Cross-regulation between type I and type II NKT cells in regulating tumor immunity: a new immunoregulatory axis.
Negative immunoregulation is a major barrier to successful cancer immunotherapy. The NKT cell is known to be one such regulator. In this study we explored the roles of and interaction between the classical type I NKT cell and the poorly understood type II NKT cell in the regulation of tumor immunity. Selective stimulation of type II NKT cells suppressed immunosurveillance, whereas stimulation of type I NKT cells protected against tumor growth even when responses were relatively skewed toward Th2 cytokines. When both were stimulated simultaneously, type II NKT cells appeared to suppress the activation in vitro and protective effect in vivo of type I NKT cells. In the absence of type I, suppression by type II NKT cells increased, suggesting that type I cells reduce the suppressive effect of type II NKT cells. Thus, in tumor immunity type I and type II NKT cells have opposite and counteractive roles and define a new immunoregulatory axis. Alteration of the balance between the protective type I and the suppressive type II NKT cell may be exploited for therapeutic intervention in cancer.
Ambrosino
Elena
E
National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Terabe
Masaki
M
Halder
Ramesh C
RC
Peng
Judy
J
Takaku
Shun
S
Miyake
Sachiko
S
Yamamura
Takashi
T
Kumar
Vipin
V
Berzofsky
Jay A
JA
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