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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-3-6
pubmed:abstractText
IFN-gamma, a pleiotropic immune regulator, is implicated in both tumor immune surveillance and selection of tumor variants resistant to immune control, i.e., immunoediting. In uveal melanoma patients, elevated serum levels of IFN-gamma correlate with the spread of metastasis and represent a negative prognostic marker. Treatment with IFN-gamma boosted the MHC class I presentation machinery in uveal melanoma cells but suppressed their MHC class I-restricted CTL lysis. Tumor cells exposed to IFN-gamma efficiently activated specific CTL but were less susceptible to permeabilization by perforin and exhibited a decreased capacity to bind and incorporate granzyme B. These results define a novel mechanism of resistance to granule-mediated CTL lysis in human tumors. Furthermore, the data suggest that immunoediting is not limited to genetic or epigenetic changes resulting in stable cellular phenotypes but also involves an inducible modulation of tumor cells in response to a microenvironment associated with immune activation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
180
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3766-74
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Cell Membrane Permeability, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Clone Cells, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Cytotoxicity, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Down-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Granzymes, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Immune Tolerance, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Immunity, Innate, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Immunophenotyping, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Interferon-gamma, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Melanoma, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Perforin, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Prognosis, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Tumor Markers, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Up-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:18322182-Uveal Neoplasms
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Modulation of the tumor cell phenotype by IFN-gamma results in resistance of uveal melanoma cells to granule-mediated lysis by cytotoxic lymphocytes.
pubmed:affiliation
Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't