CH50真核表达载体pCH503的构建及小鼠体内表达的趋化与抗肿瘤活行

构建重组FN多肽CH50真核表达载体并在小鼠体内表达,研究其趋化与抗肿瘤作用.采用重组DNA技术构建表达质粒;体内进行基因转染,采用RT-PCR鉴定导入基因的表达;通过肝素亲和层析、SDS-PAGE和Western blot鉴定表达产物;腹腔细胞计数、Giemsa染色分析以及肌肉组织切片与染色观察体内基因转染后的趋化作用;小鼠黑色素瘤模型研究基因转染抑制肿瘤的作用.从CH50原核表达载体获得重组多肽的cDNA,5＇端加上小鼠IFN-γ5＇端非编码区和信号肽编码区的cDNA,3＇端加上人FN cDNA的3＇端非编码区;将重组cDNA插入pREP8质粒,即构建出pCH503质粒.巨噬细胞在体内经pCH503转染,然后在体外培养,能够产生CH50多肽.以pCH503分别进行腹腔基因转染和肌肉内基因转染,均可对免疫细胞产生趋化作用;pCH503体内转染可以使小鼠腹腔内黑色素肿瘤结节数降低50%～601.CH50真核表达载体pCH503可在小鼠体内表达,体内基因转染可趋化免疫细胞和抑制肿瘤结节形成,在肿瘤综合治疗中有重要意义.     

CH50真核表达载体pCH503的构建及小鼠体内表达的趋化与抗肿瘤活性

构建重组 FN多肽 CH50真核表达载体并在小鼠体内表达 ,研究其趋化与抗肿瘤作用 .采用重组 DNA技术构建表达质粒 ;体内进行基因转染 ,采用 RT- PCR鉴定导入基因的表达 ;通过肝素亲和层析、SDS- PAGE和 Western blot鉴定表达产物 ;腹腔细胞计数、Giemsa染色分析以及肌肉组织切片与染色观察体内基因转染后的趋化作用 ;小鼠黑色素瘤模型研究基因转染抑制肿瘤的作用 .从 CH50原核表达载体获得重组多肽的 c DNA,5′端加上小鼠 IFN- 5′端非编码区和信号肽编码区的 c DNA,3′端加上人 FN c DNA的 3′端非编码区 ;将重组 c DNA插入 p REP8质粒 ,即构建出p CH50 3质粒 .巨噬细胞在体内经 p CH50 3转染 ,然后在体外培养 ,能够产生 CH50多肽 .以p CH50 3分别进行腹腔基因转染和肌肉内基因转染 ,均可对免疫细胞产生趋化作用 ;p CH50 3体内转染可以使小鼠腹腔内黑色素肿瘤结节数降低 50 %～ 60 % . CH50真核表达载体 p CH50 3可在小鼠体内表达 ,体内基因转染可趋化免疫细胞和抑制肿瘤结节形成 ,在肿瘤综合治疗中有重要意义 .     

CH50真核表达载体pCH503的构建及小鼠体内表达的趋化与抗肿瘤活性

构建重组 FN多肽 CH50真核表达载体并在小鼠体内表达 ,研究其趋化与抗肿瘤作用 .采用重组 DNA技术构建表达质粒 ;体内进行基因转染 ,采用 RT- PCR鉴定导入基因的表达 ;通过肝素亲和层析、SDS- PAGE和 Western blot鉴定表达产物 ;腹腔细胞计数、Giemsa染色分析以及肌肉组织切片与染色观察体内基因转染后的趋化作用 ;小鼠黑色素瘤模型研究基因转染抑制肿瘤的作用 .从 CH50原核表达载体获得重组多肽的 c DNA,5′端加上小鼠 IFN- 5′端非编码区和信号肽编码区的 c DNA,3′端加上人 FN c DNA的 3′端非编码区 ;将重组 c DNA插入 p REP8质粒 ,即构建出p CH50 3质粒 .巨噬细胞在体内经 p CH50 3转染 ,然后在体外培养 ,能够产生 CH50多肽 .以p CH50 3分别进行腹腔基因转染和肌肉内基因转染 ,均可对免疫细胞产生趋化作用 ;p CH50 3体内转染可以使小鼠腹腔内黑色素肿瘤结节数降低 50 %～ 60 % . CH50真核表达载体 p CH50 3可在小鼠体内表达 ,体内基因转染可趋化免疫细胞和抑制肿瘤结节形成 ,在肿瘤综合治疗中有重要意义 .     

