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CHAPTER TEN
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Nucleic acid biomarker technology for cancer immunotherapy
Sashana Dixon, Alice Tran, Matthew Schrier, and Malav Trivedi
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States
Contents
1. Introduction 331
2. NGS and cancer 332
2.1 Precision medicine in cancer treatment: NGS-guided immunotherapy 333
2.2 Genetic drivers of tumor immune responsiveness 334
2.3 Genetics of the host 336
2.4 CTLA4 polymorphisms 337
2.5 CCR5 and CXCR3 polymorphisms 337
2.6 CAR T cell therapy and NGS 339
3. Transcriptional signatures 339
3.1 Transcriptional signatures: Responsiveness to IL2-based therapy 340
3.2 Transcriptional signatures: Responsiveness to checkpoint inhibitors 340
3.3 Roles of DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation as epigenetic predictors
of ICB response 341
4. Single cell 343
5. CRISPR based 344
6. Current challenges in immunogenomics 345
7. Conclusion 345
Acknowledgment 346 References 346
1. Introduction
Cancer cells present with genetic mutations and epigenetic modifications that allow them to evade the immune system [1]. Such cellular complexities also contribute to increased tumor heterogeneity resulting in less effective immunotherapeutic approaches as the disease progresses [2]. However, recent studies identifying cellular and molecular tumor immunology over the past two decades have enabled much better identification of new ways to manipulate the immune response against cancer to coun­teract immunosuppressive mechanisms that evolve during tumor progression [3]. This
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has led to rapid expansion of modern cancer immunotherapy with dramatic improve­ment in patient survival and sustained remission for otherwise refractory malignancies. Advanced malignancies, such as stage IV melanoma, lung cancer, and relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), have shown dramatic improvements in overall sur­vival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), and complete response (CR) with the intro­duction of therapies such as immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI), bispecific antibodies, and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells. However, a significant limitation in these current treatment modalities is an irregularity in clinical response, and patients tend to respond to therapies, differently from one another. Furthermore, this unpredictability also leads to significant side effects, financial costs, and health care burden, but more importantly contributes to discrepancies and unsatisfactory clinical benefit in the majority of treated patients. This highlights the special need for a predictive biomarker in immuno-oncology and emphasizes that assessing individual patient cancer characteristics is vital to creating a treatment plan with the greatest effectivity possible [4]. Although such ongoing studies and trials investigate the use of multiple biomarkers predictive of patient response or harm, none of these are comprehensive in predicting potential benefit. This unmet need for validated biomarkers is largely secondary to a prohibitive complexity within tumor parenchyma and the microenvironment, dynamic clonal and proteomic changes to therapy, heterogenous host immune defects, and varied standardization among sample preparation and reporting. Herein, we discuss current advantages of nucleic acid predictive biomarkers with recent advances in molecular profiling of circu­lating tumor cells and host cells using next-generation sequencing which has dramatically expanded the pool of potentially useful predictive biomarkers. Overall, as immunother­apy moves toward personalized medicine, a composite panel of both genomic and pro­teomic biomarkers will have enormous utility in therapeutic decision-making.
2. NGS and cancer
New developments in next-generation sequencing (NGS) and bioinformatics offers a promising new avenue of treatment for patients who are unresponsive to con­ventional treatment approaches. One recent study found that immunotherapy in breast cancer patients unresponsive to chemotherapy was effective, for example, resulting in the complete disappearance of the patients’ tumors [5]. NGS technology has also been used to identify a significant amount of genomic data from patients with acute myeloid leu­kemia, information that was subsequently expanded to multiple solid tumors in The Can­cer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project [6, 7]. The NGS data were then used to develop a molecular classification system for cancers like glioblastoma and lung cancer to comple­ment more conventional histology-based classification.
Profiles acquired from the NGS analysis of various cancers has led to the increasingly
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widespread use of targeted therapy designed to identify specific mutations in signaling pathways in order to block them with drugs, be they existing or newly developed.
As a form of high-throughput parallel sequencing, NGS technology allows scientists to collect a large amount of information from genomes. Shortly after the human genome project was completed, 33 types of cancer were sequenced in order to identify the muta­tions specific to each kind along with their copy number variations. The gathered infor­mation was made public via the TCGA Project and the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) [8, 9]. Along with RNA-seq, the NGS approach to chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP-seq) has analyzed this data in order to determine how transcription-regulated gene expression is triggered and expressed in cancer [10].
