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Specific microtubule-depolymerizing agents augment efficacy of dendritic cell-based cancer vaccines

J Biomed Sci

BACKGROUND: Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are associated with immunogenic cell death and have the ability to enhance maturation and antigen presentation of dendritic cells (DCs). Specific microtubule-depol

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Reference Id
3787
Evidence Id
20377
Core Evidence Id
20377
Source Reference Id
858
Herb2 Reference Id
HBREF001473
Subject Paper Key
HBIN021260_21689407
Pubmed Id
21689407
Doi
10.1186/1423-0127-18-44
Paper Title
Specific microtubule-depolymerizing agents augment efficacy of dendritic cell-based cancer vaccines
Paper Abstract
BACKGROUND: Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are associated with immunogenic cell death and have the ability to enhance maturation and antigen presentation of dendritic cells (DCs). Specific microtubule-depolymerizing agents (MDAs) such as colchicine have been shown to confer anti-cancer activity and also trigger activation of DCs. METHODS: In this study, we evaluated the ability of three MDAs (colchicine and two 2-phenyl-4-quinolone analogues) to induce immunogenic cell death in test tumor cells, activate DCs, and augment T-cell proliferation activity. These MDAs were further evaluated for use as an adjuvant in a tumor cell lysate-pulsed DC vaccine. RESULTS: The three test phytochemicals considerably increased the expression of DAMPs including HSP70, HSP90 and HMGB1, but had no effect on expression of calreticulin (CRT). DC vaccines pulsed with MDA-treated tumor cell lysates had a significant effect on tumor growth, showed cytotoxic T-lymphocyte activity against tumors, and increased the survival rate of test mice. In vivo antibody depletion experiments suggested that CD8+ and NK cells, but not CD4+ cells, were the main effector cells responsible for the observed anti-tumor activity. In addition, culture of DCs with GM-CSF and IL-4 during the pulsing and stimulation period significantly increased the production of IL-12 and decreased production of IL-10. MDAs also induced phenotypic maturation of DCs and augmented CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell proliferation when co-cultured with DCs. CONCLUSIONS: Specific MDAs including the clinical drug, colchicine, can induce immunogenic cell death in tumor cells, and DCs pulsed with MDA-treated tumor cell lysates (TCLs) can generate potent anti-tumor immunity in mice. This approach may warrant future clinical evaluation as a cancer vaccine.
Journal
J Biomed Sci
Publish Year
2011
Experiment Subject
cells: tumor cells
Experiment Type
Cell Experiment
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Specific microtubule-depolymerizing agents augment efficacy of dendritic cell-based cancer vaccines
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