重组FN多肽CH50抑制黑色素瘤B16细胞体内转移的研究

目的研究重组纤黏连蛋白（FN）多肽CH50对小鼠黑色素瘤B16细胞体内转移的影响,以探讨CH50多肽抑制肿瘤转移的可能分子机制。方法体外培养黑色素瘤B16细胞,用荧光染料CFSE标记,接种脾脏后24h取脾、肝、肺做冰冻切片,观察肿瘤细胞在3种组织中的侵袭情况。从脾脏接种B16细胞,建立体内肿瘤转移动物模型,采用基于流体动力学的体内基因转染方法于小鼠体内表达CH50多肽,RT-PCR检测CH50mRNA在肝组织的表达,Western印迹检测CH50多肽的表达。通过比较原位肿瘤结节及转移结节在数量、大小、分布上的差异及检测原位肿瘤组织中MMP-2、MMP-9表达差异,观察CH50多肽的治疗效果。结果注射24h后即可在脾脏形成荧光结节。pCH510质粒通过尾静脉注射后,可在肝组织中检测到CH50mRNA及CH50多肽的表达。从脾脏接种B16细胞后第14天可在脾脏形成原发肿瘤,至第35天肝脏表面已形成转移瘤结节,成功建立了体内器官问（脾转肝）肿瘤转移动物模型。体内转染表达CH50多肽能抑制肿瘤生长、侵袭和转移,抑制原位肿瘤结节中MMP-2、MMP-9的表达。结论CH50多肽可以通过对MMP-2、MMP-9蛋白表达的抑制作用来抑制黑色素瘤B16细胞的成瘤能力和体内侵袭、转移能力。     

内皮抑素30肽基因真核表达载体的构建及实验研究

目的构建改构内皮抑素抗肿瘤相关肽（30肽）的真核表达载体pVAX1,检测该重组载体的生物学活性。方法在30肽基因的5′端加入胶原蛋白ⅩⅧ信号肽编码序列,通过PCR扩增获得目的基因30肽,并连接到质粒pVAX1中,构建表达分泌型内皮抑素的重组质粒pVAX1-30E,然后将重组质粒pVAX1-30E直接注入小鼠肿瘤组织。通过ELISA小鼠体内抑瘤实验检测目的基因的表达及其活性。结果ELISA实验表明构建的分泌型内皮抑素重组质粒pVAX1-30E能在肿瘤细胞中表达30肽,免疫组化结果表明瘤组织中表达的30肽能抑制肿瘤微血管的新生,而体内抑瘤实验表明在肿瘤部位直接注射重组质粒能抑制肿瘤生长,抑瘤率为28.19%。结论通过向瘤组织中直接注射分泌型内皮抑素重组质粒pVAX1-30E可以抑制小鼠体内肿瘤微血管新生和肿瘤生长而实现其抗肿瘤活性。     

