The researchers found that T cells that have stem cell-like properties are tied to longer survival and high tumor killing capacity in human cancer. Aerobic glycolysis regulates T cell function. However, whether and how primary cancer alters T cell glycolytic metabolism and affects tumor immunity in cancer patients remains a question.
Researchers report in the journal Nature Immunology that ovarian cancers imposed glucose restriction on T cells and dampened their function via maintaining high expression of microRNAs miR-101 and miR-26a, which constrained expression of the methyltransferase EZH2.
EZH2 activated the Notch pathway by suppressing Notch repressors, stimulated T cell polyfunctional cytokine expression and promoted their survival via Bcl-2 signaling.
Moreover, small hairpin RNA–mediated knockdown of human EZH2 in T cells elicited poor antitumor immunity.
Together, these data unveil a metabolic target and mechanism of cancer immune evasion.
http://www.nature.com/ni/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ni.3313.html
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