Journal: Cancer Science
Article Title: EGFR inhibition in EGFR ‐mutant lung cancer cells perturbs innate immune signaling pathways in the tumor microenvironment
doi: 10.1111/cas.15701
Figure Lengend Snippet: EGFR‐TKIs accelerate the release of the cell‐free DNA activating type I IFN response in a STING‐dependent manner. (A) EGFR‐mutant tumor cells were treated with either osimertinib (EGFR‐TKI) or paclitaxel. Data are presented as the mean ± SEM of technical triplicates from at least two independent experiments. (B) cfDNA concentrations in the supernatant were measured as described in Materials and Methods. Data are presented as the mean ± SEM of technical triplicates from at least two independent experiments. (C) THP‐1‐Dual and THP‐1‐Dual STING‐knockout (KO) cells were cultured either with LPS (500 ng/ml), IFNa2a (10,000 U/ml), tumor‐derived cfDNA (PC9 and H1975 cfDNA)/lipofectamine, or lipofectamine alone. IRF (left) and NF‐κB (right) activities were analyzed as described in Materials and Methods. (D) PMA‐differentiated THP‐1 monocytes were pretreated either with lipofectamine, poly(dA:dT) (100 ng/ml), tumor‐derived cfDNA (PC9) (100 ng/ml)/lipofectamine, or IFNa2a (20,000 U/ml) followed by IFN‐γ stimulation (100 ng/ml). (E) Expression levels of CXCL9 and CXCL10 were analyzed using flow cytometry. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, **** p < 0.0001, * q < 0.01. ns, not significant.
Article Snippet: The lung cancer cell line, PC9, was obtained from the European Collection of Authenticated Cell Cultures.
Techniques: Mutagenesis, Knock-Out, Cell Culture, Derivative Assay, Expressing, Flow Cytometry