纤黏连蛋白重组多肽CH50抑制黑色素瘤MMP-2和MMP-9表达、激活的研究

目的 研究纤黏连蛋白重组多肽CH50对黑色素瘤B16细胞侵袭能力的影响,探讨CH50多肽抑制肿瘤生长、侵袭的机制。方法 体外培养小鼠黑色素瘤B16细胞、小鼠腿部皮下注射B16细胞建立肿瘤动物模型。采用明胶电泳法检测B16细胞和黑色素瘤组织中基质金属蛋白酶MMP-2和MMP-9的表达和激活;以CH50多肽体外处理B16细胞或体内表达CH50,观察CH50下调MMPs表达以及对肿瘤细胞侵袭能力的抑制作用。结果 B16细胞在体外培养条件下主要表达MMP-2,而在肿瘤微环境中则同时表达MMP-2和MMP-9。肿瘤组织中MMPs的表达明显高于体外培养B16细胞。CH50多肽对体外培养B16细胞的MMPs表达和激活无明显抑制作用,但处理后的B16细胞进入体内后表达MMPs的能力受到明显抑制。体内转染表达的CHSO多肽亦可明显抑制肿瘤表达MMPs、并抑制肿瘤侵袭能力。结论 纤黏连蛋白重组多肽CHSO可以抑制肿瘤微环境中基质金属蛋白酶MMP-2和MMP-9的表达和激活,从而抑制黑色素瘤生长及侵袭能力。     

两个改造后的肿瘤抑素抗肿瘤活性肽活性研究

为了研究改造后的肿瘤抑素2个抗肿瘤活性肽的作用机制,明确其不同的抗肿瘤活性,采用基因工程技术原理,人工合成肿瘤抑素中185～203位氨基酸所对应的19肽和T7肽(74～98位氨基酸)基础上改造的21肽碱基序列,将其与融合蛋白表达载体pTYB2重组后转化到大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)中进行诱导表达,用几丁质亲和层析柱一步纯化,直接获得19肽和21肽,利用MTT法、细胞生长曲线、TUNEL法、流式细胞仪早期细胞凋亡检测和细胞周期检测,小鼠H22腹水型转移型肝癌实体瘤抑瘤实验并结合组织病理学切片,来研究19肽和21肽单独应用或联合应用对肿瘤细胞和内皮细胞生长和凋亡的影响以及对体内肿瘤的抑制情况.体内外实验表明:获得的19肽抗肿瘤活性以直接作用肿瘤细胞为主,也有抑制新生血管生成的作用.基因重组21肽抗肿瘤作用是通过抑制肿瘤组织新生血管生成实现的.19肽、21肽联合应用对肿瘤细胞、内皮细胞生长抑制和促凋亡作用明显增强,抗肿瘤活性大大提高.联合用药弥补了单独用药不足,产生协同抗肿瘤作用,可能会成为今后肿瘤治疗的一个主要方向.     

膜型Tim-3分子促进荷瘤小鼠抗肿瘤免疫应答的研究

目的 研究膜型Tim-3分子对H22肝癌细胞生长的抑制效应,探讨膜型Tim-3分子对荷瘤小鼠免疫系统的影响.方法 以H22肝癌细胞接种于BALB/c小鼠大腿肌肉建立小鼠实体瘤模型,采用原位注射裸DNA的方法在小鼠体内表达膜型Tim-3进行基因治疗,观察Tim-3对肿瘤生长的抑制作用;采用RTPCR技术在肿瘤生长不同时期检测Tim-3对4-1BB、IFN-γ、galectin-9等免疫相关基因表达的影响;流式细胞术检测膜型Tim-3对脾细胞增殖活性及细胞毒活性的影响;观察Tim-3 ＋4-1 BBL协同抗肿瘤作用.结果 体内转染表达Tim-3对肿瘤的生长有明显的抑制作用.流式细胞术结果显示,在小鼠荷瘤早期,Tim-3可提高脾细胞在特异性抗原刺激下的增殖反应和对H22肿瘤细胞的细胞毒作用;Tim-3与4-1BBL协同作用时抗肿瘤作用更加明显.结论 膜型Tim-3可在免疫启动阶段作为正向免疫调节因子增强抗肿瘤免疫应答,并可与4-1 BBL协同产生更强的抑瘤效应.     

