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Research ArticleClinical Studies

Prominent Nucleoli and Non-glandular Feature Are Independent Predictors of PD-L1 Expression in Lung Adenocarcinoma

NARA YOON, JIYOUNG KIM, LEE-SO MAENG, JOONG HYUN AHN and EUN SU PARK
Anticancer Research October 2018, 38 (10) 6003-6008; DOI: https://doi.org/10.21873/anticanres.12949
NARA YOON
1Department of Pathology, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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JIYOUNG KIM
1Department of Pathology, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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LEE-SO MAENG
1Department of Pathology, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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JOONG HYUN AHN
2Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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EUN SU PARK
1Department of Pathology, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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Abstract

Background/Aim: In patients with non-small cell lung cancer, relationships between PD-L1 (programmed death-ligand 1) expression and clinicopathological characteristics have been examined. However, the association between cytological features and PD-L1 expression remains unknown. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate whether nuclear features might be correlated with PD-L1 expression in patients with advanced and inoperable lung adenocarcinoma using small biopsy specimens. Materials and Methods: Archived slides from 90 patients with lung adenocarcinoma who underwent small biopsy between October 2014 and May 2017 at the Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, were reviewed. PD-L1 expression was detected by immunohistochemistry using PD-L1 22C3 IHC assay. Associations of PD-L1 expression with pathological and molecular features (EGFR mutation, ALK and ROS-1 rearrangement) were statistically analyzed. Results: PD-L1 expression in tumor cells was positive in 33 of 90 cases (36.7%). Higher PD-L1 expression (≥50%) was more frequent in cases with marked nuclear pleomorphism (p<0.001), coarse chromatin pattern (p=0.006), predominant nucleoli (≥3 μm) (p<0.001), large nuclear diameter (>5× small lymphocyte) (p=0.006), non-glandular feature (p<0.001), and atypical mitosis (p=0.034). There were no significant correlations between PD-L1 positivity and molecular features. In multivariable logistic regression analysis, PD-L1 positivity was independently associated with prominent nucleoli (p=0.005) and non-glandular feature (p=0.007). Conclusion: Prominent nucleoli and non-glandular feature are independent predictors of PD-L1 expression in lung adenocarcinoma.

  • Programmed cell death 1 ligand 1
  • non-small cell lung cancer
  • adenocarcinoma
  • cell nucleoli

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide (1). Recently, immunotherapy has received great attention in cancer therapy. Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression became a distinct biomarker to determine whether non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients will respond to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapies (2, 3). PD-1 is the receptor of PD-L1 and PD-L2 and is expressed on T-cells. It regulates the activation of T cells following activation by its ligands, PD-L1 and PD-L2, that are expressed in many cancer cells (4). Blockade of the interaction between PD-1 and PD-L1/2 by anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1 antibodies can induce antitumor immune response. This has been successfully used in the treatment of various types of human cancer including NSCLC (5-8). FDA has recently approved anti- PD-1/PD-L1 antibodies including pembrolizumab as a single agent in first and second line therapy for lung cancer (9). Determining the clinicopathological significance of PD-L1 protein expression would indicate effective treatment strategies for PD-1/PD-L1–inhibition by using antibodies. Although there are several studies on the relationships between PD-L1 expression and clinicopathological features (10), the factors that can determine drug responsiveness are not fully understood yet (11). Especially, no studies have reported the association between nuclear features and PD-L1 expression. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate relationships of PD-L1 positivity with several clinical factors and nuclear features in patients with advanced and inoperable lung adenocarcinoma using biopsy samples.

Materials and Methods

Patients and tissue samples. Ninety patients diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma who underwent small biopsy between October 2014 and May 2017 at Incheon St. Mary's Hospital were selected. These small biopsy specimens were obtained from lung (52 cases), pleura (16 cases), lymph node (13 cases), brain (8 cases), and bone (1 cases). Clinical data including age at diagnosis, sex, smoking history, surgical procedure, EGFR mutation status, and ALK and ROS1 rearrangements were retrospectively reviewed based on electronic medical records. EGFR status had been determined in tumor tissue using peptide nucleic acid–locked nucleic acid polymerase chain reaction clamp method. ALK and ROS1 rearrangements had been examined by fluorescent in situ hybridization using ZytoVision ALK dual color break apart probe and ZytoVision SPEC ROS1 Dual Color Break Apart Probe.

Ethics statement. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Incheon St. Mary Hospital (ID: OC18RESI0041).

Immunohistochemistry stain. Dako Autostainer Link 48 platform and automated staining protocol that had been validated for PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx assay were used for PD-L1 immunostaining according to the manufacturer's instructions (12, 13). In brief, deparaffinization, rehydration, and target retrieval were performed by Autostainer Link 48 (Agilent Technologies, Dako, Carpinteria, CA, USA). After incubation with monoclonal mouse anti-human PD-L1 antibody clone 22C3 or mouse immunoglobulin G isotype as a negative control reagent, specimens were incubated with anti-mouse linker antibody specific to the host species of the primary antibody followed by incubation with a ready-to-use visualization reagent consisting of secondary antibody molecules and horseradish peroxidase molecules coupled to a dextran polymer backbone. Enzymatic conversion of the subsequently added 3,30-diaminobenzidine tetrahydrochloride chromogen followed by addition of 3,30-diaminobenzidine tetrahydrochloride enhancer that resulted in precipitation of a visible reaction product at the site of antigen. These specimens were then counterstained with haematoxylin and coverslipped.

