BTLA mediates inhibition of human tumor-specific CD8+ T cells that can be partially reversed by vaccination

Autor: Daniel E. Speiser, Pedro Romero, Laurent Derré, Camilla Jandus, Olivier Michielin, Daniel Olive, Sonia Pastor, Jean-Paul Rivals, Donata Rimoldi
Rok vydání: 2010
Předmět:
T-Lymphocytes
T cell
medicine.medical_treatment
BTLA
Biology
GPI-Linked Proteins
Animals
Antigens
CD/physiology

Antigens
Neoplasm/immunology

Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins/physiology
CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
COS Cells
Cell Line
Tumor

Cercopithecus aethiops
Humans
Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis
Lymphocyte Activation
MART-1 Antigen
Melanoma/immunology
Melanoma/therapy
Neoplasm Proteins/immunology
Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/pharmacology
Receptors
Immunologic/physiology

Receptors
Tumor Necrosis Factor
Member 14/physiology

Vaccination
Immune system
Antigen
Antigens
CD

Antigens
Neoplasm

Neoplasms
medicine
Cytotoxic T cell
CTLA-4 Antigen
Receptors
Immunologic

General Medicine
T lymphocyte
Immunotherapy
Neoplasm Proteins
medicine.anatomical_structure
Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
Immunology
Cancer research
CD8
Research Article
Zdroj: Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 120, no. 1, pp. 157-167
Derré, Laurent; Rivals, Jean-Paul; Jandus, Camilla; Pastor, Sonia; Rimoldi, Donata; Romero, Pedro; Michielin, Olivier; Olive, Daniel; Speiser, Daniel E (2010). BTLA mediates inhibition of human tumor-specific CD8+ T cells that can be partially reversed by vaccination. Journal of clinical investigation, 120(1), pp. 157-67. Ann Arbor, Mich.: American Society for Clinical Investigation 10.1172/JCI40070
ISSN: 0021-9738
DOI: 10.1172/jci40070
Popis: The function of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells, which may protect against both infectious and malignant diseases, can be impaired by ligation of their inhibitory receptors, which include CTL-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) and programmed cell death 1 (PD-1). Recently, B and T lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA) was identified as a novel inhibitory receptor with structural and functional similarities to CTLA-4 and PD-1. BTLA triggering leads to decreased antimicrobial and autoimmune T cell responses in mice, but its functions in humans are largely unknown. Here we have demonstrated that as human viral antigen–specific CD8+ T cells differentiated from naive to effector cells, their surface expression of BTLA was gradually downregulated. In marked contrast, human melanoma tumor antigen–specific effector CD8+ T cells persistently expressed high levels of BTLA in vivo and remained susceptible to functional inhibition by its ligand herpes virus entry mediator (HVEM). Such persistence of BTLA expression was also found in tumor antigen–specific CD8+ T cells from melanoma patients with spontaneous antitumor immune responses and after conventional peptide vaccination. Remarkably, addition of CpG oligodeoxynucleotides to the vaccine formulation led to progressive downregulation of BTLA in vivo and consequent resistance to BTLA-HVEM–mediated inhibition. Thus, BTLA activation inhibits the function of human CD8+ cancer-specific T cells, and appropriate immunotherapy may partially overcome this inhibition.
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