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Department of Pathology and Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Despite the lack of classical costimulation provided by the majority of tumor cells, some reports demonstrate that antitumor CTL may be generated by direct priming by tumor cells (8, 9, 10). Although one report demonstrated that this did not require signaling through CD28 (11), the mechanism by which tumor cells were able to provide costimulation was unclear. In general, the requirement for CD28 signaling in the activation of CD8+ T cells is less apparent than for CD4+ T cells. Alternative CD28-independent pathways for T cell priming are therefore of interest when examining mechanisms of direct priming by tumor cells.
In vivo priming of tumor-specific CD8+ T cells has been shown to occur by either cross-presentation of tumor Ag (12, 13, 14, 15) or by direct presentation (8, 9, 10). Current evidence demonstrates that direct priming requires tumor cells to be present in the lymph node (9, 16). Although for cross-priming, Ag is carried into the lymph node (16) where it is presented by professional APC that then provide costimulatory signals through CD28-dependent pathways (11). It seems likely however, that both direct and indirect pathways may contribute to T cell priming (10, 11, 16), where they may play roles at different stages of tumor development. Thus, it is possible that Ag available for cross-priming may precede Ag availability for direct priming. The mechanism by which naive antitumor CD8+ T cells are activated is therefore clearly of interest. Firstly, activation may lead to the induction of tolerance or result in the generation of effector cells. Secondly, direct priming may be associated with the presentation of different epitopes other than those made available by cross-presentation, thereby affecting the repertoire of T cells able to make an antitumor response.
In this study we examine the consequences of direct CD8+ T cell interactions with tumor cells. Murine renal carcinoma (Renca) cells (17) were transfected with the hemagglutinin (HA)3 gene from influenza virus A/PR/8 to generate cell lines expressing high, intermediate, and low levels of HA protein. The use of transgenic clone 4 CD8+ T cells, expressing a high avidity TCR specific for the immunodominant Kd-restricted epitope of HA (518-IYSTVASSL-526) (18) has enabled us to study the results of naive CD8+ T cell interaction with tumor cells both in vitro and in vivo.
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BALB/c mice and BALB/c clone 4 TCR transgenic mice (18) were bred under specific pathogen-free conditions at the University of Bristol animal facility. All experiments were conducted in accordance with U.K. Home Office guidelines.
Transfection and cloning of HA-expressing cell lines
The RCL3 cell line was single cell-cloned from a population of Renca cells (17) (originally obtained from Dr. H. Levitsky, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) and termed RencaNT. Cells were grown in routine medium (RPMI 1640, 10% v/v FCS, 2 mM glutamine, 50 U/ml penicillin/streptomycin, 5 x 10–5 M 2-ME).
For transfection, 2.4 x 106 RencaNT cells were electroporated at 180 V, 975 µF with 20 µg of the pKG10 expression vector (a gift from Dr. K. G. Gould, Imperial College, London, U.K.) for HA (influenza A/PR8/34). Some 72 h later, cells were passaged into routine medium containing 1 mg/ml geneticin G418 and cultured for 2 wk. Resulting colonies were ring cloned, expanded and tested for HA expression. Colonies that stained positively for HA were single cell cloned to produce cell lines expressing different levels of HA; Renca HAhigh, Renca HAint, Renca HAlow. These cell lines were maintained in routine medium supplemented with 0.1 mg/ml geneticin (Invitrogen Life Technologies).
Characterization of cell lines
Cells were stained for HA expression using 37/38 Abs followed by goat anti-mouse IgG-FITC (Sigma-Aldrich) secondary Ab. Cells were analyzed using a FACSCalibur (BD Biosciences) flow cytometer.
For RT-PCR, total RNA was isolated from cell lines using an SV total RNA isolation kit (Promega) and cDNA synthesized using a cDNA synthesis kit (Invitrogen Life Technologies). PCR was conducted for HA and actin using the following primers: HA 5'-CAATTGGGGAAATGTAACATCGCCG-3', 5'-AGCTTTGGGTATGAGCCCTCCTTC-3'; actin 5'-GTTACCAACTGGGACGACA-3', 5'-TGGCCATCTCCTGCTCGAA3'. Cycling conditions were 94°C/5 min, 28 cycles for 94°C/30 s, 61°C/30 s (HA) or 50°C/30 s (actin), and 72°C/60 s.
