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To systematically define molecular features in human tumor cells that determine their degree of sensitivity to human allogeneic natural killer (NK) cells, we quantified the NK cell responsiveness of hundreds of molecularly annotated 'DNA-barcoded' solid tumor cell lines in multiplexed format and applied genome-scale CRISPR-based gene-editing screens in several solid tumor cell lines, to functionally interrogate which genes in tumor cells regulate the response to NK cells. In these orthogonal studies, NK cell-sensitive tumor cells tend to exhibit 'mesenchymal-like' transcriptional programs; high transcriptional signature for chromatin remodeling complexes; high levels of B7-H6 (NCR3LG1); and low levels of HLA-E/antigen presentation genes. Importantly, transcriptional signatures of NK cell-sensitive tumor cells correlate with immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) resistance in clinical samples. This study provides a comprehensive map of mechanisms regulating tumor cell responses to NK cells, with implications for future biomarker-driven applications of NK cell immunotherapies.
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Citotoxicidad Inmunológica/genética , Resistencia a Antineoplásicos/genética , Regulación Neoplásica de la Expresión Génica , Inhibidores de Puntos de Control Inmunológico/farmacología , Células Asesinas Naturales/fisiología , Células Alogénicas/fisiología , Animales , Antígenos B7/genética , Línea Celular Tumoral , Ensamble y Desensamble de Cromatina/fisiología , Pruebas Inmunológicas de Citotoxicidad/métodos , Citotoxicidad Inmunológica/fisiología , Resistencia a Antineoplásicos/efectos de los fármacos , Femenino , Genoma Humano , Antígenos de Histocompatibilidad Clase I/genética , Antígenos de Histocompatibilidad Clase I/inmunología , Humanos , Ratones Endogámicos NOD , Ensayos Antitumor por Modelo de Xenoinjerto , Antígenos HLA-ERESUMEN
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