Ida Franiak-Pietryga1, Sayuri Miyauchi1, Sangwoo Shawn Kim1, Philip Dominick Sanders1, Whitney Sumner1, Lin Zhang1, A J Mundt1, Joseph A Califano2, Andrew B Sharabi3. 1. Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, California. 2. Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, California; Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology, University of California, San Diego, California. 3. Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, California. Electronic address: sharabi@ucsd.edu.
Abstract
PURPOSE: B cells play a key role in outcomes of cancer patients and responses to checkpoint blockade immunotherapies. However, the effect of radiation therapy on B cell populations is poorly understood. Here we characterize the effects of radiation on the development, survival, and phenotype of physiological B-cell subsets. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Naïve and immunized tumor bearing and nontumor bearing mice were treated with large-field or focal stereotactic radiation and distinct B-cell subsets of varying developmental stages were analyzed by flow cytometry and real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS: We first report that focal stereotactic radiation is highly superior to large-field radiation at inducing tumor infiltration of B cells, CD8+ T cells, and macrophages. We observed that radiation affects B cell development in the bone marrow, increasing frequencies of early pro-B cells and late pro-B cells while inducing upregulation of programmed cell death protein 1. We then demonstrate that class switched B cells and plasma cells are highly resistant to radiation therapy compared with naïve B cells and upregulate activation markers programmed cell death 1 ligand 2 and major histocompatibility complex class II) after radiation. Mechanistically, radiation upregulates Xbp1 and Bcl6 in plasma cells, conferring radioresistance. Furthermore, using an immunization approach, we demonstrate that radiation enhances activation-induced cytidine deaminase mediated class switching and somatic hypermutation in primed B cells. CONCLUSIONS: These data demonstrate that stereotactic radiation is superior to large-field radiation at inducing infiltration of immune cells into tumors and that plasma cells and class switched B cells are highly resistant to radiation therapy. These results represent the most comprehensive analysis of the effects of radiation on B cells to date and identify novel mechanisms by which radiation modulates immune cells within the tumor microenvironment.
PURPOSE: B cells play a key role in outcomes of cancer patients and responses to checkpoint blockade immunotherapies. However, the effect of radiation therapy on B cell populations is poorly understood. Here we characterize the effects of radiation on the development, survival, and phenotype of physiological B-cell subsets. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Naïve and immunized tumor bearing and nontumor bearing mice were treated with large-field or focal stereotactic radiation and distinct B-cell subsets of varying developmental stages were analyzed by flow cytometry and real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS: We first report that focal stereotactic radiation is highly superior to large-field radiation at inducing tumor infiltration of B cells, CD8+ T cells, and macrophages. We observed that radiation affects B cell development in the bone marrow, increasing frequencies of early pro-B cells and late pro-B cells while inducing upregulation of programmed cell death protein 1. We then demonstrate that class switched B cells and plasma cells are highly resistant to radiation therapy compared with naïve B cells and upregulate activation markers programmed cell death 1 ligand 2 and major histocompatibility complex class II) after radiation. Mechanistically, radiation upregulates Xbp1 and Bcl6 in plasma cells, conferring radioresistance. Furthermore, using an immunization approach, we demonstrate that radiation enhances activation-induced cytidine deaminase mediated class switching and somatic hypermutation in primed B cells. CONCLUSIONS: These data demonstrate that stereotactic radiation is superior to large-field radiation at inducing infiltration of immune cells into tumors and that plasma cells and class switched B cells are highly resistant to radiation therapy. These results represent the most comprehensive analysis of the effects of radiation on B cells to date and identify novel mechanisms by which radiation modulates immune cells within the tumor microenvironment.
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