肌肉注射可调控胰岛素基因对糖尿病小鼠降糖作用

为研究四环素调控的胰岛素表达载体肌肉直接注射后对实验性糖尿病小鼠的降糖作用,构建了质粒prTA-tet4-rhINS.以链脲佐菌素(STZ)诱导Balb/C小鼠成糖尿病模型,300 μg质粒注射至小鼠的股部肌肉,并同时在饮水中加入不同浓度强力霉素（Dox）,监测小鼠末梢血糖、体重,测定血清人胰岛素、C肽水平.用RT-PCR检测小鼠肌肉注射部位组织中人胰岛素原mRNA水平的表达情况.结果表明：质粒prTA-tet4-rhINS注射后,给予Dox可显著降低糖尿病小鼠的血糖,血清人胰岛素、C肽水平相应升高,体重增加.效果持续大约二周.小鼠肌肉组织中有人胰岛素原mRNA表达.降糖效果和基因表达程度随Dox浓度增加而增强.质粒prTA-tet4-rhINS对STZ诱导的糖尿病小鼠高血糖起到明显的降低作用.在糖尿病小鼠肌肉组织能很好地表达,并受Dox调控.     

白细胞介素-18基因肌肉注射产生明显抗肿瘤作用(英文)

 为了探讨人白细胞介素 (h IL ) - 1 8基因转导的抗肿瘤作用 ,构建了 h IL- 1 8c DNA真核表达质粒载体 pc DNA3/h IL- 1 8.将 pc DNA3/h IL- 1 8经脂质体包裹 ,按照 1 0 0μg/只的剂量注射入雄性Balb/c小鼠后肢肌肉 ,在设定时间处死小鼠取注射部位肉提取总 RNA,应用半定量反转录聚合酶链反应 (RT- PCR)及免疫组化法检测了 h IL- 1 8m RNA及其蛋白质在小鼠肌肉中不同时间点的表达水平 .随后 30只雄性 Balb/c小鼠于基因注射后第 7d腹部皮下 (i.d.)或腹腔内 (i.p.)接种 1×1 0 5个同系小鼠 S- 1 80肉瘤细胞 .观察了 S- 1 80肿瘤细胞在腹腔及皮下的生长情况、小鼠体重、肿瘤重量及存活时间 .结果发现 ,pc DNA3/h IL- 1 8注射后 2 d能检测到 h IL- 1 8m RNA表达 ,第 7d表达量较高 ,第 2 8d仍有 h IL- 1 8m RNA表达 .免疫组化染色显示了注射部位散在有 h IL- 1 8蛋白质颗粒 .h IL- 1 8基因注射组小鼠体重、肿瘤重量均比对照组轻 (P值分别小于 0 .0 0 5、0 .0 5) ,存活时间比对照组延长 .结果显示 ,真核表达系统 pc DNA3/h IL - 1 8经脂质体包裹肌注后能有效表达 ,具有明显的抑制肿瘤生长作用 .     

Introduction of the human growth hormone gene into the guinea pig mammary gland by in vivo transfection promotes sustained expression of human growth hormone in the milk throughout lactation

We tested the feasibility of transfecting mammary tissue in vivo with an expression plasmid encoding the human growth hormone (hGH) gene, under the control of the cytomegalovirus promoter. Guinea pig mammary glands were transfected with plasmid DNA infused through the nipple canal and expression was monitored in control and transfected glands by radioimmunoassay of milk samples for hGH. Sustained expression of hGH throughout lactation was attained with a polyion transfection complex shown to be optimal for the transfection of bovine mammary cells, in vitro. However, contrary to expectations, hGH expression was consistently 5- to 10-fold higher when DEAE-dextran was used alone for transfection. Thus polyion complexes which are optimal for the transfection of cells in vitro may not be optimal in vivo. The highest concentrations of hGH in milk were obtained when glands were transfected within 3 days before parturition. This method may have application for studying the biological role or physical properties of recombinant proteins expressed in low quantities, or for investigating the regulation of gene promoters without the need to construct viral vectors or produce transgenic animals.     

