T-Cell-Dependent Antitumor Effects Produced by CD40 Ligand
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Cancer Gene Therapy (2003) 10, 451–456 r 2003 Nature Publishing Group All rights reserved 0929-1903/03 $25.00 www.nature.com/cgt T-cell-dependent antitumor effects produced by CD40 ligand expressed on mouse lung carcinoma cells are linked with the maturation of dendritic cells and secretion of a variety of cytokines Yuji Tada,1,2 Jiyang O-Wang,1 Ling Yu,1 Osamu Shimozato,1 Yan-Qing Wang,1 Yuichi Takiguchi,2 Koichiro Tatsumi,2 Takayuki Kuriyama,2 Keizo Takenaga,3 Shigeru Sakiyama,1 and Masatoshi Tagawa1 1Division of Pathology, Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute, 666-2 Nitona, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8717, Japan; 2Department of Respirology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; and 3Division of Chemotherapy, Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute, 666-2 Nitona, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8717, Japan. CD40/CD40 ligand (CD40L) interaction plays an essential role in cell-mediated immune responses. We examined whether expression of CD40L in murine lung carcinoma (A11) cells could produce antitumor effects. The proliferation rate in vitro of A11 cells transfected with the murine CD40L gene (A11/CD40L) was not different from that of parent cells; however, half of the immunocompetent mice inoculated with A11/CD40L cells did not form tumors and the growth of A11/CD40L tumors developed in the rest of mice was significantly retarded compared with that of parent tumors. Protective immunity was also induced in the mice that had rejected A11/CD40L cells. In T-cell-defective nude mice, these antitumor effects were not observed. Bone-marrow-derived dendritic cells (DCs), when cultured with A11/CD40L cells, formed clusters with the tumors and showed upregulated CD86 expression. Expression of the interleukin-23 (IL-23) p19, IL-12p35, IL-18, interferon-g (IFN-g) and Mig (monokine induced by IFN-g) genes was induced in the DCs that were cultured with A11/CD40L but not with A11 cells, and P40, the subunit of both IL-12 and IL- 23, was secreted from the cocultured DCs. These data directly showed that the expression of CD40L in tumors facilitated the interaction between DCs and the tumors, enhanced the maturation of DCs, induced secretion of cytokines, and consequently produced T-cell-dependent systemic immunity. Cancer Gene Therapy (2003) 10, 451–456. doi:10.1038/sj.cgt.7700584 Keywords: CD40 ligand; dendritic cells; IL-12; IL-23; lung cancer D40 is a receptor of CD40 ligand (CD40L) and is highly regulated thereby plays an essential role(s) in Cexpressed on antigen-presenting cells such as B cells initiating immune responses.4 and dendritic cells (DCs). CD40L is transiently expressed Forced expression of CD40L on nonlymphoid could on activated CD4+ T cells and the CD40/CD40L activate systemic immune responses and previous studies interaction triggers a number of events that are pro- demonstrated that transfer of CD40L gene into solid foundly related with cardinal processes of antigen tumors produced antitumor effects against the tumors.5–7 presentation; secretion of IL-12,1 which can polarize Expressed CD40L on B-cell leukemia also induced immune responses to a T helper type 1 (Th1)-dominant antitumor activity and the strategy has been investigated state; production of proinflammatory cytokines;2 and for its clinical feasibility and effectiveness to treat chronic upregulation of costimulatory molecules such as CD86, lymphocytic leukemia.8 The mechanism of CD40L- which enhances cognate interactions between T and mediated antitumor effects was suggested to be because antigen-presenting cells.3 CD40L whose expression is of the activation of DCs and subsequent generation of cytotoxic T cells.5–8 Recent studies also showed that adenovirus-mediated transfer of the CD40L gene into 9,10 Received December 6, 2002. DCs produced antitumor effects. However, the Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Dr Masatoshi direct interaction between CD40L-expressed tumors Tagawa, Division of Pathology, Chiba Cancer Center Research and DCs has not been precisely analyzed. Inoculation of Institute, 666-2 Nitona, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8717, Japan. E-mail: tumors alone may produce inflammatory cyotokines [email protected] that activate DCs and transduction with empty Antitumor effects by expressed CD40L Y Tada et al 452 adenovirus alone can activate DCs and enhance the Production of IFN-g antigen acquisition.11 Spleen cells from naive or A11/CD40L-rejected mice In this study, we examined the antitumor effects of (4  107) were cultured for 11 days with A11 cells murine lung carcinoma A11 cells transduced with the irradiated with 100 Gy (4  106). Living cells were then CD40L gene and investigated the interaction between the collected with lympholyte-M (Cedarlane, Hornby, Ont., CD40L-expressed tumors and bone marrow-derived DCs. Canada) and they (2  106/well) were cultured with 100- We found that purified DCs were directly activated by the Gy irradiated A11 cells (2  105/well) in 