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B in T Cells by Gangliosides Expressed on Renal Cell Carcinomas1





Departments of
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Immunology and
Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute,
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-
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-
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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