The integration of various datasets like Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC) and SNP500 from NGS techniques used to profile cancer gene expression and epigenome, cancer genetic sequence, and the ways in which cancer changes in response to drugs or small molecules, promotes rational drug design that targets multiple different aspects of cancer biology. Other important datasets include NCI-60 and Cel­lMinerCDB, both resources that offer comprehensive information about cancer muta­tion, genomewide RNA expression, drug interaction data, and enzyme activity for a total of around 1000 cell lines [11, 12]. One recent study used these databases to advance computation tools designed to predict the responses of drug combinations in cancer treatment—important information given the lack of experimental data in the area
[13]. This highlights the importance of public NGS datasets as well as high-throughput
NGS methods themselves, to the study and understanding of cancer and its extensive molecular complexities when determining new precision medicine and therapies.
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2.1 Precision medicine in cancer treatment: NGS-guided immunotherapy
In addition to providing insight about cancer, NGS techniques can also provide impor­tant information about the immune system and how it reacts to the disease [14]. Immu­notherapy is a treatment strategy used to potentiate and restore the body’s immune system to allow it to recognize, remove, and attack cancer cells, a functionality that is missing once the disease takes hold [15]. When combined with other conventional cancer treat­ments like radiotherapy, which damages cancer cells, immunotherapy can significantly improve treatment effectivity [16–18]. NGS-guided immunotherapy can also be used in the case of surgery to remove cancerous growths, a process that has a chance of all­owing the cancer cells that remain into the bloodstream after the surgery is completed
[19]. It is hypothesized that using immunotherapy after surgery might be an effective
strategy to destroy the remaining cancer cells [20].
One challenge that the application of immunotherapy in a widespread clinical setting faces is the sometimes inconsistent results of the therapy [21]. More specifically,
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immunotherapy doesn’t yield the same results for all patients, perhaps due to the hetero­geneity in both cancer cells and T cells as well as the complicated interactions between them in the microenvironment of the tumor [22]. In response to this concern, a new field in cancer research known as immunogenomics seeks to utilize NGS to obtain the geno­mic profile of both immune cells and cancer cells. This is made easier thanks to recent advancements in ChIP-seq and single-cell RNA-seq, improvements that promise to uncover the transcriptomic and epigenetic heterogeneity of cancer cells at the single-cell level [23, 24]. These genomic profiles can improve the efficiency of immunotherapy including the administration cytokines for systemic modulation of the patient’s immune system [25]. In addition to cytokines, whose role has been limited in cancer treatment due to their role as both immune response repressors and activators, monoclonal antibodies have been successfully used as targeted therapy to block certain abnormal proteins that are expressed by cancer cells [26–28].
The idea of immune system manipulation to inhibit cancer growth or elicit tumor rejection is not a new one. The concept was one that was well explored a century ago, when William Coley discovered that injecting certain bacterial substances into a patient’s body could lead to significant tumor regression [29]. This was the beginning of immunology, although it wouldn’t be such named until the 1990s, and some of the first rigorous clinical trials designed to investigate cytokines that were pro­inflammatory and their impact upon the immune system were conducted [30]. These trials found that while provoking antigen-specifical cellular responses using the cytokines interferon-(IF) and interleukin-(IL)-2 was very effective, the process was rarely followed by a significant instance of tumor rejection [31]. This indicated that a piece of the puzzle was still missing, and it seems as though NGS might be the solution.
It should be noted that NGS serves an important role in quantifying as well as iden­tifying host immune response biomarkers in FFPE (formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded) tumor specimens. It can help characterize the immunologic tumor microenvironment in order to allow clinicians a stable base upon which to base therapeutic decisions. This con­cept has been the subject of recent research published in The Journal of Molecular Diagnosis. The study sought to determine the utility of the assay as it pertains to clinical scenarios while utilizing a standardized NGS workflow to make the sequencing process as con­trolled and efficient as possible.
