Fig. 7.
Docetaxel and NHS-IL-12 combination therapy sets up an immune-stimulatory tumor microenvironment. MC38 tumor-bearing mice treated as in Fig. 3A were sacrificed on day 17 post-tumor implant and tumor whole transcriptome analysis was performed. Gene set enrichment analysis was carried out for docetaxel and NHS-IL-12 combination therapy versus untreated tumors. (A) Heatmap of bulk-RNA-seq data collected on day 17 post-treatment showing the top 30 upregulated and downregulated transcripts in MC38 tumors treated with monotherapy versus combination therapy, normalized to tumor expression with PBS treatment. (B) Transcriptomic analysis of combination-treated tumors shows significant enrichment in pathways associated with tumor suppression. Data represent one experiment, n = 3–4 mice/group. Fisher’s test for pathways applied top 10% genes with p value cut-off of p = 0.05. GO, gene ontology; KEGG, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
