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Preparation of murine B7.1-glycosylphosphatidylinositol and transmembrane-anchored staphylococcal enterotoxin : A dual-anchored tumor cell vaccine and its antitumor effect

✍ Scribed by Pingyong Yi; Hai Yu; Wenxue Ma; Qingqing Wang; Boris R. Minev


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
238 KB
Volume
103
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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Abstract

BACKGROUND

The authors have previously reported a tumor cell vaccine modified with superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) and its antitumor effect. The tumor cell vaccines modified with multiple immune activators frequently elicited stronger immune responses against established tumors than single‐modified vaccines.

METHODS

The authors explored the effectiveness of a tumor cell vaccine transduced with immune activators, dual‐modified using the protein transfer technique. First, a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)‐anchored murine B7.1 (mB7.1‐GPI) and a transmembrane‐anchored SEA (TM‐SEA) were genetically generated. Then, the murine lymphoma EL4 cells were dual modified with the incorporation of mB7.1‐GPI and TM‐SEA onto the cell surface. Flow cytometry and laser confocal microscopy showed that the incorporation of B7.1 and SEA molecules onto EL4 cells was quite stable.

RESULTS

The dual‐modified tumor cell vaccine EL4/mB7.1‐GPI + TM‐SEA elicited significantly stronger antitumor immune responses both in vitro and in vivo when compared with the single‐modified tumor cell vaccines EL4/mB7.1‐GPI and EL4/TM‐SEA.

CONCLUSIONS

The results of the current study validated the novel approach for preparing tumor cell vaccines modified with dual immune active molecules using the protein transfer technique, and supported the feasibility and effectiveness of the dual‐modified tumor cell vaccine. Cancer 2005. © 2005 American Cancer Society.