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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 184, Issue 4, Pages 1897-1908Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0901570
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Recherche et Innovation en Biotechnologies
- Institut des Technologies Avancees du Vivant, Region Midi-Pyrenees
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Topics
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Exchange of plasma membrane fragments, including cell-surface proteins and lipids, in conjugates formed between lymphocytes and their cellular partners is a field of intense investigation. Apart from its natural occurrence during Ag recognition, the process of membrane transfer can be triggered in experimental or therapeutic settings when lymphocytes targeted by Abs are conjugated to Fe gamma R-expressing accessory cells. The direction of membrane capture (i.e., which of the two cells is going to donate or accept plasma membrane fragments) can have important functional consequences, such as insensitivity of tumor cells to treatment by therapeutic mAbs. This effect, called antigenic modulation or shaving, occurs as a result of a process in which the Fc gamma R-expressing cells remove the mAb and its target protein from the tumor cells. We therefore analyzed this process in conjugates formed between various Fc gamma R-expressing cells and a series of normal or tumor T and B cells opsonized with different Abs capable of triggering membrane exchange (including the therapeutic Ab rituximab). Our results show that the direction of membrane capture is dictated by the identity of the Fc gamma R-expressing cell, much more so than the type of lymphocyte or the Ab used. We found that monocytes and macrophages are prone to be involved in bidirectional trogocytosis with opsonized target cells, a process they can perform in parallel to phagocytosis. Our observations open new perspectives to understand the mechanisms involved in trogocytosis and may contribute to optimization of Ab-based immunotherapeutic approaches. The Journal of Immunology, 2010,184: 1897-1908.
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