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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
卷 127, 期 11, 页码 4042-4058出版社
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI90387
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- American Society of Hematology
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- NIH/National Cancer Institute (NCI) [F32CA200253]
- NIH [R01AI102924]
- Swedish Research Council
- Swedish Children's Cancer Society
- Swedish Cancer Center
- Norwegian Research Council
- Norwegian Cancer Society
- South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority
- Stiftelsen KG Jebsen
- NCI Cancer Center Support Grant [P30CA91842]
- CHiiPs Center at Washington University
- NIH, a Siteman Cancer Center SIP [T32HL007088]
- HHMI
- Leukemia SPORE [P50CA171963]
NK cells, lymphocytes of the innate immune system, are important for defense against infectious pathogens and cancer. Classically, the CD56(dim) NK cell subset is thought to mediate antitumor responses, whereas the CD56(bright) subset is involved in immunomodulation. Here, we challenge this paradigm by demonstrating that brief priming with IL-15 markedly enhanced the antitumor response of CD56(bright) NK cells. Priming improved multiple CD56(bright) cell functions: degranulation, cytotoxicity, and cytokine production. Primed CD56(bright) cells from leukemia patients demonstrated enhanced responses to autologous blasts in vitro, and primed CD56(bright) cells controlled leukemia cells in vivo in a murine xenograft model. Primed CD56(bright) cells from multiple myeloma (MM) patients displayed superior responses to autologous myeloma targets, and furthermore, CD56(bright) NK cells from MM patients primed with the IL-15 receptor agonist ALT-803 in vivo displayed enhanced ex vivo functional responses to MM targets. Effector mechanisms contributing to IL-15-based priming included improved cytotoxic protein expression, target cell conjugation, and LFA-1-, CD2-, and NKG2D-dependent activation of NK cells. Finally, IL-15 robustly stimulated the PI3K/Akt/mTOR and MEK/ERK pathways in CD56(bright) compared with CD56(dim) NK cells, and blockade of these pathways attenuated antitumor responses. These findings identify CD56(bright) NK cells as potent antitumor effectors that warrant further investigation as a cancer immunotherapy.
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