2.2 Genetic drivers of tumor immune responsiveness
While the transcriptional profile of the whole tumor tissue is highly informative, it cannot precisely indicate the source of the immune genes provide the immune-favorable cancer phenotype. Development of the desirable immune phenotype in tumor is collectively provided by underlying cancer cells, stromal cells, and different subsets of immune cells interacting with each other [32, 33]. For example, Zeimet et al. reported that number of
T cells in ovarian cancer correlated with IRF1 expression in the tumor; whereas only the
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cancer cells in the tumor stained positively for IRF1, and IRF1 was not all expressed by stromal cells [34]. Similarly, cancer cells that expresses HLA class II molecules IRF1 in turn is correlated with the levels of CD8 T cells [35], and cultured tumor cells can secrete chemokines to recruit T cells [36]. It is important to note that, it is not clear from these studies whether the cancer cells drive these immune signatures or whether this immune system responses are a result of the release of IFN-γ and other proinflammatory molecules by activated T cells against cancer cells [37]. Based on emerging evidence, it is believed that the origin of the immune signature in some tumors is a complex, non-linear, multi­factorial and dynamic in vivo phenomenon, but also governed by the cancer cells’ inher­ent biology. For example, a study identified a list of 968 genes (genomic delegates) that display correlation between copy number and gene expression in melanoma tumor cell lines which strongly correlated with gene expression profile of the parental tumor metas­tases [38]. These genomic delegates were segregated into two different categories when the tumor metastases were reanalyzed. While one class had transcripts previously associ­ated to more aggressive cancer [39–41], the second class had genes associated with mel­anoma signaling and classically associated with better prognosis and likelihood to respond to Immunotherapy [33, 42]. Similar previous study in breast cancer cells has showed that copy number landscape associated with enriched ICR genes have favorable prognosis, suggesting the driving role of cancer-cell genetics in determining the in vivo immune-phenotype [43]. Another study compared expression of genes for melanoma metastases and when segregated these genes based on the presence or absence of BRAF and NRAS mutations, they observed 112 BRAF-specific transcripts classified in two dif­ferent immune phenotypes (Th-1 and Th-17) [44]. This observation indicates that pathways related to driver oncogenes can also develop cancer phenotype that is not immune-supportive. Recently, it has been shown that IFN-α responsiveness of periph­eral blood mononuclear cells is impaired by overexpression of NOS, with underlying genomic amplification of NOS1 locus within segment 12q22-24. In the same study with 113 metastatic melanoma patients, the baseline expression of NOS1 in tumor metastases was negatively correlated with adoptive cell therapy response linking genetic of tumors to specific immune-dysfunctions [45], building upon other studies that indicate that the immune-favorable cancer phenotype is driven by tumor genetics. Public database such as TCGA melanoma datasets have been analyzed in numerous studies to identify defined sets of genes, and one of these studies defined sets of co-regulated immune genes that are associated with prolonged survival [46]. Another study identified that CXCL13 was cor­related with B, T follicular helper, T helper 1, and cytotoxic T cells, and patients who had CXCL13 deletions experienced a shorter but disease-free survival [39]. Such correlation between CXCL13, T follicular helper cells and patient prognosis is also found in breast cancer [47, 48]. In a separate study, such correlation was measured for gain of TNF, IFN, IL, and TGF family genes in colorectal cancer [49]. The highest risk of relapse was
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associated with deletion of IL15, IL21, and IL2. Moreover, IL-15 levels correlated with cytotoxic T, activated T/NK, T helper 1, and memory T cells levels and significantly higher levels of proliferating T and B cells in patients with high level of IL15 [49]. Hoadley et al., conducted a deep analysis of TCGA genomic and proteomic database with 12 different cancer types, and reported a pan-cancer genomic classification with several subtypes with specific molecular signatures [50]. TP53 alteration, amplification and over­expression of immune genes were some of the few underlying characteristics for lung squamous, head and neck, and a subset of bladder cancers. Moreover, the study also emphasized the prognostic value of immune signatures of cancers originating from dif­ferent tissues, since the underlying pathways like PD-1 and CTLA4 which are related to T cell activity strongly correlated to increased OS [50]. Overall, all these studies highlight the analogies between prognostic and predictive cancer genome signatures and the impli­cation for cancer immunotherapy.
Recent studies have reported a direct correlation between somatic mutations and response to immunotherapy via exome-wide study of melanoma metastases in the con­text of anti-CTLA4 therapy. For example, Snyder et al. reported a significant correlation between the mutational load with increased OS [51]. They also reported the set of mutated antigens mostly common in all responder patients, and this signature set could precisely predict the prolonged survival in these patients in response to CTLA-4 blockade
[51]. It is important to note that this study also reinforced the findings that epitopes with
mutation can still be recognized by T cells and can also be used for therapeutic targeting
[52, 53]. Lastly, it also indicates that genetic mutations in proteins currently not directly
involved or implicated in cancer progression might still play a contributing role and are called a passenger mutations since they may still contribute towards final cancer pheno­type [51]. However, it is important to note that despite such great progress in this field, it is still not clear how and to what extent do such genomic alterations in tumor as well as immune system genes may have an overall impact on tumor responsiveness.
