Van Waes C, Urban J L, Rothstein J L, Ward P L, Schreiber H
J Exp Med. 1986 Nov 1;164(5):1547-65. doi: 10.1084/jem.164.5.1547.
We have studied the components of a complex of tumor-specific antigens to determine if all of the components of the complex were lost during progression from a rather benign regressor tumor to a highly malignant (HM) cancer. We find that the HM tumor cells have lost antigens recognized by CTL but retained antigens recognized by Th cells. Immunization with variants expressing Th-defined antigens induced tumor-specific immunity to challenge with a parental variant that expressed a CTL-recognized target antigen, but did not induce immunity to challenge with the variant that expressed the Th-defined antigen alone. Together, these findings suggested that Th cells fail to exert direct selective pressure upon the tumor, resulting in retention of "lineage-specific," Th-recognized antigens by highly immunoselected variants. Possible advantage could be taken of this fact for the development of specific immunotherapy.
我们研究了肿瘤特异性抗原复合物的成分,以确定在从相对良性的消退性肿瘤进展为高度恶性(HM)癌症的过程中,该复合物的所有成分是否都会丢失。我们发现,HM肿瘤细胞已失去被细胞毒性T淋巴细胞(CTL)识别的抗原,但保留了被辅助性T细胞(Th细胞)识别的抗原。用表达Th细胞定义抗原的变体进行免疫,可诱导肿瘤特异性免疫,从而抵御表达CTL识别的靶抗原的亲本变体的攻击,但不能诱导抵御仅表达Th细胞定义抗原的变体的攻击。这些发现共同表明,Th细胞未能对肿瘤施加直接的选择压力,导致高度免疫选择的变体保留了“谱系特异性”的、Th细胞识别的抗原。利用这一事实可能有利于开发特异性免疫疗法。