Transfection of murine dendritic cell line (JAWS II) by a nonviral transfection reagent

Dendritic cells are the most potent antigen-presenting cells that initiate and modulate the host immune system. Based on their immunostimulatory activity, a variety of strategies have been developed to use dendritic cells as vaccines and immunotherapeutic agents against infection and cancer. Genetically modified dendritic cells are useful for immunotherapeutic purposes because of their sustained activity in vivo. However, transfection of dendritic cells with plasmid DNA has been very difficult. While the viral transfection is associated with nonspecific activation of dendritic cells, commonly used nonviral transfection reagents have a low efficiency of transfection. Here we describe an improved, simple, less time-consuming transfection protocol using the nonviral nonliposomal lipid polymer, TransIT-TKO transfection reagent, for transfecting murine dendritic cells (JAWS II) with the gene that encodes Coccidioides immitis antigen 2 (Ag2). The JAWS II cells were cotransfected with pHYG-enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) and pVR1012-C. immitis Ag2 plasmid DNAs using TransIT-TKO reagent. We reproducibly obtained 30%-50% transfection efficiency. The transfected cells maintained their immature phenotype and were functionally active. In addition, the flexibility of this agent for expressing multiple antigens (GFP and C. immitis Ag2) offers an advantage of delivering multiple immunogens.     

The use of immunologically competent cells from pig mesenteric lymph nodes to treat pulmonary tumors in mice

Summary Pulmonary tumors were produced in A strain mice by intravenous injection of 1×10⁶ A strain mammary carcinoma cells. The mice were killed on day 14, their lungs fixed in Bouin's fluid, and the number of tumors counted.The mesenteric lymph node chains of pigs were immunized by implantation of tissue into the mesentery. In all animals the middle segment of node chain was excised. The remaining segments of node proximal and distal to the resected segment were, in separate pigs, nonimmunized or immunized against mouse tumor, immunized against mouse tumor or mouse skin, or immunized against human tumor or mouse tumor. All segments of node chain were removed 7 days after immunization for preparation of cell suspensions.When tumor cells were combined in a ratio of 1 : 10 or 1 : 60 with mouse tumor-immune pig cells, there was a significant reduction in tumor formation compared to that in mice receiving tumor cells alone.Injection of mouse tumor-immune pig cells on day 7, to treat tumors inoculated on day 0, was ineffective. However, when the mice received, in addition, 200 rad thoracic irradiation on day 3, immune pig cells reduced the number of tumors compared to that in animals receiving irradiation alone, or irradiation and nonimmune pig cells.In further experiments, in order to increase the number of pig cells reaching the lungs, a splenectomy was performed on day 6, prior to intravenous injection of immune cells on day 7. A comparison was made of the antitumor effect of pig cells immunized against mouse tumor, mouse skin, or human tumor. Cells immunized against either mouse tissue were equally effective in reducing the number of tumors compared to the number in animals receiving tumor cells alone. However, cells immune to human tumor were ineffective.     

Chemo-Immunotherapy with Oxaliplatin and Interleukin-7 Inhibits Colon Cancer Metastasis in Mice

Combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy has shown promise for cancer. Interleukin-7 (IL-7) can potentially enhance immune responses against tumor, while oxaliplatin (OXP), a platinum-based drug, can promote a favorable immune microenvironment and stimulate anticancer immune responses. We evaluated the anti-tumor activity of IL-7 combining OXP against a murine colon carcinoma in vitro and in vivo and studied the tumor immune microenvironment to investigate whether the combined treatment affects on the local immune cell populations. Utilizing lung and abdomen metastasis models by inoculation of CT26 mice colon cancer cells, we evaluated the anti-tumor efficacy of combining IL-7 and OXP in mice models. Tumor immune microenvironment was evaluated by flow cytometric analysis and immunohistochemical staining. Our study showed that the in vivo administration of IL-7 combined with OXP markedly inhibited the growth of tumors in lung and abdomen metastasis models of colon cancer. IL-7 alone had no effect on tumor growth in mice and IL-7 did not alter cell sensitivity to OXP in culture. The antitumor effect of combining IL-7 and OXP correlated with a marked increase in the number of tumor-infiltrating activated CD8+ T cells and a marked decrease in the number of regulatory T (Treg) cells in spleen. Our data suggest that OXP plus IL-7 treatment inhibits tumor cell growth by immunoregulation rather than direct cytotoxicity. Our findings justify further evaluation of combining IL-7 and chemotherapy as a novel experimental cancer therapy.     

