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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 184, Issue 11, Pages 5954-5958Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1000265
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- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- National Science Foundation
- Koch Research Fund
- National Institutes of Health [CA100875]
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The tumor environment exerts a powerful suppressive influence on infiltrating tumor-reactive T cells. It induces tolerance of adoptively transferred effector T cells as they enter tumors and maintains the tolerance of persisting tumor-infiltrating T cells. In an autochthonous prostate cancer model, in which tumor-reactive CD8 T cells are trackable, we demonstrate that both depletion of endogenous dendritic cells (DCs) and intratumoral injection of Ag-loaded mature DCs delayed the tolerization of tumor-infiltrating effector CD8 T cells. Intratumoral injection of Ag-loaded DCs also reactivated tolerized CD8 T cells in the tumor tissue. The observed effects lasted as long as the injected DCs persisted. These findings are consistent with a critical role of DCs in modulating T cell reactivity in the tumor environment. They also suggest new potential strategies to extend the functionality of transferred effector T cells and to restore function to tolerized tumor-infiltrating T cells for cancer immunotherapy. The Journal of Immunology, 2010, 184: 5954-5958.
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