Cell lines were cultured in routine medium alone, or supplemented with 10 ng/ml recombinant IFN-
for 48 h, and then stained for cell surface markers using the following mAb (all BD Pharmingen), anti-ICAM-1 FITC, anti-H-2Kd PE, anti-CD11a FITC, anti-CD80 biotin, anti-CD86 biotin, purified anti-4-1BBL, and OX40 ligand (OX40L) biotin. Biotinylated mAbs were detected using Streptavidin-PE. Purified mAb was detected with anti-rat IgG-FITC (Vector Laboratories). Cells were analyzed using a FACSCalibur flow cytometer.
Coculture assays
A total of 1 x 105 Renca cells were cultured with 1 x 106 clone 4 CD8+ T cells (18). Clone 4 T cells were isolated from clone 4 TCR transgenic mice by positive selection using anti-CD8 MACS beads on midiMACS (Miltenyi Biotec) columns. This routinely gave a purity of CD8+ T cells >95%. Clone 4 T cells were also purified by flow cytometric cell sorting (FACSVantage) using mAbs against CD8
and Thy1.1. T cells were then cocultured for 48 h, and the supernatants and T cells harvested from the cultures.
For blocking experiments cocultures were set up as described in the presence of an LFA-1 blocking mAb 30 µg/ml purified anti-CD11a (BD Pharmingen) or purified mouse IgG2a
isotype (BD Pharmingen) Ab. For ICAM-1 blocking experiments cocultures were set up in the presence of 10 µg/ml purified anti-ICAM-1 mAb (R&D Systems) or total goat anti-mouse isotype (R&D Systems) mAbs. Statistical analyses were performed using the Student t test.
Flow cytometric analysis of cells from cocultures
Clone 4 T cells were stained with anti-CD8 FITC mAb (BD Pharmingen), tetramer PE (H-2Kd HA; Proimmune), and anti-CD69 biotin mAb (BD Pharmingen), followed by Streptavidin-Allophycocyanin (BD Pharmingen). Cells were analyzed on a FACSCalibur.
IFN- ELISA
Supernatants from cocultures were analyzed for IFN- by ELISA. Plates were coated with purified anti-IFN- mAb (BD Pharmingen), blocked with 1% BSA in PBS, and incubated with supernatants or standard recombinant IFN- for 3 h, followed by biotinylated anti-IFN- biotin mAb (BD Pharmingen). Bound biotinylated mAb was detected by incubation with ExtrAvidin-HRP (Sigma-Aldrich) followed by incubation with tetramethylbenzidine substrate (Sigma-Aldrich). The reaction was stopped with 2 M H2SO4. Absorbance was read at 450 nm with a 595 nm reference.
Cytotoxicity assay
CTL targets were prepared by incubating 150 µCi/106 cells of sodium [51Cr]chromate (Amersham Biosciences) at 37°C, for 2 h in the presence or absence of 5 µg/ml HA(518–526) peptide. Target cells were washed and seeded into 96-well plates at 1 x 104 cells/well in routine medium. Clone 4 T cells were harvested from cultures washed and seeded into duplicate wells containing the appropriate target cells at various E:T ratios. Plates were incubated at 37°C in a humidified incubator with 5% v/v CO2 for 18 h. Some 50 µl of supernatant was removed from each well, mixed with 150 µl of Ultima Gold scintillation fluid (PerkinElmer) and read on a Wallac 1450 Microbeta liquid scintillation counter. The percentage of specific lysis was determined as follows: [(sample release – spontaneous release)/(maximum release – spontaneous release)] x 100.
Activation of clone 4 T cells
Clone 4 T cells were isolated and purified as described earlier. A total of 2 x 106 clone 4 cells were cultured in 24-well plates with 2 x 105 Renca tumor cells or 6 x 106 HA(518–526) peptide-pulsed, irradiated BALB/c splenocytes for 72 h.
In vivo cytotoxicity assay
BALB/c mice were injected with 1 x 106 tumor cells s.c. into the left shoulder in 100 µl of PBS. Four days later 5 x 106 clone 4 CD8+ T cells were injected i.v. Tumor growth was determined by measuring the tumor with calipers and applying the following formula (a2 x b/2), where a = horizontal diameter and b = vertical diameter of the tumor.
