Activation of tolerogenic dendritic cells in the tumor draining lymph CD8+ T cells engineered to express CD40 ligand
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Higham, Eileen M.
Wittrup, Karl Dane
Chen, Jianzhu
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March 2010
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Journal of Immunology
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The American Association of Immunologists
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Higham, E. M., K. D. Wittrup, and J. Chen. “Activation of Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells in the Tumor Draining Lymph Nodes by CD8+ T Cells Engineered to Express CD40 Ligand.” The Journal of Immunology 184.7 (2010): 3394–3400.
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Abstract
Tolerogenic dendritic cells in the tumor microenvironment can inhibit the generation and maintenance of robust antitumor T cell responses. In this study, we investigated the effects of local delivery of CD40L by tumor-reactive CD8[supersript +] T cells on dendritic cell activation and antitumor T cell responses in the TRAMP model. To increase the immunostimulatory signal, CD40L was engineered, by deleting the majority of the cytoplasmic domain, to increase its levels of expression and duration on the surface of CD8[supersript +] T cells. Tumor-reactive CD8[supersript +] T cells expressing the truncated form of CD40L stimulated maturation of dendritic cells in vitro and in the prostate draining lymph nodes in vivo. Following dendritic cell maturation, a significantly higher fraction of adoptively transferred, tumor-reactive (reporter) CD8[supersript +] T cells was stimulated to express IFN-γ and infiltrate the prostate tissue. The antitumor CD8[supersript +] T cell response was further enhanced if TRAMP mice were also immunized with a tumor-specific Ag. These findings demonstrate that augmented T cell responses can be achieved by engineering tumor-reactive T cells to deliver stimulatory signals to dendritic cells in the tumor microenvironment.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
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https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.0903111
