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. 2001 May 1;97(9):2764-71.
doi: 10.1182/blood.v97.9.2764.

Stimulation of autologous proliferative and cytotoxic T-cell responses by "leukemic dendritic cells" derived from blast cells in acute myeloid leukemia

B D Harrison  1 , J A Adams, M Briggs, M L Brereton, J A Yin
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Stimulation of autologous proliferative and cytotoxic T-cell responses by "leukemic dendritic cells" derived from blast cells in acute myeloid leukemia

B D Harrison et al. Blood. .
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Abstract

Effective presentation of tumor antigens is fundamental to strategies aimed at enrolling the immune system in eradication of residual disease after conventional treatments. Myeloid malignancies provide a unique opportunity to derive dendritic cells (DCs), functioning antigen-presenting cells, from the malignant cells themselves. These may then co-express leukemic antigens together with appropriate secondary signals and be used to generate a specific, antileukemic immune response. In this study, blasts from 40 patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were cultured with combinations of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, interleukin 4, and tumor necrosis factor alpha, and development to DCs was assessed. After culture, cells from 24 samples exhibited morphological and immunophenotypic features of DCs, including expression of major histocompatibility complex class II, CD1a, CD83, and CD86, and were potent stimulators in an allogeneic mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR). Stimulation of autologous T-cell responses was assessed by the proliferative response of autologous T cells to the leukemic DCs and by demonstration of the induction of specific, autologous, antileukemic cytotoxicity. Of 17 samples, 11 were effective stimulators in the autologous MLR, and low, but consistent, autologous, antileukemic cytotoxicity was induced in 8 of 11 cases (mean, 27%; range, 17%-37%). This study indicates that cells with enhanced antigen-presenting ability can be generated from AML blasts, that these cells can effectively prime autologous cytotoxic T cells in vitro, and that they may be used as potential vaccines in the immunotherapy of AML.

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