[HTML][HTML] Immunogenomic profiling determines responses to combined PARP and PD-1 inhibition in ovarian cancer

A Färkkilä, DC Gulhan, J Casado, CA Jacobson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Nature communications, 2020nature.com
Combined PARP and immune checkpoint inhibition has yielded encouraging results in
ovarian cancer, but predictive biomarkers are lacking. We performed immunogenomic
profiling and highly multiplexed single-cell imaging on tumor samples from patients enrolled
in a Phase I/II trial of niraparib and pembrolizumab in ovarian cancer (NCT02657889). We
identify two determinants of response; mutational signature 3 reflecting defective
homologous recombination DNA repair, and positive immune score as a surrogate of …
Abstract
Combined PARP and immune checkpoint inhibition has yielded encouraging results in ovarian cancer, but predictive biomarkers are lacking. We performed immunogenomic profiling and highly multiplexed single-cell imaging on tumor samples from patients enrolled in a Phase I/II trial of niraparib and pembrolizumab in ovarian cancer (NCT02657889). We identify two determinants of response; mutational signature 3 reflecting defective homologous recombination DNA repair, and positive immune score as a surrogate of interferon-primed exhausted CD8 + T-cells in the tumor microenvironment. Presence of one or both features associates with an improved outcome while concurrent absence yields no responses. Single-cell spatial analysis reveals prominent interactions of exhausted CD8 + T-cells and PD-L1 + macrophages and PD-L1 + tumor cells as mechanistic determinants of response. Furthermore, spatial analysis of two extreme responders shows differential clustering of exhausted CD8 + T-cells with PD-L1 + macrophages in the first, and exhausted CD8 + T-cells with cancer cells harboring genomic PD-L1 and PD-L2 amplification in the second.
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