Cell survival assay
A total of 5 x 106 Thy1.1+ clone 4 CD8+ T cells cocultured for 72 h with either HAhigh tumor cells or HA(518–526) peptide-pulsed splenocytes were transferred i.v. into Thy1.2+ BALB/c recipient mice. Three weeks later mice were immunized i.p. with influenza virus A/PR8/34. Six days following immunization peripheral lymph nodes were harvested and stained with anti-Thy1.1 PE (BD Pharmingen).
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A single cell clone capable of tumor growth in vivo was established from the Renca cell population (RencaNT) (17). The stable transfection of the RencaNT cell line with an expression vector for the HA gene of influenza virus A/PR/8 yielded three cell lines. These lines were termed Renca HAhigh, HAint, and HAlow as determined by the level of HA expression shown by flow cytometric analyses (Fig. 1, A–D) and by RT-PCR (Fig. 1E).
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for 48 h before analyses to determine whether these molecules were likely to be up-regulated during proinflammatory immune responses or following encounter with T cells in culture. Flow cytometric analyses revealed that all of the cell lines expressed MHC class I H-2Kd, and the level of expression was up-regulated in the presence of IFN-. None of the cell lines expressed the classical costimulatory molecules CD80 or CD86, nor CD11a (LFA-1), 4-1BBL, OX40L (Fig. 2) or MHC class II (data not shown) even in the presence of exogenous IFN-. However, all of the cell lines expressed ICAM-1, which was up-regulated in the presence of IFN-.
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To ascertain whether HA-expressing Renca tumor cells could directly activate naive CD8+ T cells in vitro, tumor cell lines were cocultured for 48 h with purified naive clone 4 CD8+ T cells. Clone 4 cells were isolated from the cocultures and analyzed by flow cytometry to determine the level of forward scatter (related to cell size) and expression of the early activation marker CD69 (Fig. 4A).
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Up-regulation of CD69 expression on clone 4 T cells can occur both in the generation of a productive response that results in effector CTL or during an abortive response associated with tolerance induction (19). However, IFN- production has been shown to only occur in the generation of a productive response (19). To determine whether direct activation of naive clone 4 T cells by the RencaHA cell line resulted in the generation of effector cells, coculture supernatants were analyzed for the presence of IFN- by ELISA (Fig. 4B). IFN- was detected only in supernatants from clone 4 T cells cultured in the presence of HA-expressing Renca cell lines. IFN- was not detected in the supernatants from clone 4 cells or tumor cells cultured alone, or clone 4 cells cultured with RencaNT cells. To discount the possibility that clone 4 T cell activation may be due to the presence of contaminating dendritic cells among the clone 4 preparation, clone 4 T cells were purified by FACS sorting of CD8 (not expressed by dendritic cells) and Thy1.1 dual-positive cells. FACS sorted clone 4 T cells cultured in the presence of the HAhigh cell line produced IFN-, whereas those cultured in the presence of the RencaNT cell line did not (Fig. 4C). This result indicated that activation of clone 4 T cells was due to their direct interaction with the Renca tumor cells and not due to their interaction with any contaminating CD8
-expressing dendritic cells. Taken together, these data demonstrated that IFN- was produced only by the clone 4 T cells, and occurred in an Ag-specific manner.
Although the production of IFN- by CD8+ T cells is often associated with the acquisition of CTL function it was important to determine whether clone 4 T cells activated by tumor cells could kill HA(518–526) peptide-pulsed targets. Therefore, the ability of clone 4 T cells, directly activated by the RencaHA tumor cell lines, to act as effector CTL was examined in vitro. 51Cr-labeled P815 target cells, were incubated with clone 4 T cells that had been cultured for 3 days, either alone, with the RencaNT cell line, or with each of the HA-expressing Renca cell lines. The clone 4 T cells cocultured with the RencaHA cell lines were able to lyse HA(518–526) peptide-pulsed P815 targets (Fig. 5). Target cell lysis was shown to be Ag-specific as unpulsed P815 target cells were not lysed by clone 4 T cells primed by any of the RencaHA cell lines. Control clone 4 cells cocultured with RencaNT cells did not lyse HA(518–526) peptide-pulsed P815 targets.
