Selective elimination of a chemoresistant side population of B-CLL cells by cytotoxic T lymphocytes in subjects receiving an autologous hCD40L/IL-2 tumor vaccine
Open Access
- 14 January 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Leukemia
- Vol. 24 (3), 563-572
- https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2009.281
Abstract
Side-population (SP) analysis identifies precursor cells in normal and malignant tissues. Cells with this phenotype have increased resistance to many cytotoxic agents, and may represent a primary drug-resistant population in malignant diseases. To discover whether drug-resistant malignant SP cells are nonetheless sensitive to immune-mediated killing, we first established the presence of a malignant CD5+CD19+ SP subset in the blood of 18/21 subjects with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL). We examined the fate of these cells in six of these individuals who received autologous human CD40 ligand and interleukin-2 (hCD40L/IL-2) gene-modified tumor cells as part of a tumor vaccine study. Vaccinated patients showed an increase in B-CLL-reactive T cells followed by a corresponding decline in circulating CD5+CD19+ SP cells. T-cell lines and clones generated from vaccinated patients specifically recognized B-CLL SP tumor cells. Elimination of SP cells is likely triggered by their increased expression of target antigens, such as receptor for hyaluronan-mediated motility (RHAMM), after stimulation of the malignant cells by hCD40L, as CD8+ RHAMM-specific T cells could be detected in the peripheral blood of immunized patients and were associated with the decline in B-CLL SP cells. Hence, malignant B cells with a primary drug-resistant phenotype can be targeted by T- cell-mediated effector activity after immunization of human subjects.Keywords
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