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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
25
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-6-24
pubmed:abstractText
?-glucans have been reported to function as a potent adjuvant to stimulate innate and adaptive immune responses. However, ?-glucans from different sources are differential in their structure, conformation, and thus biologic activity. Different preparations of ?-glucans, soluble versus particulate, further complicate their mechanism of action. Here we show that yeast-derived particulate ?-glucan activated dendritic cells (DCs) and macrophages via a C-type lectin receptor dectin-1 pathway. Activated DCs by particulate ?-glucan promoted Th1 and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte priming and differentiation in vitro. Treatment of orally administered yeast-derived particulate ?-glucan elicited potent antitumor immune responses and drastically down-regulated immunosuppressive cells, leading to the delayed tumor progression. Deficiency of the dectin-1 receptor completely abrogated particulate ?-glucan-mediated antitumor effects. In contrast, yeast-derived soluble ?-glucan bound to DCs and macrophages independent of the dectin-1 receptor and did not activate DCs. Soluble ?-glucan alone had no therapeutic effect but significantly augmented antitumor monoclonal antibody-mediated therapeutic efficacy via a complement activation pathway but independent of dectin-1 receptor. These findings reveal the importance of different preparations of ?-glucans in the adjuvant therapy and allow for the rational design of immunotherapeutic protocols usable in clinical trials.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1528-0020
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
23
pubmed:volume
117
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6825-36
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Adaptive Immunity, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Adjuvants, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Dendritic Cells, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Immunity, Innate, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Macrophages, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Phagocytosis, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-Th1 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:21531981-beta-Glucans
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Differential pathways regulating innate and adaptive antitumor immune responses by particulate and soluble yeast-derived ?-glucans.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural