Lymphocyte-polarized dendritic cells are highly effective in inducing tumor-specific CTLs.

Vaccine
Erik BerkPawel Kalinski

Abstract

High activity of dendritic cells (DCs) in inducing cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) led to their application as therapeutic cancer vaccines. The ability of DCs to produce IL-12p70 is one of the key requirements for effective CTL induction and a predictive marker of their therapeutic efficacy in vivo. We have previously reported that defined cocktails of cytokines, involving TNFα and IFNγ, induce mature type-1 polarized DCs (DC1s) which produce strongly elevated levels of IL-12 and CXCL10/IP10 upon CD40 ligation compared to "standard" PGE₂-matured DCs (sDCs; matured with IL-1β, IL-6, TNFα, and PGE₂) and show higher CTL-inducing activity. Guided by our observations that DC1s can be induced by TNFα- and IFNγ-producing CD8⁺ T cells, we have tested the feasibility of using lymphocytes to generate DC1s in a clinically-compatible process, to limit the need for clinical-grade recombinant cytokines and the associated costs. CD3/CD28 activation of bulk lymphocytes expanded them and primed them for effective production of IFNγ and TNFα following restimulation. Restimulated lymphocytes, or their culture supernatants, enhanced the maturation status of immature (i)DCs, elevating their expression of CD80, CD83 and CCR7, and the ability to produce IL-...Continue Reading

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