2.3 Genetics of the host
Over 85 different loci contribute to susceptibility to autoimmune diseases as identified by several different Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) [54]. ADA2 [55], PLCG2
[56, 57], HOIL1 [58], and PIK3CD [59] are few of the critical genes for immune system
homeostasis identified via studies characterizing inherited immune-related diseases through Next-gen exome sequencing. However, their contribution in pathology of can­cer is only being understood recently [60]. Orru and coworkers reported the relationship between genetic makeup and variability of immune-cell populations by studying levels of immune-cell population (i.e., 272 immune traits) in 1500 individuals. Interestingly, the strongest heritability estimates were identified in T regulatory cells with the strongest association observed for CD8A/CD8B, HLAs, IL2RA, NCAM1, CD4, TNFS13B,
and SLFN clusters. Few of these variants also overlapped with those identified by GWAS
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in auto-immunity disease [60]. Overall, this is highly significant, since it indicates that individuals have differences in stable baseline immune-cells traits and these can play a role in responding to immune perturbations [61]. For example, several GWAS studies have identified that IL28B gene is strongly correlated with response to IFN-α in chronic hep­atitis C (HCV) infection [62–64], promoting the use of IFN-α as the gold standard for the treatment of HCV infection. However, such strong GWAS studies at such a larger scale are still not conducted investigating cancer immunotherapy, since, immunotherapy was only recently approved by the FDA. Hence, the results, correlative analysis and predictive biomarker identification mostly rely on gathering evidence from a few studies with smaller sample sizes, which introduce numerous confounders. Hence, researchers have focused on studying specific genes such as CTLA4, IRF5, and CCR5 and HLAs. For example, one study described a significant association between HLA-DRB1*15, Cw6, Cw7, and B44 and survival in melanoma patients treated with adjuvant IFN-α (P ¼ 0.028, 0.029, 0.030, and 0.040, respectively) [65, 66]. For the purpose of the current chapter, we have described studies focused on CTLA4 and CCR5 polymorphisms below.
2.4 CTLA4 polymorphisms
CTLA4 shapes the T cell response during their initial response to antigen exposure, and is an important modulator for immune tolerance. It also plays an important role in regu­lating T-cell-mediated antitumor immune response. CTLA-4 is expressed by activated CD8 + effector T cells, but it is critical in regulating CD4 + T cells via downregulation of helper T-cell function as well as upregulation of regulatory T-cell immunosuppressive activity [67, 68]. Three studies focused on anti-CTLA4 mAbs treatment of individuals with metastatic melanoma identified 12 CTLA4 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) [69–71], however the comparison between the different studies is overall incon­clusive due to insufficient data as well as lack of consistency in analytical assessment or underlying specific SNPs. A summary of these studies is reported in Table 1.
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2.5 CCR5 and CXCR3 polymorphisms
Activated Th-1, cytotoxic T, and NK cells, all express the CC chemokine receptor C (CCR5) together with CXC chemokine receptor 3 (CXCR3). Ligands acting on CXCR3 and CCR5 recruit activated T lymphocytes and support immune-mediated tumor rejection [42, 72–75]. In contrast, IL-2 induces inflammation within tumors and can lead to secretion of CXCR3 and CCR5 ligands ([76, 77],p.5;[72, 78, 79]). Hence, it is believed that any polymorphisms and/or elevated expression and/or activa­tion of CXCR3 and CCR5 can affect chemokine receptor expression subsequently lead­ing to immune-mediated tumor rejection. The CCR5Δ32 mutation/polymorphism
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Table 1 Response to immunotherapy in association with CTLA-4 SNPs.
Tested CTLA4
References
SNPs Setting Findings
Hamid et al. [70] rs11571317
rs3087243 rs4553808 rs1863800
Breunis et al. [69] rs4553808
rs11571317 rs231775 rs5742909 rs7565213 rs733618
Queirolo et al.
