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Dendritic cells pulsed with RNA are potent antigen-presenting cells in vitro and in vivo.

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Boczkowski, D, Nair, S K, Snyder, D, Gilboa, E·1996·The Journal of experimental medicine

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Immunization with defined tumor antigens is currently limited to a small number of cancers where candidates for tumor rejection antigens have been identified. In this study we investigated whether pulsing dendritic cells (DC) with tumor-derived RNA is an effective way to induce CTL and tumor immunity. DC pulsed with in vitro synthesized chicken ovalbumin (OVA) RNA were more effective than OVA peptide-pulsed DC in stimulating primary, OVA-specific CTL responses in vitro. DC pulsed with unfractionated RNA (total or polyA+) from OVA-expressing tumor cells were as effective as DC pulsed with OVA peptide at stimulating CTL responses. Induction of OVA-specific CTL was abrogated when polyA+ RNA from OVA-expressing cells was treated with an OVA-specific antisense oligodeoxynucleotide and RNase H, showing that sensitization of DC was indeed mediated by OVA RNA. Mice vaccinated with DC pulsed with RNA from OVA-expressing tumor cells were protected against a challenge with OVA-expressing tumor cells. In the poorly immunogenic, highly metastatic, B16/F10.9 tumor model a dramatic reduction in lung metastases was observed in mice vaccinated with DC pulsed with tumor-derived RNA (total or polyA+, but not polyA- RNA). The finding that RNA transcribed in vitro from cDNA cloned in a bacterial plasmid was highly effective in sensitizing DC shows that amplification of the antigenic content from a small number of tumor cells is feasible, thus expanding the potential use of RNA-pulsed DC-based vaccines for patients bearing very small, possibly microscopic, tumors.

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Authors
Boczkowski, D., Nair, S. K., Snyder, D., & Gilboa, E.
Affiliations
Duke Medical Center (US)
Venue
The Journal of experimental medicine
Published
1996-08-01
Volume
184
Issue
2
Pages
465-472
ISSN
  • 0022-1007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1540-9538
OpenAlex
W2167614869
Cited by
915
References
1
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FWCI
14.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
Keywords
dendritic cells, antigen presentation, cytotoxic T lymphocytes, cancer vaccination, chicken ovalbumin, polyadenylated RNA, antisense oligodeoxynucleotides, cancer vaccines, lung metastasis, tumor rejection antigens
MeSH terms
Animals, Antigen-Presenting Cells, Base Sequence, Cytotoxicity, Immunologic, Dendritic Cells, Immunity, Cellular, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Molecular Sequence Data, Ovalbumin, RNA, RNA, Messenger, T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic, Mice

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