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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228
Tumor cells that constitutively express MHC class I molecules and are genetically modified to express MHC class II (MHC II) and costimulatory molecules are immunogenic and have therapeutic efficacy against established primary and metastatic cancers in syngeneic mice and activate tumor-specific human CD4+ T lymphocytes. Previous studies have indicated that these MHC II vaccines enhance immunity by directly activating tumor-specific CD4+ T cells during the immunization process. Because dendritic cells (DCs) are considered to be the most efficient APCs, we have now examined the role of DCs in CD4+ T cell activation by the MHC II vaccines. Surprisingly, we find that DCs are essential for MHC II vaccine immunogenicity; however, they mediate their effect through "cross-dressing." Cross-dressing, or peptide-MHC (pMHC) transfer, involves the generation of pMHC complexes within the vaccine cells, and their subsequent transfer to DCs, which then present the intact, unprocessed complexes to CD4+ T lymphocytes. The net result is that DCs are the functional APCs; however, the immunogenic pMHC complexes are generated by the tumor cells. Because MHC II vaccine cells do not express the MHC II accessory molecules invariant chain and DM, they are likely to load additional tumor Ag epitopes onto MHC II molecules and therefore activate a different repertoire of T cells than DCs. These data further the concept that transfer of cellular material to DCs is important in Ag presentation, and they have direct implications for the design of cancer vaccines.
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