Interpretation of immunohistochemistry (IHC). All IHC slides were evaluated by two pathologists (ES Park and NR Yoon) blinded to clinical data. In case of disagreement, slides were re-examined until a consensus was achieved.

Carcinoma cells showing membranous staining for PD-L1 were evaluated as positive cells. The proportion of PD-L1 positive cells was estimated as the percentage of total carcinoma cells.

We first set the cut-off value at 50%, which was used in the pembrolizumab clinical trial (14, 15). In KEYNOTE-001 trial, PD-L1 expression of at least 50% of tumor cells correlated with improved clinical outcome in NSCLC patients treated with pembrolizumab (14, 15). Representative images of PD-L1 staining patterns of tumor specimens are shown in Figure 1.

Histologic evaluation. All available hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained slides were reviewed by a pathologist (ES Park) and problematic cases were reviewed by two pathologists (ES Park and NR Yoon). For each case, nuclear atypia nuclear diameter, nuclear/cytoplasmic (N/C) ratio, chromatin pattern, prominence of nucleoli, intranuclear inclusions, mitotic count, atypical mitoses, and nuclear diameter were evaluated.

The overall nuclear atypia was classified into two categories and recorded as mild to moderate atypia (relatively uniform nuclei) and severe atypia (bizarre, enlarged nuclei of varied sizes, with some nuclei at least twice as large as others). Nuclear/cytoplasmic (N/C) ratio was broken down into the following three categories: low N/C ratio (<1/3 nucleus to cytoplasm area), intermediate N/C ratio (1/3-2/3), and high N/C ratio (>2/3). Chromatin pattern was divided into two categories: finely granular and coarsely granular. Prominence of nucleoli was evaluated using as a reference nearby small lymphocytes, which measured approximately 3 μm. It was graded into the following two categories by the measurement of predominant size-1) indistinct: inconspicuous or distinct but small (<3 μm) at intermediate-power (×100), 2) large, ≥3 μm (16). Subsequently, for statistical analysis, these groups were consolidated to “indistinct/distinct” versus “large”. Intranuclear inclusions were determined as present or absent. Mitotic count was measured by the number of mitoses per a high-power field (HPF) (40× objective). Atypical mitoses were considered present if any was observed. For nuclear diameter, we selected at least 3 HPFs with the largest nuclei and evaluated the average nuclear diameter among at least 100 tumor cells using as reference nearby small lymphocytes and classified it as follows: small nuclei, equal or smaller than five times of small lymphocytes (≤5× small lymphocyte); and large nuclei, larger than five times of the small lymphocytes (>5× small lymphocyte) (17). Architectural features were divided into two categories: glandular (lepidic, papillary and acinar type) and non-glandular type (solid and micropapillary type).

Statistical analysis. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS statistical software version 20.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). Clinicopathological associations with PD-L1 expression were analyzed using Chi-square test and logistic regression analysis. A p-value<0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Results

Patient population. Clinical characteristics of the patient population (n=90) are summarized in Table I. There were 50 (55.6 %) males and 40 (44.4 %) females. Fifty-four (60.0%) patients were smokers while 36 were never smokers. The mean age of these patients at diagnosis was 67 years (range=39-87 years). EGFR status was available for all patients. Of these patients, 54 (60.0%) had wild-type EGFR while 36 (40.0%) had mutant EGFR. There were three cases with ALK rearrangement but no case with ROS1 rearrangement.

Relationship between PD-L1 expression and clinicopathological features. PD-L1 expression in tumor cells was positive in 33 (36.7%) of 90 cases. Relationships between PD-L1 expression and clinicopathological features are summarized in Table I. Univariate analysis using Chi-square test revealed that PD-L1 expression was not associated with age, smoking, and EGFR status.

Nuclear feature correlation with PD-L1 expression. PD-L1 expression (≥50%) was more frequent in those with severe nuclear atypia (p<0.001), coarse chromatin pattern (p=0.006), predominant nucleoli (≥3 μm) (p<0.001), large nuclear diameter (>5 small lymphocytes) (p=0.006), non-glandular feature (p<0.001), and atypical mitosis (p=0.034). There were no significant correlations between PD-L1 positivity and molecular features. In multivariable logistic regression analysis, PD-L1 positivity was independently associated with prominent nucleoli (multivariable odds ratio: 6.688; 95% confidence interval [CI]:1.784-25.065; p=0.005) and non-glandular feature (multivariable odds ratio: 4.539; 95%CI=1.508-13.663; p=0.007) (Table II).

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Figure 1.

