title: Enhancing antitumor by immunization with fusion of dendritic cells and engineered tumor cells.
abstract: A novel approach for a dentritic cells (DCs)-based tumor vaccine was developed for the formation of hybrid-engineered J558 after fusion with DCs. To make the hybrid-tumor vaccine generate more efficient specific CTL cytotoxicity against wild-type tumor cells, we genetically engineered tumor cells with mIL-12 gene prior to the cell fusion. mIL-12 was detected at 870 +/- 60 pg/(10(5) cells/ml) in the culture supernatants and the fusion ratio was about 30% by the co-focal microscopic analysis. Vaccination of mice with DCs fused with engineered J558 induced more efficient tumor-specific CTL cytotoxicity against wild-type tumor cells in vitro and with efficient antitumor immunity in vivo. These results suggest that this approach of using DCs fused with engineered tumor cells could be applied in clinical settings of DCs-based cancer vaccines.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030.
authors.forename: Weidong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Hongtao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zeng
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019496:Cancer Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D002459:Cell Fusion; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D006822:Hybrid Cells; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology; D014162:Transfection; D019444:Vaccines, DNA / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D019496:Cancer Vaccines; D019444:Vaccines, DNA