Kei Ishibashi

Kei Ishibashi

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Kei Ishibashi

Department of Pathology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan 1

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Academic Career Length

6Years (2021-Present)

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24 September 2021 in Journal of Experimental Medicine
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AKAkemi Kosaka
Akemi Kosaka
KIKei Ishibashi
Kei Ishibashi
TNToshihiro Nagato
Toshihiro Nagato
HKHidemitsu Kitamura
Hidemitsu Kitamura
YFYukio Fujiwara
Yukio Fujiwara
TOTakayuki Ohkuri
Takayuki Ohkuri
Activation of STING signaling plays an important role in anti-tumor immunity, and we previously reported the anti-tumor effects of STING through accumulation of M1-like macrophages in tumor tissue treated with a STING agonist. However, myeloid cells express SIRPα, an inhibitory receptor for phagocytosis, and its receptor, CD47, is overexpressed in various cancer types. Based on our findings that breast cancer patients with highly expressed CD47 have poor survival, we evaluated the therapeutic efficacy and underlying mechanisms of combination therapy with the STING ligand cGAMP and an antagonistic anti-CD47 mAb using E0771 mouse breast cancer cells. Anti-CD47 mAb monotherapy did not suppress tumor growth in our setting, whereas cGAMP and anti-CD47 mAb combination therapy inhibited tumor growth. The combination therapy enhanced phagocytosis of tumor cells and induced systemic anti-tumor immune responses, which rely on STING and type I IFN signaling. Taken together, our findings indicate that coadministration of cGAMP and an antagonistic anti-CD47 mAb may be promising for effective cancer immunotherapy.