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Abstract
Pediatric diffuse midline gliomas (DMG) with altered H3-K27M are aggressive brain tumors that arise during childhood. Despite advances in genomic knowledge and the significant number of clinical trials testing new targeted therapies, patient outcomes are still poor. Immune checkpoint blockades with small molecules, such as aptamers, are opening new therapeutic options that represent hope for this orphan disease. Here, we demonstrated that a TIM-3 aptamer (TIM-3 Apt) as monotherapy increased the immune infiltration and elicited a strong specific immune response with a tendency to improve the overall survival of treated DMG-bearing mice. Importantly, combining TIM-3 Apt with radiotherapy increased the overall median survival and led to long-term survivor mice in 2 pediatric DMG orthotopic murine models. Interestingly, TIM-3 Apt administration increased the number of myeloid populations and the proinflammatory CD8-to-Tregs ratios in the tumor microenvironment as compared with nontreated groups after radiotherapy. Importantly, the depletion of T cells led to a major loss of the therapeutic effect achieved by the combination. This work uncovers TIM-3 targeting as an immunotherapy approach to improve the radiotherapy outcome in DMGs and offers a strong foundation for propelling a phase I clinical trial using radiotherapy and TIM-3 blockade combination as a treatment for these tumors.
Authors
Iker Ausejo-Mauleon, Naiara Martinez-Velez, Andrea Lacalle, Daniel de la Nava, Javier Cebollero, Helena Villanueva, Noelia Casares, Javier Marco-Sanz, Virginia Laspidea, Oren Becher, Ana Patiño-García, Sara Labiano, Fernando Pastor, Marta M. Alonso
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