Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: Cancer cell plasticity defines response to immunotherapy in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-49718-8
Figure Lengend Snippet: a Experimental scheme for the treatment of mice bearing epithelial, mixed, and mesenchymal cSCCs with 200 µg/dose of IgG isotype control, anti-PD-L1, anti-PD-1, anti-CTLA-4, and anti-TIGIT antibodies, and 300 µg/dose of anti-CD8 and anti-NK1.1 antibodies (i.p. three times/week). All treatments started when engrafted tumors reached a volume of 65 mm 3 . b Growth kinetics of IgG control, anti-PD-L1, anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1 + anti-CD8, and anti-PD-L1 + anti-NK-treated epithelial cSCCs ( n = 10 per group). c – f Percentage of c CD8 + T cells, d NK cells, e GzmB + CD8 + T cells, and f GzmB + NK cells in the indicated epithelial cSCCs ( n = 10 per group). g Growth kinetics of IgG control and anti-CTLA-4-treated epithelial cSCCs ( n = 10 per group). h – k Percentage of h CD8 + T cells, i NK cells, j GzmB + CD8 + T cells, and k GzmB + NK cells in IgG control and anti-CTLA-4-treated epithelial cSCCs ( n = 10 per group). l Growth kinetics of IgG control and anti-TIGIT-treated epithelial cSCCs ( n = 10 per group). m – p Percentage of m CD8 + T cells ( n = 10 per group), n NK cells ( n = 10 per group), o GzmB + CD8 + T cells ( n = 7 per group), and p GzmB + NK cells ( n = 7 per group) in IgG control and anti-TIGIT-treated epithelial cSCCs. q – s Percentage of GFP + EpCAM + and GFP + EpCAM − cancer cells in the indicated epithelial cSCCs ( n = 10 per group). All data are represented as the mean ± SD, and n values indicate independent tumors. P values are determined by two-way ANOVA test ( b , g , l ), one-way ANOVA with Dunnett’s multiple comparison test ( c – f , q ), and unpaired two-sided Student’s t -test ( h – k , m – p , r , s ). ns > 0.05: not significant. See Supplementary Fig. for the gating strategy ( c – f, h – k, m – s ). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
Article Snippet: When tumors generated reached a volume of 65 mm 3 (5 × 5 mm), mice were randomly assigned to a control or ICB treatment group and treated intraperitoneally three times per week with a 200 μg/dose of mouse IgG2b isotype control (clone MPC-11, BioXCell, BE0086), polyclonal rat IgG isotype control (BE0094), anti-PD-L1 (clone 10F.9G2, BioXCell, BE0101), anti-PD-1 (clone RMP1-14, BioXCell, BE0146), anti-CTLA-4 (clone UC10-4F10-11, BioXCell, BE0032), and anti-TIGIT (clone 1G9, BioXCell, BE0274) antibodies for 21–28 days.
Techniques: Control, Comparison