Soluble form of T cell Ig mucin 3 is an inhibitory molecule in T cell-mediated immune response

T cell Ig mucin 3 (Tim-3) has been found to play an important role in Th1-mediated auto- and alloimmune responses, but the function of soluble form of Tim-3 (sTim-3) remains to be elucidated. In this study, we report the inhibitory effect of sTim-3 on T cell-mediated immune response. In this study, sTim-3 mRNA was found, among different tissues and organs, only in splenic cells, and the activation of splenocytes resulted in up-regulated production of both sTim-3 mRNA and protein. We constructed a eukaryotic expression plasmid, psTim-3, which expresses functional murine sTim-3. In C57BL/6 mice inoculated with B16F1 melanoma cells, the growth of tumor was facilitated by the expression of this plasmid in vivo. Furthermore, sTim-3 inhibited the responses of T cells to Ag-specific stimulation or anti-CD3 mAb plus anti-CD28 mAb costimulation and the production of cytokines IL-2 and IFN-gamma in vitro. In tumor rejection model, sTim-3 significantly impaired T cell antitumor immunity, evidenced by decreased antitumor CTL activity and reduced amount of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in tumor. Real-time PCR analysis of gene expression in tumor microenvironment revealed the decreased expression of Th1 cytokine genes and the unchanged profile of the genes related to T regulatory cell function, suggesting that the inhibitory effect of sTim-3 on the generation of Ag-specific T cells in vivo is dominated by T effector cells rather than T regulatory cells. Our studies thus define sTim-3 as an immunoregulatory molecule that may be involved in the negative regulation of T cell-mediated immune response.     

Preexisting antitumor immunity augments the antitumor effects of chemotherapy

Efficacy of cancer chemotherapy is generally believed to be the result of direct drug killing of tumor cells. However, increased tumor cell killing does not always lead to improved efficacy. Herein, we demonstrate that the status of antitumor immunity at the time of chemotherapy treatment is a critical factor affecting the therapeutic outcome in that tumor-bearing mice that possess preexisting antitumor immunity respond to chemotherapy much better than those that do not. Enhancing antitumor immunity before or at the time of chemotherapy-induced antigen release increases subsequent response to chemotherapy significantly. By in vitro and in vivo measurements of antitumor immunity, we found a close correlation between the intensity of antitumor immunity activated by chemotherapy and the efficacy of treatment. Immune intervention with interleukin-12 during the early phase of chemotherapy-induced immune activation greatly amplifies the antitumor response, often resulting in complete tumor eradication not only at the chemo-treated local site, but also systemically. These findings provide additional evidence for an immune-mediated antitumor response to chemotherapy. Further, our results show that timely immune modification of chemotherapy-activated antitumor immunity can result in enhanced antitumor-immune response and complete tumor eradication.     

Antitumor effect of intratumoral administration of dendritic cell combination with vincristine chemotherapy in a murine fibrosarcoma model

A new antitumor therapeutic strategy utilizing the combined effect of chemotherapy and DC (dendritic cell)-based immunotherapy was designed, and the effect of intratumoral injections of unpulsed, immature DCs was evaluated after in vivo pretreatment of vincristine on tumor growth in a murine fibrosarcoma tumor model. Vincristine exerted a much more potent apoptosis/necrosis-inducing effect on MCA-102 tumor cells than on DCs both in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, CD11c, CD40, CD80 and CD86 molecules on DCs were not downregulated after treatment with vincristine either in vitro or in vivo. The growth of tumor significantly regressed in the group which received the combined vincristine chemotherapy with intratumoral administration of DCs in contrast to the untreated group, the group treated with DCs alone, and the group treated with vincristine alone. In particular, an upregulated expression of CD40, CD80 and CD86 molecules on DCs was found in the combination treatment group. Furthermore, the number of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and the staining intensity of their CD4 and CD8 surface molecules also increased after the combination treatment. Therefore, our results indicate the feasibility of this combination therapy with vincristine chemotherapy and DC-based immunotherapy as an efficient antitumor strategy for the treatment of fibrosarcoma.     

