title: Utilization of interleukin-2 gene transfer in local immunotherapy of cancer.
abstract: It has been previously found that local administration of Balb/c plasmacytoma cells transformed and made non-tumorigenic by insertion of the cloned murine interleukin-2 (IL-2) gene induced regressions of a variety of murine tumours including the original Balb/c plasmacytoma X63-Ag8.653 growing in syngeneic mice. The tumour-inhibitory effect of the plasmacytoma cells transformed by IL-2 cDNA and designated as X63-m-IL-2 was due to their high constitutive production of IL-2. Here we show that admixture of syngeneic spleen cells to the X63-m-IL-2 transformants substantially (P < 0.025) increased the antitumour efficacy of the transformants. Balb/c spleen cells co-cultivated with X63-m-IL-2 cells in vitro yielded predominantly Thy 1.2+, CD3+, LFA-1+ lymphocytes, cytolytic for the X63-Ag8.653 plasmacytoma as well as for other murine tumours, including the X63-m-IL-2 target cells.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Genetics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bubeník
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Símová
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bubeníková
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zeuthen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Radzikowski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000235:genetics; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D007167:Immunotherapy; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D007694:Killer Cells, Natural / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010954:Plasmacytoma / Q000235:genetics; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology; D014162:Transfection; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2; D004247:DNA