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To determine whether tumor-activated clone 4 cells were able to lyse tumor targets and the effect of Ag expression levels at both priming and effector phases, activated clone 4 CTL were generated by coculture with each of the Renca HAhigh, HAint, and HAlow cell lines and also HA(518–526) peptide-pulsed splenocytes as controls. The CTL activity toward 51Cr-labeled RencaHA cell lines and P815 cells pulsed with and without HA(518–526) peptide was examined in vitro. The data show that all of the RencaHA cell line cocultures contained H-2Kd HA-specific clone 4 effector cells (Fig. 6) as demonstrated by their ability to lyse HA(518–526) peptide-pulsed but not unpulsed P815 cells (Fig. 6, A–C).
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Activation of naive clone 4 T cells by RencaHA cells can be blocked by inhibition of the ICAM-1/LFA-1 interaction
Several studies have determined that the activation of naive CD8+ T cells to form effector CTL requires the expression of the classical costimulatory molecules CD80 and CD86 by APC (2). Given that the Renca cell lines do not express either of these molecules (Fig. 2), other mechanisms by which HA-expressing tumor cells could directly activate naive clone 4 CD8+ T cells were investigated.
It has been suggested that ICAM-1 is able to provide T cells with a costimulatory signal in systems in which immobilized ICAM-1 protein or anti-LFA-1 Ab was used in conjunction with anti-TCR or anti-CD3 Abs (20, 21, 22). All of the Renca cell lines were shown to express ICAM-1 (Fig. 2), thus we wished to determine whether ICAM-1 interaction with LFA-1 was involved in the activation of clone 4 CD8+ T cells in vitro. The addition of an anti-ICAM-1 blocking Ab to the coculture system prevented clone 4 T cell activation by the HA-expressing tumor cell lines. This was demonstrated by the lack of increase in both forward scatter and CD69 expression (data not shown), and by the inhibition of IFN- production by clone 4 T cells (Fig. 7A). IFN- production was inhibited significantly in cultures in which the ICAM-1 blocking Ab was present. This was shown to be an Ab-specific effect as no significant reduction in IFN- production was seen in the presence of an isotype control Ab. The anti-ICAM-1 and isotype control Abs did not induce IFN- production by clone 4 T cells or by any of the tumor cell lines cultured alone (data not shown).
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production by clone 4 T cells in response to all of the RencaHA tumor cells was significantly reduced (Fig. 7B). The reduction in IFN- production was Ab-specific, as in the presence of a control isotype Ab IFN- production was not significantly reduced. Furthermore, the presence of the anti-CD11a blocking Ab did not induce IFN- production by clone 4 T cells cultured alone or by tumor cells cultured alone (data not shown). Tumor-activated CTL inhibit tumor growth in vivo
To determine whether the clone 4 CTL generated from in vitro coculture with HA-expressing tumor cell lines were able to affect the growth of tumor cells in vivo, BALB/c mice were injected s.c. with either the RencaNT or the Renca HAhigh tumor cell line (Fig. 8). Four days later mice each received 5 x 106 clone 4 CTL generated by in vitro coculture for 72 h with either the HAhigh tumor cell line or with HA(518–526) peptide-pulsed splenocytes as a control. Other control groups of tumor-bearing mice were given either naive clone 4 T cells or no clone 4 T cells. Tumor growth in all recipient mice was monitored for 2 wk. In mice given RencaNT cells, the tumors grew at the same rate regardless of whether they had also received naive clone 4 T cells, or not, or clone 4 cells activated by coculture with either HAhigh tumor or HA(518–526) peptide-pulsed splenocytes (Fig. 8). In mice that were injected with only the HAhigh cell line, tumor growth occurred at a similar rate as in mice given RencaNT cells, indicating that HA expression by the tumor cell did not affect its growth in vivo. The presence of naive clone 4 T cells had minimal effect upon the growth of the RencaHA tumor, whereas in mice that had received clone 4 CTL generated from coculture with HA(518–526) peptide-pulsed splenocytes, the growth of the HAhigh tumor was impaired. Significantly, in mice that had been given clone 4 CTL generated from coculture with the HAhigh cell line, growth of the HAhigh tumor was completely inhibited.
