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Authors: SHAWLER, D. L.¹; BARTHOLOMEW, R. M.²; GARRETT, M. A.¹; TRAUGER, R. J.²; DORIGO, O.¹; BEVEREN, C. VAN¹; MARCHESE, A.²; FERRE, F.²; DUFFY, C.²; CARLO, D. J.²; SHERMAN, L. A.³; GOLD, D. P.¹; SOBOL, R. E.¹

Source: Clinical & Experimental Immunology, Volume 129, Number 1, July 2002 , pp. 99-106(8)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:

SUMMARY

We report the immunological characterization of three colon carcinoma cell lines, COLO 205, SW620 and SW403, which we selected to combine with cytokine-secreting fibroblasts for the development of an allogeneic tumour cell vaccine. The cell lines expressed HLA-A2 as well as shared tumour-associated antigens (TAAs) representative of colon carcinomas: CEA, Ep-CAM, MUC1, HER2/neu and MAGE antigens. They did not secrete high levels of the immunosuppressive factors TGF-β, IL-10 or prostaglandins. The lines presented TAAs in a manner recognized by immune effector cells, which was demonstrated by the lysis of SW620 by HLA-A2-restricted anti-p53 cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). COLO 205 and SW620 were genetically modified to express the co-stimulatory molecule CD80 (B7.1), which increased the ability of the cells to stimulate CTL in vitro. CTL clones derived from HLA-A2⁺ peripheral blood mononuclear cells stimulated with the CD80-expressing lines lysed the stimulator cell and an HLA-A2⁺ colon cancer cell line, but did not lyse an isogeneic fibroblast line or an HLA-A2⁻ colon cancer cell line. CTL clones derived from colon carcinoma patients immunized with an allogeneic vaccine containing these lines demonstrated killing of autologous tumour cells, the vaccine cell lines and other HLA-A2⁺ colon cancer cell lines, but not fibroblasts isogeneic to certain of the target cell lines. Our studies demonstrate that these colon carcinoma cell lines express shared TAAs that can induce CTLs which recognize and lyse other colon carcinoma cells, and support the continued clinical evaluation of the CD80 gene modified allogeneic colon cell/cytokine-secreting fibroblast carcinoma vaccine.

Keywords: gene therapy immunotherapy tumor vaccines colon carcinoma

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2002.01863.x

Affiliations: 1: The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Clemma A. Hewitt Gene Therapy Laboratory, San Diego, 2: The Immune Response Corporation, Carlsbad and 3: The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Immunology, La Jolla, CA, USA

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Antigenic and immunologic characterization of an allogeneic colon carcinoma vaccine