[71]
rs5742909 rs231775 rs3087243 rs4553808 rs11571317 rs11571316
Metastatic Melanoma treated with Ipilimumab (N ¼ 55–57)
Metastatic melanoma treated with ipilimumab (N ¼ 152)
Metastatic melanoma treated with ipilimumab or tremelimumab (N ¼
14)
No significant association, but a significant trend was observed
rs4553808 (1660 G vs A allele); rs11571317 (657 T vs G allele), and rs231775 (49 A vs G allele) were associated with the overall response
rs11571316 was associated with clinical benefit (1577 G/A vs G/G; P value: 0.041); a trend was observed for rs3087243 (CT60 G/A vs G/G; P value: 0.072); both polymorphisms were associated with overall survival (P value: <0.006)
consists of a 32-base deletion resulting in a protein that is not expressed on the surface of the cells. While homozygous carriers of this mutation are resistant to HIV-1 [77]; in con­trast, in the field of immunotherapy, reports focusing on metastatic melanoma are con­flicting. Few studies report decreased survival of patients carrying this polymorphism (either in heterozygous or homozygous state) when treated with immunotherapy or immunochemotherapy ([80], p. 5); however, few other studies have found no association between CCR5Δ32 or CCR5 rs1799987 polymorphisms and responsiveness to ipilimumab [70]. One recent study has also reported the association of CCR5Δ32 and CXCR3 rs2280964 polymorphism in the context of metastatic melanoma patients treated with adoptive cell therapy and high dose IL-2 [81]. Recent study also reported that down-regulation of CXCR3 and CCR5 receptor and related gene expression in lymphocytes due presence of CCR5Δ32 mutation, strongly correlated with the degree of response in these individuals ([82],p.3)(P< 0.001). The TIL migration to the tumor following IL-2 administration does not follow a linear kinetic [83] but the levels of CCR5 and CXCR3 ligands (e.g., CCL3, CCL4, CXCL9, CXCL10 and CXCL11) increase immediately after IL-2 administration [78]. Other treatments (e.g., combination of immunochemotherapy ([80], p. 5), or vaccine therapy), may also induce a proportional induction of the CXCR3 and CCR5 ligands following treatment similar to the admin­istration of high-dose IL-2, resulting in different kinetic modulation of T cells. Although ATCT studies in mouse models have reported a key role of upregulated CCR5 levels in
TILs towards mediating tumor rejection, a maximal expression of CCR5 (and CXCR3)
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by TILs is not a critical factor in ATCT, and hence the complete role of ATCT in immu­notherapy needs to be further investigated
2.6 CAR T cell therapy and NGS
The immune system is stimulated to produce antibodies inside the body when vaccines for immunotherapy are administered, whereas in ATCT, the T cells are isolated from the body, multiplied and then stimulated outside of the body before they are injected back to the patient [84]. One of the types of ATCT, with heightened T cell immune response is accomplished by genetic modification of T cells with CAR-T cells [85]. The T cells are altered outside of the body to express a novel protein or a CAR which is directed to the antigen expressed on the cancer cell surface. This CAR protein fused with an extracel­lular single-chain fragment variable monoclonal antibody-derived domain, with an intra­cellular TCR-derived domain, resulting in heightened T cell antigen recognition and binding [86]. These modified T cells when injected into the patients, recognize surface antigen specific on the surface of cancer cells or secreted from the cancer cells, and attacks the tumor. Clinical trials of CAR T cell therapy show high effectiveness in leukemia patients and are in trials for other cancer types [87, 88]. However, the limited information on cancer-specific target antigens is a major challenge similar to any other immunother­apy. Moreover, the T cell heterogeneity resulting from differences in genomic sequences of TCRs also limits the CAR T cell immunotherapy. However, advances in technology such as single-cell RNA-seq has allowed to understand the T cell heterogeneity and TCR repertoire and demonstrated at least 11 types of T cells in liver cancer with distinct underlying molecular and functional properties [89]. Such studies characterizing the T cell heterogeneity and TCR repertoire combined with advances in NGS and bioin­formatics algorithms will definitely further support and progress analyze T cells, cancer cells, and progress effective T cell-based immunotherapies.
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3. Transcriptional signatures
Tumor gene expression signature or transcriptome profile has been widely studied via (1) excised primary tumor, (2) biopsies of primary or metastatic tumors from patients before receiving chemotherapy or immunotherapy, as well as (3) post-treatment tumor biopsies from patients. Overall, these studies have contributed in understanding (1) prog­nostic signatures (2) predictive signatures (likelihood of treatment effectiveness) (3) mechanistic signatures. Moreover, it is also identified that these different signatures over­lap with each other and molecular pathways captured with in these signatures in turn have a lot of overlap with pathways contributing to the development of other forms of immune-mediated tissue damage as well as autoimmune responses [73, 90–92]. Below we provide an overview of signatures associated with immunotherapy responsiveness.