INSERM UMR1037, Cancer Research Center of Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
Cell Mol Life Sci. 2011 Jul;68(14):2433-42. doi: 10.1007/s00018-011-0705-7. Epub 2011 May 6.
Several clinical trials are currently assessing the therapeutic activity of human TCRVγ9Vδ2(+) lymphocytes in cancer. Growing tumors usually follow a triphasic "Elimination, Equilibrium, Escape" evolution in patients. Thus, at diagnostic, most tumors have already developed some means to escape to immune protection. We review here the conventional immunoescape mechanisms which might also protect against cytolytic TCRVγ9Vδ2(+) lymphocytes activated by phosphoantigens. Neutralization of these deleterious processes might prove highly valuable to improve the efficacy of ongoing γδ cell-based cancer immunotherapies.
目前有几项临床试验正在评估人类 TCRVγ9Vδ2(+)淋巴细胞在癌症中的治疗活性。生长中的肿瘤通常会在患者中经历一个三阶段的“消除、平衡、逃逸”演变。因此,在诊断时,大多数肿瘤已经发展出一些逃避免疫保护的手段。我们在这里回顾了常规的免疫逃逸机制,这些机制也可能对抵抗磷酸抗原激活的细胞毒性 TCRVγ9Vδ2(+)淋巴细胞起到保护作用。中和这些有害过程可能对提高正在进行的基于γδ细胞的癌症免疫疗法的疗效非常有价值。