Meredith L Stone, Jesse Lee, Jae W Lee, Heather Coho, Mito Tariveranmoshabad, Max M Wattenberg, Hana Choi, Veronica M Herrera, Yuqing Xue, Shaanti Choi-Bose, Sofia K Zingone, Dhruv Patel, Kelly Markowitz, Devora Delman, Vinod P Balachandran, Gregory L Beatty
T cell infiltration into tumors is a favorable prognostic feature, but most solid tumors lack productive T cell responses. Mechanisms that coordinate T cell exclusion are incompletely understood. Here we identify hepatocyte activation via interleukin-6/STAT3 and secretion of serum amyloid A (SAA) proteins 1 and 2 as important regulators of T cell surveillance of extrahepatic tumors. Loss of STAT3 in hepatocytes or SAA remodeled the tumor microenvironment with infiltration by CD8+ T cells, while interleukin-6 overexpression in hepatocytes and SAA signaling via Toll-like receptor 2 reduced the number of intratumoral dendritic cells and, in doing so, inhibited T cell tumor infiltration...
April 19, 2024: Nature Immunology