Tumor cells with B7.1 and transmembrane anchored staphylococcal enterotoxin A generate effective antitumor immunity

Staphylococcus enterotoxin A (SEA) stimulates T cells bearing certain TCR beta-chain variable regions, when bound to MHC-II molecules, and is a potent inducer of CTL activity and cytokines production. To decrease toxicity of SEA to the normal MHC-II(+) cells and to localize the immune response induced by SEA to the tumor site, my colleague previously genetically fused SEA with B7.1 transmembrane region (named as SEAtm) to make SEA express on the surface of tumor cells and tumor cells modified with SEAtm could induce efficient antitumor immunity in vitro. The tumor cell vaccines modified with multiple immune activators frequently elicited stronger antitumor immune responses than single-modified vaccines. In this study, we modified the tumor cell vaccine with B7.1 and SEAtm to improve efficiency in the application of SEA. First, SEAtm gene was subcloned from recombinant plasmid pLXSNSEP by PCR and murine B7.1 gene was cloned from splenocytes derived from C57BL/6 mice by RT-PCR. Then, the eukaryotic co-expression vector of SEA and murine B7.1 gene was constructed and named as pcDNA-BIS. B16 cell lines stably expressing SEA and/or B7.1 were established by screening with G418 after transfection and inactivated for the preparation of tumor cell vaccines to treat mice bearing established B16 tumors. The results indicated that the dual-modified tumor cell vaccine B16/B7.1+SEAtm (B16-BIS) elicited significantly stronger antitumor immune responses in vivo when compared with the single-modified tumor cell vaccines B16/B7.1 (B16-B7.1) and B16/SEAtm (B16-SEAtm), and supported the feasibility and effectiveness of the dual-modified tumor cell vaccine with superantigen and co-stimulatory molecule.     

Generation of tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytesin vivo by combined treatment with inactivated tumor cells and recombinant interleukin-2

In order to search for a new therapy that would maximize the effect of interleukin-2 (IL-2) in evoking antitumor immunity in vivo, the therapeutic effect of a combination of mitomycin-C(MMC)-treated tumor cells and recombinant IL-2 was examined for its induction of antitumor activity against established melanoma metastasis. In C57BL/6 mice intravenously (i. v.) injected with B16 melanoma cells on day 0, the combined treatment with an intraperitoneal (i. p.) injection of MMC-treated melanoma cells on day 6 and 2500 U rIL-2 (twice daily) on days 7 and 8 markedly reduced the number of pulmonary metastases. This antitumor activity was more effective than that in untreated controls and mice that were injected with MMC-treated melanoma cells alone or rIL-2 alone. When the i. p. injection of MMC-treated tumor cells was replaced by other syngeneic tumor cells, antitumor activity against metastatic melanoma was not induced. The antitumor activity induced by this treatment increased in parallel with an increase in the dose of rIL-2 injected. In contrast, an i. p. injection of soluble tumor-specific antigens alone could induce only a marginal level of antitumor activity, and this activity was not augmented by subsequent i. p. injections of rIL-2. In vivo treatment with anti-CD8 monoclonal antibody (mAb), but not with anti-CD4 mAb or anti-asialo-GM1 antibody, abrogated the antitumor activity induced by this combined therapy. This suggests that the antitumor effect was dependent on CD8⁺ T cells. Lung-infiltrating lymphocytes from mice that had been i. v. injected with melanoma cells 11 days before and were treated with this combined therapy, showed melanoma-specific cytolytic activity. This combined therapy also showed significant antitumor activity against subcutaneously inoculated melanoma cells. These results demonstrate that the combined therapy of an i. p. injection of MMC-treated tumor cells and subsequent and consecutive i. p. administration of rIL-2 increases antitumor activity against established metastatic melanoma by generating tumor-specific CD8⁺ CTL in vivo.