Endosomal Proteases Influence the Repertoire of MAGE-A3 Epitopes Recognized In vivo by CD4+ T Cells
2008; American Association for Cancer Research; Volume: 68; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1158/0008-5472.can-07-5233
ISSN1538-7445
AutoresJill Marturano, Renato Longhi, Vincenzo Russo, Maria Pia Protti,
Tópico(s)Immune Cell Function and Interaction
ResumoAbstract Little is known about the repertoire of MAGE-A3 CD4+ T-cell epitopes recognized in vivo by neoplastic patients and how antigen processing influences epitope formation. Here, we first show that MAGE-A3–specific CD4+ T cells are present in the blood of advanced melanoma patients. MAGE-A3111-125, MAGE-A3191-205, and MAGE-A3281-300 were recognized by 7, 6, and 5 of the 11 patients tested, respectively. MAGE-A3146-160 and MAGE-A3171-185 were also recognized in two and one cases, whereas no recognition of MAGE-A3161-175 and MAGE-A3243-258 was observed. Cytokines produced were mainly interleukin 5 and/or granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor, suggesting impairment of productive polarized Th1 responses. Secondly, proteases inhibitors were used to modulate in vitro the recognition by CD4+ T-cells clones of dendritic cells loaded with MAGE-A3–expressing cell lysates. We found that formation of MAGE-A3111-125 depended on both leupeptin-sensitive and pepstatin-sensitive proteases. In contrast, we found that MAGE-A3161-175, which was never recognized ex vivo, was formed by leupeptin but destroyed by pepstatin-sensitive proteases. Collectively, our results show that (a) anti–MAGE-A3 CD4+ T-cell immunity develops in vivo in neoplastic patients and is focused toward immunodominant epitopes, (b) the response in advanced disease is skewed toward a Th2 type, and (c) endosomal/lysosomal proteases in dendritic cells influence the repertoire of the epitopes recognized. [Cancer Res 2008;68(5):1555–62]
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