Zhang Yunfei, Zhang Yong, Chen Jun, Liu Yunyan, Luo Wen
Department of Orthopaedic, Orthopaedic Oncology Institute of PLA, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xinsi Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China.
Department of Ultrasound, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Changle Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China.
PLoS One. 2015 May 11;10(5):e0126075. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126075. eCollection 2015.
Tumor-derived heat shock protein70-peptide complexes (HSP70.PC-Tu) have shown great promise in tumor immunotherapy due to numerous advantages. However, large-scale phase III clinical trials showed that the limited immunogenicity remained to be enhanced. In previous research, we demonstrated that heat shock protein 70-peptide complexes (HSP70.PC-Fc) derived from dendritic cell (DC)-tumor fusions exhibit enhanced immunogenicity compared with HSP70.PCs from tumor cells. However, the DCs used in our previous research were obtained from healthy donors and not from the patient population. In order to promote the clinical application of these complexes, HSP70.PC-Fc was prepared from patient-derived DC fused directly with patient-derived tumor cells in the current study. Our results showed that compared with HSP70.PC-Tu, HSP70.PC-Fc elicited much more powerful immune responses against the tumor from which the HSP70 was derived, including enhanced T cell activation, and CTL responses that were shown to be antigen specific and HLA restricted. Our results further indicated that the enhanced immunogenicity is related to the activation of CD4+ T cells and increased association with other heat shock proteins, such as HSP90. Therefore, the current study confirms the enhanced immunogenicity of HSP70.PC derived from DC-tumor fusions and may provide direct evidence promoting their future clinical use.
肿瘤来源的热休克蛋白70-肽复合物(HSP70.PC-Tu)因其诸多优势在肿瘤免疫治疗中展现出巨大潜力。然而,大规模III期临床试验表明其有限的免疫原性仍有待提高。在先前的研究中,我们证明源自树突状细胞(DC)-肿瘤融合体的热休克蛋白70-肽复合物(HSP70.PC-Fc)与肿瘤细胞来源的HSP70.PC相比,具有增强的免疫原性。然而,我们先前研究中使用的DC是从健康供体而非患者群体中获得的。为了推动这些复合物的临床应用,在本研究中,HSP70.PC-Fc由患者来源的DC与患者来源的肿瘤细胞直接融合制备而成。我们的结果表明,与HSP70.PC-Tu相比,HSP70.PC-Fc引发了针对HSP70来源肿瘤的更强大免疫反应,包括增强的T细胞活化以及显示为抗原特异性和HLA限制性的CTL反应。我们的结果进一步表明,增强的免疫原性与CD4 + T细胞的活化以及与其他热休克蛋白(如HSP90)的结合增加有关。因此,本研究证实了源自DC-肿瘤融合体的HSP70.PC具有增强的免疫原性,并可能为促进其未来临床应用提供直接证据。