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The Journal of Immunology, 1999, 162: 609-617.
Copyright © 1999 by The American Association of Immunologists

High Frequency of Specific CD8+ T Cells in the Tumor and Blood Is Associated with Efficient Local IL-12 Gene Therapy of Cancer1

Nadine C. Fernandez2,*, Jean-Pierre Levraud2,{dagger}, Hédi Haddada*, Michel Perricaudet* and Philippe Kourilsky3,{dagger}

* Laboratoire de Vectorologie et Transfert de Gènes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Unité Mixte de Recherche 1582, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France; {dagger} Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 277, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Cancer immunotherapy often aims at the reactivation and expansion of tumor-specific CTL. In an attempt to correlate in situ and/or systemic tumor-specific T cell expansion with tumor regression, we investigated the effects of adenovirus-mediated IL-12 or IFN-{gamma} gene transfer into established P815 murine tumors. While IFN-{gamma} was no more potent than the vector alone, IL-12 gene transfer promoted tumor eradication. Despite this antitumor effect, no significant cytolytic activity was detectable using classical cytotoxicity assays from in vitro restimulated splenocytes. Since intratumor gene delivery may induce a localized expansion of CTL, the presence of P815-specific CD8+ T cells in situ was assessed. Using the Immunoscope approach, we found a dramatic increase in clonotypic T cells at the tumor site following IL-12, but not IFN-{gamma} gene delivery. Antitumor CD8+ T cell frequencies were then re-evaluated using this molecular detection technique, which revealed a comparable expansion of specific T cells in the peripheral organs, most strikingly in the blood. These data show that local IL-12 gene transfer, in contrast to IFN-{gamma}, mediates a potent antitumor effect that correlates to clonal tumor-specific T cell expansions in situ and in the periphery.




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