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. 2023 Jun 28;14:1161869. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1161869

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Anti-PD-1/CTLA-4/Ly6C treatment reduces tumor growth and increases CD8 T cells/dendritic cells. (A) 344SQ tumor bearing 129/Sv mice were weekly treated with anti-PD-1_CTLA-4 (200 µg of anti-PD-1 plus 200 µg of anti-CTLA-4 per mouse), anti-Ly6C alone (200 µg of anti-Ly6C per mouse), anti-PD-1_CTLA-4_Ly6C (200 µg of anti-PD-1 plus 200 µg of anti-CTLA-4 plus 200 µg of anti-Ly6C per mouse), or their IgG control mixture (IgG control) beginning on week 2 after a subcutaneous cancer cell injection (1 x 106 cells per mouse; n = 5) for 4 weeks. Mice received total of 4 treatments starting at week 2 post tumor cell implantation. (B) tSNE CD45 plots from 344SQ tumors treated with IgG control, anti-PD-1_CTLA-4, or anti-PD-1_CTLA-4_Ly6C from (A). Tumors from (A) were harvested to prepare single cell suspensions for FACS analysis. (C) Percentages of CD8 T cells (left), Effector/memory CD8 T cells (middle), and dendritic cells (right). (D) Percentage of Ly6C- (left) and Ly6C+ (right) CD14+CD115+ monocytes. KrasLSL-G12D/p53fl/fl mice generated through intratracheal administration of adenovirus expressing Cre recombinase were treated with either anti-PD-1/CTLA-4 or anti-PD-1/CTLA-4/Ly6C for 8 weeks (E) Micro-CT images shown at week 0 (baseline) and week 8 (endpoint) for anti-PD-1/CTLA-4 or anti-PD-1/CTLA-4/Ly6C. Dashed yellow circles indicate lung tumors. H indicates of heart. (F) Percentage change of tumor area was calculated taking into account prior time point and normalized to the baseline measurement. (G) H&E stained lung sections at week 8 from anti-PD-1/CTLA-4 or anti-PD-1/CTLA-4/Ly6C treated mice from (E). bar= 5 mm. (H) Number of lung tumors on H&E sections from (G) treated with anti-PD-1/CTLA-4 or anti-PD-1/CTLA-4/Ly6C weekly for 8 weeks. (I) IHC of CD8 stained lung tumors from (F) week 8. Percentage of CD8 T cells found in the lung tumors from KrasLSL-G12D/p53fl/fl mice treated for 8 weeks with anti-PD-1/CTLA-4 or anti-PD-1/CTLA-4/Ly6C. (J) The dendritic cells from CD11c-DTR mice were transferred into C57BL/6 mice to generate the chimerical mice, after 8-week stabilization, the mice were treated with diphtheria toxin twice a week to maintain the depletion of dendritic cells. The B16 melanoma-bearing mice were treated weekly with anti-PD-1_CTLA-4_Ly6C for 3 weeks staring on week 1 after tumor cells inoculation. (K) 344SQ tumor bearing 129/Sv mice were treated weekly with blockade of PD-1, CTLA-4, and Ly6C (200 µg of anti-PD-1 plus 200 µg of anti-CTLA-4 plus 200 µg of anti-Ly6C per mouse) or their IgG control mixture (IgG control) beginning on day 7 after a subcutaneous cancer cell injection (0.1 x 106 cells per mouse; n = 5) for 4 weeks. For blocking B7 signal, antibodies (anti-B7: 300 μg of anti-CD80 and 300 μg of anti-CD86 per mouse) were intraperitoneally administered 1 day before the first dose of therapy, and then once a week to maintain the blockade. ANOVA test was used to analyze the data. n.s., not significance; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p< 0.001; ****p < 0.0001.