title: In vitro immunization of patient T cells with autologous bone marrow antigen presenting cells pulsed with tumor lysates.
abstract: Presentation of cell-associated antigen to T cells is a critical event in the initiation of an anti-tumor immune response but it appears to often be deficient or limiting. Here we report an experimental system for stimulation of human T lymphocytes using autologous antigen presenting cells (APCs) and autologous tumor cells. Two types of APCs were prepared from human bone marrow: MC and DC. MC were produced by using GM-CSF and SCF. DC were obtained with the same cytokines plus IL-4. DC and MC were generated in parallel from the same patients and their phenotypes and capacities to prime T lymphocytes were analyzed and compared. MC were CD14+, CD1a-, CD33+ and HLA-DR+. Two populations of DC were defined: immature DC were uniformly CD1a-; mature DC expressed CD1a, CD80, CD86, HLA-DR, CD54 and CD58 but lacked surface CD14. Stimulation of autologous T lymphocytes was studied by measuring their proliferation and cytotoxic function. In more than 80% of our experiments the proliferation of autologous T lymphocytes cocultured with APC pulsed or not with tumor cell lysates was higher than that of T cells cultured alone. DC were more effective than MC in stimulating proliferation of lymphocytes. The capacity of a patient's autologous bone marrow-derived APC to stimulate T cells when exposed to autologous tumor cell lysates suggest that such antigen-exposed APC may be useful in specific anti-tumor immunotherapy protocols.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Immunology, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France. coulon@bergonie.org
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Coulon
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ravaud
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gaston
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delaunay
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Pariente
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Verdier
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Scrivante
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gualde
mesh_terms: D000938:Antigen-Presenting Cells / Q000276:immunology*; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000276:immunology; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000276:immunology; D001324:Autoantigens / Q000276:immunology; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D018920:Coculture Techniques; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D016130:Immunophenotyping; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation / Q000276:immunology*; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology; D008545:Melanoma / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D000954:Antigens, Surface; D001324:Autoantigens; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha