TYK2 IL-12 - IL23 Cancer!12 Nov 2019 08:41
The Publication is a couple of days old and shows they are definitely in the right place, John R has been developing Tyk2 for long time.
TYK2: An Upstream Kinase of STATs in Cancer
The biological relevance for TYK2-dependent cytokines activating STAT3 is best established for the IL-10R2 utilizing IL-22 and the IL-12RĂź1-utilizing IL-12 and IL-23. IL-22 is a central cytokine in tissue-barrier function, wound healing, and epithelial homeostasis and repair. Cancer promoting, as well as restraining, functions were described. IL-23 is a key mediator of inflammation, bridges innate and adaptive immune responses, and is known to support tumorigenesis and metastasis. IL-12 is central in promoting cell-mediated immunity to infection and cancer. However, this anti-carcinogenic function can be counteracted by IL-12-STAT3-promoted production of pro-carcinogenic IL-23.
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/11/11/1728/htm
Full PDF Publication!
https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/cancers/cancers-11-01728/article_deploy/cancers-11-01728.pdf
Sareum’s Poster
“It has been reported that STAT3 signalling in both the tumor, and microenvironment, is critical in shifting the balance from IL-12, a central cytokine in antitumor and antiviral immunity, to potentially pro-carcinogenic IL-23 production.“
C086 - Immunotherapeutic effects of the TYK2 inhibitor SAR-20351 in syngeneic tumor models.
Background: TYK2 (tyrosine kinase 2) is a member of the Janus family of non-receptor tyrosine kinases and has been shown to play an important role in the signalling of type I interferons, as well as IL-12 and IL-23, via phosphorylation of downstream STATs. The TYK2/STAT1/BCL-2 pathway is implicated in the survival of leukemic cells in a proportion of T-ALL cases. It has been reported that STAT3 signalling in both the tumor, and microenvironment, is critical in shifting the balance from IL-12, a central cytokine in antitumor and antiviral immunity, to potentially pro-carcinogenic IL-23 production. Furthermore there is increasing evidence that chronic tumor interferon signalling leads to multigenic T cell exhaustion and resistance to immune checkpoint blockade. Additionally, TYK2 has been suggested to play a key role in CTLA-4 STAT3 signal transduction in B cell lymphomas and in melanoma associated B cells. We have previously reported on SAR-20347, a 1,3-oxazole-4 carboxamide, which is an orally bioavailable potent and selective inhibitor of TYK2, which causes tumor regression in in vivo models of T-ALL, and which has shown striking reductions in STAT phosphorylation downstream of IFNa signalling, and IFN? production in response to IL-12 both in vitro and in vivo. Here we report the effects of SAR-20351, an orally bioavailable optimised analog of SAR-20347, on tumor cell viability and components of the tumor microenvironment in immunocompetent mouse models.