2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The study for inhibition of the melanoma-derived factors and for efficient elicitation of the host immunity
Project/Area Number |
17591181
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Dermatology
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Research Institution | Jichi Medical University |
Principal Investigator |
MURAKAMI Takashi Jichi Medical University, School of Medicine, Associate Professor (00326852)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KOBAYASHI Eiji JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, School of Medicine, Professor (00245044)
OHTSUKI Mamitaro JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, School of Medicine, Professor (90185330)
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Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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Keywords | Melanoma / Tumor immunology / vaccine / Histone deacetylase inhibitor / Adontive immune cell transfer / Interferon-lambda |
Research Abstract |
With melanoma, as with many other malignancies, aberrant transcriptional repression is a hallmark of refractory cancer. To restore gene expression, use of a histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) is expected to be effective. Our recent DNA micro-array analysis showed that the HDACi depsipeptide (FK228) significantly enhances gp100 antigen expression. Herein, we demonstrate that depsipeptide promotes tumor-specific T-cell-mediated killing of B16/F10 murine melanoma cells. Firstly, by a quantitative assay of caspase-3/7 activity, a sublethal dose of depsipeptide was determined (ED50: 5 nM), in which p21^<Waf1/Cip1> and Fas were sufficiently evoked concomitantly with histone H3 acetylation. Secondly, the sublethal dose of depsipeptide treatment with either a recombinant Fas ligand or tumor-specific T cells synergistically enhanced apoptotic cell death in B16/F10 cells in vitro. Furthermore, we found that depsipeptide increased levels of perforin in T cells. Finally, in vivo metastatic growth of B16/F10 in the lung was significantly inhibited by a combination of depsipeptide treatment and immune cell adoptive transfer from immunized mice using irradiated B16 cells and gp100-specific (Pmel-1) T-cell receptor transgenic mice (p<0.05, vs. cell transfer alone). Consequently, employment of a transcriptional modulation strategy using HDACis might prove to be a useful pretreatment for human melanoma immunotherapy. Furthermore, the latest members of the class II cytokine family, IFN-lambda induced both tumor apoptosis and NK cell-mediated immunological tumor destruction through innate immune responses. We demonstrated that local delivery of IFN-lambda might prove a useful adjunctive strategy in the clinical treatment of human malignancies.
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Research Products
(47 results)
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[Journal Article] Small numbers of residual tumor cells at the site of primary inoculation are critical for anti-tumor immunity following challenge at a secondary location2007
Author(s)
Kakinuma T, Nadiminti H, Lonsdorf, AS, Murakami T, Perez, BA, Kobayashi H, Finkelstein, SE, Pothiawala G, Belkaid Y, Hwang, ST
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Journal Title
Cancer Immunol Immunother 56(7)
Pages: 1119-1131
Description
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[Journal Article] Essential Roles of Sphingosine 1-phosphate/1P1 Receptor Axis in the Migration of Neural Stem Cells toward a Site of Spinal Cord Injury2007
Author(s)
Kimura A, Ohmori T, Ohkawa R, Madoiwa S, Mimuro J, Murakami T, Kobayashi E, Hoshino Y, Yatomi Y, Sakata, Y
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Journal Title
Stem Cells 25(1)
Pages: 115-124
Description
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