title: Isolation and characterization of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes from cervical carcinoma.
abstract: The evidence that virus-induced tumors generally elicit T-cell responses prompts the notion that HPV-related cervical carcinoma would be amenable to treatment by T-cell-mediated adoptive therapy. Therefore, we cultured and cloned tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) from a patient with cervical carcinoma and studied the in vitro characteristics of these TIL by using the established autologous tumor-cell line. After stimulation of bulk TIL cultures with 1,000 Units/ml recombinant interleukin 2 (rIL-2), followed by limiting dilution, T-cell clones were generated in the presence of 20 U/ml rIL-2 and irradiated autologous tumor cells, PBLs and EBV-transformed B-cell lines. Phenotypically, all clones were CD3/CD8-positive with a heterogeneous CD56 expression. All expressed preferential cytolytic activity against autologous tumor cells, did not lyse autologous lymphoblasts, and were cytotoxic against the NK-sensitive cell line K562. A minor lytic capacity was detectable on allogeneic cervical tumor-cell lines or tumor-cell lines of other histologic types. Cytotoxicity against the autologous tumor could be inhibited by anti-CD3, anti-CD8 and anti-ICAM1 but not by anti-HLA class-1 (W6/32, B9.12.1), anti-allele-specific HLA determinants and anti-LFA-3 antibodies. We demonstrate a highly specific autologous lytic activity of cervical carcinoma TIL, in which a CD3-associated surface antigen recognition is involved. These results may prove useful in further studies on adoptive immunotherapy of cervical cancer patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Hilders
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ras
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: van Eendenburg
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nooyen
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Fleuren
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000276:immunology*; D002469:Cell Separation; D002999:Clone Cells; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D015333:Gene Rearrangement, beta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor; D006801:Humans; D016130:Immunophenotyping; D016246:Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating / Q000276:immunology*; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta / Q000235:genetics; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta