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The Journal of Immunology, 2004, 172: 3480-3490.
Copyright © 2004 by The American Association of Immunologists

Degradation of NF-{kappa}B in T Cells by Gangliosides Expressed on Renal Cell Carcinomas1

Mark V. Thornton*, Daisuke Kudo*, Patricia Rayman*, Claudine Horton{dagger}, Luis Molto*,||, Martha K. Cathcart{dagger}, Christopher Ng*,{ddagger}, Ewa Paszkiewicz-Kozik*,#, Ronald Bukowski§, Ithaar Derweesh{ddagger}, Charles S. Tannenbaum* and James H. Finke2,*

Departments of * Immunology and {dagger} Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, {ddagger} Glickman Urological Institute and § Experimental Therapeutics, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195; Department of Urology, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan; || Hospital Clinico "San Carlos," Servicio de Immunologia, Madrid, Spain; and # Department of Hematology and Oncology, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center, Warsaw, Poland

T cells from cancer patients are often functionally impaired, which imposes a barrier to effective immunotherapy. Most pronounced are the alterations characterizing tumor-infiltrating T cells, which in renal cell carcinomas includes defective NF-{kappa}B activation and a heightened sensitivity to apoptosis. Coculture experiments revealed that renal tumor cell lines induced a time-dependent decrease in RelA(p65) and p50 protein levels within both Jurkat T cells and peripheral blood T lymphocytes that coincided with the onset of apoptosis. The degradation of RelA/p50 is critical for SK-RC-45-induced apoptosis because overexpression of RelA in Jurkat cells protects against cell death. The loss of RelA/p50 coincided with a decrease in expression of the NF-{kappa}B regulated antiapoptotic protein Bcl-xL at both the protein and mRNA level. The disappearance of RelA/p50 protein was mediated by a caspase-dependent pathway because pretreatment of T lymphocytes with a pan caspase inhibitor before coculture with SK-RC-45 blocked RelA and p50 degradation. SK-RC-45 gangliosides appear to mediate this degradative pathway, as blocking ganglioside synthesis in SK-RC-45 cells with the glucosylceramide synthase inhibitor, PPPP, protected T cells from tumor cell-induced RelA degradation and apoptosis. The ability of the Bcl-2 transgene to protect Jurkat cells from RelA degradation, caspase activation, and apoptosis implicates the mitochondria in these SK-RC-45 ganglioside-mediated effects.


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