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Current evidence indicates that T cell priming in the absence of CD28 signaling leads to a transient response with no memory formation (23). We investigated whether clone 4 T cells cocultured with tumor cells were able to survive for a prolonged period of time in vivo following ICAM-1/LFA-1-dependent stimulation in vitro. For this purpose clone 4 T cells (Thy1.1) were cocultured with either Renca HAhigh cells or HA(518–526) peptide-pulsed splenocytes, then transferred into BALB/c mice (Thy1.2). All of the transferred clone 4 cells were activated as determined by CD69 staining (data not shown). Three weeks later mice were challenged with HA Ag in the form of influenza virus A/PR8/34. Six days after influenza challenge, peripheral lymph nodes were analyzed for the presence of Thy1.1 cells. Clone 4 Thy1.1 T cells activated via HA(518–526) peptide-pulsed splenocytes (Fig. 9A) could be detected in challenged mice and constituted 0.059% of the peripheral lymph node population. Significantly, clone 4 Thy1.1 T cells activated in vitro on HAhigh tumor cells (Fig. 9B) via the ICAM-1/LFA-1-dependent mechanism also survived 27 days in vivo and similarly constituted 0.06% of the peripheral lymph node population following influenza virus challenge.
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production, lysis of tumor cell targets in vitro, and inhibition of tumor growth in vivo. Furthermore, tumor cell-primed T cells were able to persist in vivo in the absence of Ag and expand upon restimulation. The inability of tumor cells in some systems to directly prime CD8+ T cell responses has been suggested to be due to an inability to provide costimulation. In systems in which direct priming by the tumor did not occur, priming could be induced by transfection of the tumor cells with B7 resulting in tumor rejection (27, 28). However, more recently it has been demonstrated that tumors expressing CD80 could not activate T cells in situ, but required the tumor cells to be present in the lymphoid compartment (16). This finding indicated that further stimuli are required for direct priming, which are unique to the lymphoid compartment.
In contrast, our system demonstrated that tumor cells alone can directly activate CD8+ T cells in vitro. Although this result suggests that direct priming of naive CD8+ T cells could occur outside of the secondary lymphoid tissues, it is unlikely that this would happen as naive T cells do not normally circulate through peripheral tissues. Therefore, although direct priming may be important in stimulating antitumor immunity this would only occur if the tumor entered the secondary lymphoid tissues. Ligation of tumor cell ICAM-1 to T cell LFA-1 was a requirement for direct CD8+ T cell activation. The interaction of ICAM-1 with LFA-1 may function in several ways to provide or facilitate costimulation. First, it may simply increase adhesion between the tumor cell and T cell, thereby prolonging the duration of signal 1 through the TCR. Second, this interaction may provide an active signaling event to augment signal 1. Third, it may act to hold the cells in close proximity permitting a third interaction between the tumor cell and the T cell that otherwise would not occur.
In contrast to our findings with CD8+ T cells, costimulatory activity provided through LFA-1 on CD4+ T cells favored limited proliferation, apoptosis and anergy (20, 29, 30). This may indicate that CD4+ T cells have different costimulatory requirements to CD8+ T cells. We demonstrate in this study that the interaction of LFA-1 with ICAM-1 on the tumor is necessary for activating naive CD8+ T cells to receive signal 2 and therefore may circumvent the requirement for CD80- and CD86-induced signaling through CD28. This is consistent with other reports in which Ag-independent stimulation of CD8+ T cells by anti-TCR Ab and ICAM-1 immobilized on beads was shown to induce cell proliferation and involved an active signaling event through LFA-1 that was distinct from TCR-mediated signals (21, 22). In addition, ICAM-1 was shown to be important for activation of CD28-deficient CD8+ T cells by anti-CD3 Abs (31). ICAM-1 expression is not unique to the Renca tumor cell line, but is expressed either constitutively or in response to inflammatory conditions on many cell types (32, 33, 34). Therefore, it is possible that ICAM-1-driven costimulation could be a major mediator of CD80/CD86-independent CD8+ T cell activation.
