KDM1B is an important regulator of cytokine signaling in the tumor immune microenvironment and response to immune checkpoint therapy (RNA-seq)

Tumor microenvironment (TME) plays an important role in immune evasion and resistance to immune checkpoint therapy. Here, by using genetic, epigenetic, tumor biology and immunology approaches, we unraveled a key function of KDM1B in TME. KDM1B is important for maintaining several pro-oncogenic cytokine/chemokine signaling pathways. In vivo in resistant and inflammatory breast cancer models, ablation of KDM1B in tumor cells results in increased T cell activity and significantly improved response to anti-PD-1/anti-CTLA-4 therapy. Thus, this study identifies KDM1B as a key regulator of tumor immune microenvironment and offered the mechanistical basis for using KDM1B inhibitors in combinatory therapy to overcome resistance to immune checkpoint blockade. Use transcriptom analysis to examine the effect of KDM1B depletion to cancer cell in culture and tumors developed from s.q cancer cell injection.