Both innate and adaptive immunity are crucial for cancer immunosurveillance, but precise therapeutic equations to restore immunosurveillance in patients with cancer patients have yet to be developed. In murine models, a-galactosylceramide (a-GalCer)-loaded, tumor antigen-expressing syngeneic or allogeneic cells can act as cellular adjuvants, linking the innate and adaptive immune systems. In the current study, we established human artificial adjuvant vector cells (aAVC) consisting of human HEK293 embryonic kidney cells stably transfected with the natural killer T (NKT) immune cell receptor CD1d, loaded with the CD1d ligand a-GalCer and then transfected with antigen-encoding mRNA. When administered to mice or dogs, these aAVC-activated invariant NKT (iNKT) cells elicited antigen-specific T-cell responses with no adverse events. In parallel experiments, using NOD/SCID/IL-2rgc null -immunodeficient (hDC-NOG) mouse model, we also showed that the human melanoma antigen, MART-1, expressed by mRNA transfected aAVCs can be cross-presented to antigenspecific T cells by human dendritic cells. Antigen-specific T-cell responses elicited and expanded by aAVCs were verified as functional in tumor immunity. Our results support the clinical development of aAVCs to harness innate and adaptive immunity for effective cancer immunotherapy. Cancer Res; 73(1); 62-73. Ó2012 AACR.
PA28 is an IFN-γ-inducible proteasome activator and its genetic ablation causes complete loss of processing of certain Ags, but not all of them. The reason why this occurs and how PA28 influences the formation of peptide repertoires for MHC class I molecules remains unknown. In this study, we show the allele-specific role of PA28 in Ag processing. Retrovirus-transduced overexpression of PA28α decreased expression of Kd (Dd) while it increased Kb and Ld on the cell surface. By contrast, overexpression of PA28αΔC5, a mutant carrying a deletion of its five C-terminal residues and capable of attenuating the activity of endogenous PA28, produced the opposite effect on expression of those MHC class I molecules. Moreover, knockdown of both PA28α and β by small-interfering RNA profoundly augmented expression of Kd and Dd, but not of Ld, on the cell surface. Finally, we found that PA28-associated proteasome preferentially digested within epitopic sequences of Kd, although correct C-terminal flankings were removed, which in turn hampered production of Kd ligands. Our results indicate that whereas PA28 negatively influences processing of Kd (Dd) ligands, thereby, down-regulating Ag presentation by those MHC class I molecules, it also efficiently produces Kb (Ld) epitopes, leading to up-regulation of the MHC molecules.
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