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CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 75, Issue 13, Pages 2619-2628Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-14-2524
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- RITC (Recherche et Innovation Therapeutique en Cancerologie)
- INSERM
- Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse III)
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TNF plays a dual, still enigmatic role in melanoma, either acting as a cytotoxic cytokine or favoring a tumorigenic inflammatory microenvironment. Herein, the tumor growth of melanoma cell lines expressing major histocompatibility complex class I molecules at high levels (MHC-I-high) was dramatically impaired in TNF-deficient mice, and this was associated with enhanced tumor-infiltrating CD8(+) T lymphocytes. Immunodepletion of CD8 T cells fully restored melanoma growth in TNF-/- mice. Systemic administration of Etanercept inhibited MHC-I-high melanoma growth in immunocompetent but not in immunodeficient (IFN gamma(-/-), nude, or CD8(-/-)) mice. MHC-Ihigh melanoma growth was also reduced in mice lacking TNF-R1, but not TNF-R2. TNF-/- and TNF-R1(-/-) mice as well as Etanercept-treated WT mice displayed enhanced intratumor content of high endothelial venules surrounded by high CD8(+) T-cell density. Adoptive transfer of activated TNF-R1-deficient or -proficient CD8(+) T cells in CD8-deficient mice bearing B16K1 tumors demonstrated that TNF-R1 deficiency facilitates the accumulation of live CD8(+) T cells into the tumors. Moreover, in vitro experiments indicated that TNF triggered activated CD8(+) T cell death in a TNF-R1-dependent manner, likely limiting the accumulation of tumor-infiltrating CD8(+) T cells in TNF/TNF-R1-proficient animals. Collectively, our observations indicate that TNF-R1-dependent TNF signaling impairs tumor-infiltrating CD8(+) T-cell accumulation and may serve as a putative target to favor CD8(+) T-cell-dependent immune response in melanoma. (C) 2015 AACR.
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