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CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 15, Issue 12, Pages 4085-4094Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-3323
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- Italian Association for Cancer Research
- Cariplo Foundation [2008-2411]
- Alleanza Contro il Cancro, Rome
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Purpose: To assess the extent of signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) activation in response to interleukin 2 (IL-2) in melanoma patients' T cells, along with clinical stage of tumor progression. Experimental Design:T lymphocytes from peripheral blood of healthy donors and of American Joint Committee on Cancer stage I to IV melanoma patients, as well as from metastatic lymph nodes of patients, were evaluated for responsiveness to IL-2. CFSE assays and single-cell phospho-STAT-specific flow cytometry screening were used. Results. T cells from advanced melanoma patients, in comparison with healthy donors, showed reduced proliferation to IL-2 and IL-15, but not to anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody. Impaired response occurred in CCR7(+) and CCR7(-) T-cell subsets, but not in CD3(-) CD8(+) natural killer (NK) cells, and was not explained by induction of apoptosis, increased cytokine consumption, or altered IL-2R subunit expression in patients' T lymphocytes. By phospho-specific flow cytometry, defective STAT1 and STAT5 activation in response to IL-2 was found mainly in T lymphocytes from peripheral blood and/or tumor site of American Joint Committee on Cancer stage III and IV patients, compared with stage I and II patients and to donors, and in melanoma antigen-specific T cells isolated from metastatic lymph nodes. At tumor site, impaired STAT activation in T cells did not correlate with frequency of CD4(+) CD25(+) Foxp3(+) T cells. Serum from advanced melanoma patients inhibited IL-2-dependent STAT activation in donors' T cells and a neutralizing monoclonal antibody to transforming growth factor beta 1 counteracted such inhibition. Conclusions: These results provide evidence for development of impaired STAT signaling in response to IL-2, along with clinical evolution of the disease, in melanoma patients' T cells.
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