Representative images for histology and PD-L1 expression. The tumor cells with solid structure and prominent nucleoli (A) show diffuse membranous staining of PD-L1 (B). Tumor cells with prominent nucleoli and glandular structure (C) also express PD-L1 (D). In contrast, the tumor cells with indistinct or small nucleoli and glandular structure (E) show no staining of PD-L1 (F). Original magnification: A-E, ×400; F, ×200.

Discussion

Our results demonstrated that PD-L1 protein expression was associated with worse nuclear features of cancer cells in 90 preoperative biopsy specimens of lung adenocarcinomas. PD-L1 was highly expressed in cases showing severe nuclear atypia (p<0.001), coarse chromatin pattern (p=0.006), predominant nucleoli (≥3 μm) (p<0.001), large nuclear diameter (>5 small lymphocytes) (p=0.006), non-glandular feature (p<0.001) and atypical mitosis (p=0.034). Further multivariate analysis revealed that prominent nucleoli and non-glandular feature were independent risk factors of PD-L1 expression.

Previous studies have demonstrated that PD-L1 is commonly expressed in clinically and histologically aggressive NSCLC. In adenocarcinoma, Takada et al. have shown that PD-L1 positivity is significantly associated with male gender, smoking, higher tumor grade, advanced T status, advanced N status, advanced stage, the presence of pleural and vessel invasions, micropapillary or solid predominant histological subtypes, and wild-type EGFR (10). Their analysis also revealed that smoking, higher pathological grade (micropapillary or solid predominant), and wild-type EGFR were independent predictors of PD-L1 positivity (10). In surgical specimens of lung adenocarcinoma, PD-L1 expression was correlated with solid predominant subtype and high ki-67 labeling index (18, 19). Recently, Ng kee Kwong F et al. have reported that NSCLCs with pleomorphic features are associated with high PD-L1 expression (20). However, there is no report uncovering the association between PD-L1 expression and specific nuclear features. Our results confirmed that non-glandular structure and prominent nucleoli were significantly associated with high expression of PD-L1 in small biopsy in both univariate and multivariate analyses. Therefore, non-glandular feature and prominent nucleoli of adenocarcinoma can be surrogate markers for PD-L1 expression in biopsy specimen.

In lung adenocarcinoma, solid predominant subtypes along with micropapillary pattern have been associated with poorer prognosis compared to other subtypes (21-23). Our results demonstrated that PD-L1 expression was independently associated with non-glandular feature in lung adenocarcinoma, supporting previous assumption that PD-L1 expression is correlated with poor-prognosis (10, 20, 24). In other organs, PD-L1 expression is also known to be related to poor prognostic features. For example, it was associated with larger tumor size, higher nuclear grade, estrogen and progesterone negativity, Her2/Neu positivity, and higher rates of cell proliferation in breast cancer (25) and higher T stage with lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer (26). In clear cell renal cell carcinoma, PD-L1 expression was associated with higher Fuhrman nuclear grade (27, 28) as well as non-clear cell RCC patients (29). These findings suggest that PD-L1 might increase aggressiveness in cancer by escaping from host immune surveillance (20, 24).

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Table I.

Clinopathological features according to PD-L1 expression.

This study had some limitations. First, it was a single institutional retrospective study using small biopsy specimens. Using 22C3 clone, 36.7% of cases showed PD-L1 expression (with 50% cut off value). This percentage was higher than that of previous reports using the same antibody platform on larger cohorts (24.9% to 30.2% in advanced NSCLCs) (30-32). However, our results were obtained from small tissue samples of fine-needle aspirates. They might not represent the entire tumor PD-L1 expression. Two reports have described significant discordance in PD-L1 expression between biopsy specimens and corresponding resected specimens of NSCLC patients using the SP142 and SP263 clones (9, 33). Thus, further studies are needed in the future to determine PD-L1 expression in biopsy specimens and resected specimens using 22C3. Second, survival data could not be produced due to the short duration of follow-up. Third, PD-L1 immunohistochemistry was conducted using only one antibody. Recently, Kim H et al. have reported that positivity rates for PD-L1 were similar using assay-specific cut-offs and other antibodies such as 22C3, SP263, and SP142 (34). Studies using surgical specimens and other antibodies are needed to validate our findings.

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Table II.

Logistic regression analysis of the association of clinicopathologic variables with PD-L1 expression in tumor cells.

In conclusion, this is the first investigation focusing on the relationship between nuclear features and PD-L1 expression in lung cancer. Our results demonstrated that PD-L1 expression was associated with worse nuclear features in univariate analysis. In multivariate analysis, prominent nucleoli and non-glandular feature were independent predictors of PD-L1 expression in lung adenocarcinoma. These results indicate that non-glandular feature and prominent nucleoli of adenocarcinoma might be good surrogate markers for PD-L1 expression in biopsy specimens.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by a Grant of Translational R&D Project through Institute for Bio-Medical convergence, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea.

Footnotes

  • Conflicts of Interest

    The Authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this study.

  • Received August 3, 2018.
  • Revision received August 22, 2018.
  • Accepted August 24, 2018.
  • Copyright© 2018, International Institute of Anticancer Research (Dr. George J. Delinasios), All rights reserved

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