/group. H-score was used to access CD8 and CD69 expressions and the percentage of positive cells for PD1, according to the best fit suggested by the software. (F) Flow cytometry analysis of exhaustion markers (PD-1, TIM-3, LAG-3 and CTLA-4) in control, responder, and treatment escape groups. T cells were normalized to the total number of live cells. Scale bar = 200 μm (G) Multiplex immunofluorescence (IF) staining of control, responder, and treatment escape tumors for DAPI, CD4, CD8, CD11b, CD11c, Ly6G, Ly6C, CD34 and SOX10 expression (H) Scoring of the multiplex IF images of the whole slides. (I) Degrees of clustering of CD4 + or CD8 + T cells versus M-MDSCs (CD11b + Ly6C + Ly6G − ) and PMN-MDSCs (CD11b + Ly6C − Ly6G + ) of control, responder, and treatment escape groups, n=3/group. Cells were normalized by the number of total cells. The graphs are represented as average ± SEM. One-way ANOVA was performed followed by Tukey’s multiple comparisons test: *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001; ****p<0.0001. ns: non-significant; C: control (not treated cells); R: responder; TE: treatment escape.
Article Snippet: For CD4 + and CD8 + T-cell depletion, specific antibodies (anti-CD4, clone YTS191; cat. #BE0003–1; BioXCell, RRID:AB_1107636 and anti-CD8a, clone YTS169.4, cat. #BE0117, BioXCell, RRID:AB_10950145) were used.
Techniques: Flow Cytometry, Control, Immunohistochemistry, Expressing, Staining, Software, Multiplex Assay, Immunofluorescence