Tumor cell-intrinsic Decr2 is necessary for immunotherapy efficacy
Increased or decreased B16 cell sensitivity to activated cytotoxic T lymphocytes.To identify tumor cell-intrinsic genes essential for antigen-specific CD8+ T cell killing, we utilized the B16.SIY melanoma cell line which expressed the model antigen SIY (SIYRYYGL) co-expressed with DsRed, that can be recognized by 2C CD8+ TCR transgenic (Tg) T cells.  B16.SIY cells were transduced and selected to stably expressed a Cas9 gene, and then transduced with a genome-scale CRISPR gRNA library.Transduced cells were cultured for 8 days to provide time for gene disruption to occur, then were co-cultured with pre-activated 2C CD8+ T cells at a 2:1 Effector:Target ratio for 16 hours. By performing deep sequencing, we examined the sgRNA library representation in tumor cells with or without T cell co-incubation by MAGeCK analysis.