24-well plates for CD40L-expressed tumors and secreted a variety of 24 hours. The amounts of IFN-g in the culture super- cytokines including a novel cytokine interleukin-23 (IL- natants were measured with an enzyme-linked immuno- 23), which enhances proliferation of memory T cells and sorbent assay (BioSource, Camarillo, CA). production of IFN-g from activated T cells.12 Preparation of DCs and culture with tumors Materials and methods Bone marrow cells from tibias and femurs were depleted of erythrocytes with hypotonic buffer containing 0.15 M Cells and mice NH4Cl, 1 mM KHCO3, and 0.1 mM EDTA (pH 7.4). High-metastatic A11 cells were established from Lewis Macrophages, T and B cells were removed with biotiny- lung carcinoma.13 They were cultured in Dulbecco’s lated antibodies for CD4, CD8, B220, TER119, and modified Eagle’s medium supplemented with 10% heat- CD11b, and streptavidin-conjugated magnetic beads. inactivated fetal calf serum. C57BL/6 and BALB/c nu/nu These cells were further incubated at 371C for 2 hours to nude mice (6- to 8-week-old female) were purchased from remove adherent cells and then cultured in RPMI1640 Japan SLC (Hamamatsu, Japan). medium supplemented with recombinant mouse GM-CSF and IL-4 (20 ng/ml each, PeproTech, London, UK), and Establishment of CD40L-expressed cells 10% fetal calf serum for 10 days. Nonadherent cells were harvested and used as DCs. PKH67-labeled tumor cells A11 cells were transfected with the full-length mouse (2  105/well) were cultured with DCs (6  105/well) in 24- CD40L cDNA and then G418 (Life Technologies, well plates for 24 hours and the number of cluster was Gaithersburg, MD) resistant cells were selected. They examined with a fluorescence microscope. were examined for their expression of CD40L with flow cytometry. G418-resistant A11 cells transfected with vector DNA pMKITneo were used as a control. Detection of secreted P40 subunit and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Flow cytometry DCs (6  105/well) were cultured with tumor cells 5 Tumor cells were incubated with fluorescein-isothiocya- (2  10 /well) in 24-well plates for 24 hours and the nate (FITC)-conjugated anti-CD40L antibody (PharMin- concentrations of P40 in the culture supernatants were gen, San Diego, CA) at room temperature for 20 minutes. determined with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay Isotype-matched control antibody labeled with FITC was (BioSource, Camarillo, CA). First strand cDNA was used for the background staining. Bone marrow-derived synthesized with RNA that was extracted from cultured DCs were cultured with tumor cells that were labeled with cells. Amplification of an equal amount of respective PKH67 (Sigma, St Louis, MO) for 12 hours and then cDNA was performed for 30 cycles with the following stained with phycoerythrin-conjugated anti-CD86 anti- primers and conditions: for p19 gene expression, forward (50-CACAGAGCCAGCCAGATCTGAGAAGC-30) and body (Caltag, Burlingame, CA). As a control, DCs were 0 also incubated with 10 mg/ml lipopolysaccharide (LPS) for reverse (5 -CCATGGGAACCTGGGCATCCTTAAGC- 0 1 12 hours. The stained cells were analyzed with FACScan 3 ) primers, and 15 seconds at 94 C for denaturation/ 1 1 (Becton Dickinson, Mountain View, CA) with CellQuest 30 seconds at 60 C for primer annealing/1 minute at 72 C software (Becton Dickinson). for primer extension: for p35 gene expression, forward (50-ACCTGCTGAAGACCACAGATG-30) and reverse (50-TTTCACTCTGTAAGGGTCTGC-30) primers, and Animal experiments 15 seconds at 941C/30 seconds at 531C/1 minute at Parent or transfected cells (2  105) were subcutaneously 721C; for IL-18 gene expression, forward (50-ATTACTC- inoculated into syngeneic or nude mice. Tumor volumes GAGGAACAATGGCTGCCATGTC-30) and reverse were calculated according to the formula, tumor (50-ATTACTCGAGAAGGCGCATGTGTGCTAATC- volume ¼ 0.5  a  b2, where a and b are the larger and 30) primers, and 30 seconds at 941C/30 seconds at 601C/ the smaller diameter, respectively. For spontaneous lung 1 minute at 721C; for IFN-g gene expression forward metastasis, parent and transfected cells (2  105) were (50-TGCGGCCTAGCTCTGAGACAATG-30)andreverse subcutaneously injected into the abdominal flank of mice. (50-TGAATGCTTGGCGCTGGACCTG-30) primers, The lungs were fixed with Bouin’s solution and the and 30 seconds at 941C/30 seconds at 601C/1 minute at number of metastatic nodules was counted on day 28.13 721C; for monokine induced by IFN-g (Mig) gene Statistical analysis was performed by one-way analysis of expression, forward (50-GACATTCTCGGACTT- variance (ANOVA). CACTC-30) and reverse (50-GATTCAGGGTGCTTGT- Cancer Gene Therapy Antitumor effects by expressed CD40L Y Tada et al 453 TGGT-30) primers, and 5 seconds at 951C/10 seconds at Table 1 Production IFN-g from spleen cells that were stimulated 551C/1 minute at 721C; for glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate with irradiated A11 cells dehydrogenase (GAPDH) 0 gene expression, forward (5 - 7 ACCACAGTCCATGCCATCAC-30) and reverse (50- Spleen cells from IFN-g SE (pg/ml) TCCACCACCCTGTTGCTGTA-30) primers, and 15 sec- 7 a onds at 941C/15 seconds at 601C/40 seconds at 721C.