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FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
卷 12, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.622995
关键词
cancer immunology; BCG strains; NK activation; CD56bright; bladder cancer; mycobacterial fractions
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资金
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [RTC-2017-6379-1, RTI2018-093569-B-I00]
- regional government of Madrid [S2017/BMD-3733-2]
- Generalitat of Catalunya [2017SGR-229]
- Spanish Ministry of Science [RED2018-102411-T]
The use of Natural Killer cell receptors in immunotherapy is a promising area of research, with cytokine activation inducing potent NK anti-tumor responses. BCG therapy has been shown to activate cytotoxic NK cells that efficiently recognize bladder cancer cells, demonstrating different components of mycobacteria can stimulate various immune subpopulations suitable for cancer elimination.
Natural Killer cell receptors allow this heterogeneous immune population to efficiently fight both tumors and infection, so their use as immunotherapy agents is an active field of research. Cytokine activation, particularly by myeloid cell-derived IL15, can induce potent NK anti-tumor responses. While studying the mechanism of action of intravesical instillations of Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) as therapy for patients with high risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, we showed that BCG can activate a cytotoxic CD56(bright) NK cell population which efficiently recognized bladder cancer cells. This pioneer immunotherapy provides an invaluable model to understand the role of different immune populations in tumor elimination. However, during the propagation of BCG worldwide a large number of genetically diverse BCG substrains developed. Here, we investigated the capacity of different BCG substrains to promote NK cell activation and confirmed that they were able to activate lymphocytes. Tice, Connaught and Moreau were the substrains with a stronger NK activation effect as measured by CD56 upregulation. Surprisingly, dead mycobacteria also stimulated PBMC cultures and we further demonstrate here that subcellular fractions of BCG-Tice, in the absence of live mycobacteria, could also induce an NK cell response. Lipids from BCG-Tice, but not from Mycobacterium bovis, stimulated NK cell activation and degranulation, whereas the aqueous fraction of either bacteria did not activate lymphocytes. However, delipidated BCG-Tice bacteria were able to activate effector cells (CD3(+)CD56(+) and NK, CD3(-)CD56(+)). These data demonstrate that different components of mycobacteria can stimulate different immune subpopulations resulting in phenotypes suitable for cancer elimination.
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