The Journal of Immunology, Vol 154, Issue 9 4613-4622, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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Rat mammary adenocarcinoma 13762 expressing IFN-gamma elicits antitumor CD4+ MHC class II-restricted T cells that are cytolytic in vitro and tumoricidal in vivo

AB Frey
Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, NY 10016, USA.

Rat adenocarcinoma 13762 was modified by transfection to express IFN- gamma, and the tumor-forming potential of cytokine-producing cells was found to be dramatically impaired. Animals resistant to inocula of IFN- gamma-modified tumor were resistant to subsequent challenge with unmodified 13762 tumor. Induced immunity was tumor specific in that syngeneic but non-cross-reactive tumor grew with normal kinetics in animals injected with IFN-gamma-producing 13762 tumor. Antitumor T cells were derived from animals primed with IFN-gamma-producing 13762 tumor and expanded into a cell line by coculture in vitro with IFN- gamma-producing 13762 cells. Anti-13762-gamma T cells were cytotoxic in vitro toward IFN-gamma-producing 13762 tumor and were not reactive with other syngeneic tumors or spleen B cells. Anti-13762-gamma T cells were determined to be CD4+ by Ab staining and flow cytometric analysis, and recognition of 13762-gamma in vitro was inhibited by anti-MHC class II Ab. Anti-13762-gamma T cells were not reactive in vitro with wild-type 13762 tumor unless treated with exogenous rIFN-gamma, which induced expression of cell surface MHC class II. However, adoptively transferred anti-13762-gamma T cells could effect regression of wild- type 13762 tumor or dramatically inhibit progressive growth in animals carrying significant tumor burden, and the antitumor phenotype did not require CD8+ T cells in vivo. These experiments demonstrate that although antitumor T cells elicited against cytokine-modified tumor may fail to demonstrate reactivity with unmodified tumor in vitro, antitumor properties may be manifest in vivo.

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