Significantly, direct activation of naive clone 4 T cells by RencaHA cells did not result in their functional unresponsiveness but the generation of effector CTL, even when very low levels of endogenous tumor Ag was expressed. In contrast, the ability of tumor cell-activated clone 4 CTL to kill tumor cells in vitro was dependent on the level of HA Ag expressed by the target cell, with the efficiency of killing decreasing with lower levels of Ag expression. These data indicate that although the levels of MHC-Ag complexes on the tumor cell surface are sufficient for CD8+ T cell priming, they are insufficient to allow the tumor cell to act as a target of effector function. This corresponds with in vitro cytotoxicity assays of effector function in many systems, in which efficiency of target lysis is peptide dose-dependent (35). The inability of tumor-activated clone 4 CTL to kill Renca HAlow cells cannot be attributed to the CD28-independent mechanism by which they were primed, as a similar result was observed for CTL activated on HA(518–526) pulsed splenocytes, where presumably CD28-driven priming was occurring. Our results therefore suggest that tumor escape from immunoregulation may not be due to failure to prime CTL when Ag levels are low, but to a lack of susceptibility to killing by CTL at the effector stage.
Most importantly, clone 4 T cells directly activated by RencaHA tumor cells were able to inhibit the growth of the HAhigh-expressing cell line in vivo, when adoptively transferred early during tumor growth. In contrast, in mice that did not receive any clone 4 T cells, endogenous HA-specific T cells did not provide any protection against tumor growth. This was consistent with other findings in which only weak endogenous responses were detected against neotumor Ags and did not impact on tumor growth (36, 37). In addition, naive clone 4 T cells adoptively transferred on day 4 of tumor growth were unable to provide protection against tumor growth in vivo. The inability of naive clone 4 T cells to control tumor growth is not unique to this system (38, 39). The lack of protection may be due to a number of factors, including an absence of tumor Ag in the tumor draining lymph node at day 4 of tumor growth, resulting in ignorance and tumor expansion. Thus any subsequent CD8+ T cell activation may occur too late to control tumor growth. The transfer of in vitro-activated antitumor T cells may therefore be advantageous compared with in vivo activation. Firstly, transfer of T cells directly activated by tumor in vitro may avoid any problems associated with in vivo priming of naive cells due to suboptimal Ag presentation. Secondly, T cells with specificities to epitopes not generated by cross-priming in vivo may be activated. Thirdly, direct-activation of naive tumor-specific T cells in vitro appears to remove the problems associated with naive T cell transfer, in that even though effector cells are generated, they do not always mediate tumor rejection.
Our findings confirm that naive CD8+ T cells can be primed to become effector CTL in the absence of CD28 signaling. Under circumstances of normal T cell/APC interaction, ICAM-1/LFA-1 can substitute for CD28 allowing stimulation. Critically, these observations indicate that CD8+ T cell responses can be initiated independently of professional APC, and may instead result from presentation by nonprofessional APC such as virally infected cells or tumor cells. The fact that naive T cells do not routinely migrate through peripheral tissues means that such presentation will only occur when tumor cells access lymphoid tissues (such as during metastasis), or when a virus infection involves replication in hemopoietic cells (for example, during infection with HIV or CMV). It is conceivable that direct priming by nonprofessional APC may not lead to the establishment of a prolonged reaction involving memory. Indeed, the stimulation of CD28-deficient CD8+ T cells using allogeneic stimulators was associated with only a transient response; an observation that was linked to a failure of the T cells to up-regulate the antiapoptotic protein Bcl-xL (23). Although these studies do not directly investigate the generation of memory, in our CD28-independent system we have demonstrated that CD8+ T cells activated by tumor cells in an ICAM-1/LFA-1-dependent manner are able to persist in the absence of Ag in vivo for nearly 4 wk.
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1 This work is supported by Cancer Research United Kingdom Grant C1484/A2633. 
2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. David J. Morgan, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, U.K. E-mail address: D.J.Morgan{at}bristol.ac.uk
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: HA, hemagglutinin; OX40L, OX40 ligand; 4-1BBL, 4-1BB ligand.
Received for publication August 3, 2004. Accepted for publication January 4, 2005.
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), or when pulsed with HA(518–526) peptide (•), was measured over 18 h in a standard 51Cr release assay. Data are representative of two experiments.
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