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Establishment of Epstein-Barr Virus Growth-transformed Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines
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Published on: November 8, 2011

Human dendritic cells pulsed with autologous Epstein-Barr virus transformed B-cell lymphoblastoid cell (BCL) lysate

M Sugano1, T F Conway, R J Kelleher

  • 1Dept. of Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA.

Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research : CR
|August 4, 2001
PubMed

Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) associated lymphoproliferative disorders (LPD) express EBV latent antigens that are also expressed on normal B-cells transformed with EBV. This could potentially be exploited to develop immunotherapeutic strategies for LPD and other EBV associated malignancies. To this end we investigated the capacity of human monocyte derived dendritic cells (DC) pulsed with lysate from autologous EBV transformed B-cell lymphoblastoid cell (BCL) lysate to elicit an in vitro antitumor response. BCL lysate pulsed DC generate BCL specific cytotoxic lymphocytes, as lymphocytes primed with such DCs induce cytolysis of autologous (>60%) but not allogeneic BCL (<5%). In addition, lymphocytes primed with BCL lysate pulsed DC secrete gamma-IFN (3176 pg/ml). Whereas gamma-IFN production was markedly reduced (>99%) when BCL specific T-cells were stimulated by BCL lysate pulsed DC in the presence of blocking antibodies to HLA-DR, DP and DQ, use of antibodies to MHC class-I resulted in only a minimal reduction in gamma-IFN production (17%). These studies demonstrate that BCL lysate pulsed DC elicit a predominantly BCL specific, MHC class-Il restricted T cell response. This suggests that vaccination with autologous BCL lysate pulsed DC may represent a viable immunotherapeutic approach for the treatment of LPD.

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