腫瘍の微小環境内のイオン免疫抑制はT細胞エフェクター機能を制限する
Robert Eil1, Suman K Vodnala1, David Clever1
1National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
Nature
|September 15, 2016
まとめ
腫瘍の死滅により カリウムが放出され T細胞の機能が抑制されます T細胞のKv1. 3チャネルを過剰に発現させると,抗腫瘍免疫が強化され,メラノーマの生存率が向上する.
科学分野:
- 免疫学
- 癌 生物学
- 細胞生理学
背景:
- 腫瘍の進行はT細胞の浸透にもかかわらず起こります
- 腫瘍における細胞死は,患者の生存率の低下と相関する.
- 細胞内成分が放出され,腫瘍の微小環境に影響を及ぼす可能性があります.
研究 の 目的:
- T細胞機能に対する死滅誘発性細胞外カリウムの影響を調査する.
- カリウム媒介によるT細胞抑制の基礎となる分子機構を明らかにする.
- 癌の免疫療法におけるカリウムレベルを標的とした治療戦略を探求する.
主な方法:
- マウスとヒトの腫瘍における細胞外カリウム濃度 ([K+]e) の分析.
- T細胞受容体 (TCR) によるAkt-mTOR酸化の評価
- T細胞エフェクタプログラムの in vitro および in vivo 機能的測定
- カリウムチャネルKvを過剰発現させるためのT細胞の遺伝子操作1.3
主要な成果:
- ネクロスによる細胞外カリウム ([K+]e) の増加はT細胞エフェクタ機能を抑制する.
- 高濃度の[K+]eは,フォスファタゼPP2AによるAkt-mTORシグナル伝達を阻害する.
- 抑制には,プラズマ膜ポテンシャル (Vm) にかかわらず,細胞内カリウム ([K+]i) の増加が必要である.
- Kv1. 3の過剰発現は,T細胞機能と腫瘍クリアランスを改善する.
結論:
- ネクロシス誘発性高カリミアは,抗腫瘍T細胞反応を抑制する"イオンチェックポイント"を生成する.
- カリウムの流出をターゲットにすることは 癌の免疫療法を強化するための新しい戦略です
- T細胞のカリウムレベルを調節することで,腫瘍の根絶と患者の生存率を向上させることができます.
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