A Viscum album oligosaccharide activating human natural cytotoxicity is an interferon gamma inducer

Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy : CII
E A Mueller, F A Anderer

Abstract

Commercial Viscum album extract Helixor-M contains a dialysable oligosaccharide (HM-BP) that activates natural killer (NK) cytotoxicity against K562 tumour cells when preincubated with human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) for 72 h. The activated effector cells were exclusively found in the monocyte/macrophage subpopulation. However, when peripheral non-adherent cells (PNAC) were preincubated with HM-BP for 72 h the NK cytotoxicity of CD56+CD3- NK cells was activated. This discrepancy was found to be due to the release of prostaglandin E2 from activated monocytes/macrophages, which blocked activation of the cytotoxicity of NK cells. Analysis of the supernatant culture medium after 72 h preincubation demonstrated that HM-BP induced release of interferon gamma (IFN gamma) from T cells (preferentially from CD3+CD4+ cells) and of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) from monocytes/macrophages. Release of IFN gamma was the crucial step for activation of NK cytotoxicity since enhancement of NK cytotoxicity during pretreatment of PBMC or PNAC with HM-BP was completely blocked in the presence of anti-IFN gamma antibodies. Anti-interleukin-2, anti-TNF alpha or anti-IFN alpha antibodies had no effect on the HM-BP-induced en...Continue Reading

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