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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
20
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-10-19
pubmed:abstractText
Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta is the key molecule implicated in impaired immune function in human patients with malignant gliomas. Here we report that patients with glioblastoma, the most common and lethal type of human glioma, show decreased expression of the activating immunoreceptor NKG2D in CD8(+) T and natural killer (NK) cells. TGF-beta is responsible for the down-regulation of NKG2D expression in CD8(+) T and NK cells mediated by serum and cerebrospinal fluid of glioma patients in vitro. Moreover, TGF-beta inhibits the transcription of the NKG2D ligand MICA. Interference with the synthesis of TGF-beta1 and TGF-beta2 by small interfering RNA technology prevents the down-regulation of NKG2D on immune cells mediated by LNT-229 glioma cell supernatant and strongly enhances MICA expression in the glioma cells and promotes their recognition and lysis by CD8(+) T and NK cells. Furthermore, TGF-beta silencing results in a less migratory and invasive glioma cell phenotype in vitro. LNT-229 glioma cells deficient in TGF-beta exhibit a loss of subcutaneous and orthotopic tumorigenicity in nude mice, and NK cells isolated from these mice show an activated phenotype. RNA interference targeting TGF-beta1,2 results in a glioma cell phenotype that is more sensitive to immune cell lysis and less motile in vitro and nontumorigenic in nude mice, strongly confirming TGF-beta antagonism as a major therapeutic strategy for the future treatment of malignant gliomas.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0008-5472
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
64
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7596-603
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Cell Movement, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Down-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Gene Silencing, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Glioblastoma, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Killer Cells, Natural, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily K, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Neoplasm Invasiveness, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-RNA Interference, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Receptors, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Receptors, Natural Killer Cell, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:15492287-Transforming Growth Factor beta
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
RNA interference targeting transforming growth factor-beta enhances NKG2D-mediated antiglioma immune response, inhibits glioma cell migration and invasiveness, and abrogates tumorigenicity in vivo.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of General Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and Institute for Cell Biology, Department of Immunology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't