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In vitro culture with gemcitabine augments death receptor and NKG2D ligand expression on tumour cells

Gravett, AM; Dalgleish, A; Copier, J (2019) In vitro culture with gemcitabine augments death receptor and NKG2D ligand expression on tumour cells. Scientific Reports, 9. p. 1544. ISSN 2045-2322 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-38190-2
SGUL Authors: Gravett, Andrew Michael

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Abstract

Much effort has been made to try to understand the relationship between chemotherapeutic treatment of cancer and the immune system. Whereas much of that focus has been on the direct effect of chemotherapy drugs on immune cells and the release of antigens and danger signals by malignant cells killed by chemotherapy, the effect of chemotherapy on cells surviving treatment has often been overlooked. In the present study, tumour cell lines: A549 (lung), HCT116 (colon) and MCF-7 (breast), were treated with various concentrations of the chemotherapeutic drugs cyclophosphamide, gemcitabine (GEM) and oxaliplatin (OXP) for 24 hours in vitro. In line with other reports, GEM and OXP upregulated expression of the death receptor CD95 (fas) on live cells even at sub-cytotoxic concentrations. Further investigation revealed that the increase in CD95 in response to GEM sensitised the cells to fas ligand treatment, was associated with increased phosphorylation of stress activated protein kinase/c-Jun N-terminal kinase and that other death receptors and activatory immune receptors were co-ordinately upregulated with CD95 in certain cell lines. The upregulation of death receptors and NKG2D ligands together on cells after chemotherapy suggest that although the cells have survived preliminary treatment with chemotherapy they may now be more susceptible to immune cell-mediated challenge. This re-enforces the idea that chemotherapy-immunotherapy combinations may be useful clinically and has implications for the make-up and scheduling of such treatments.

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SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII)
Journal or Publication Title: Scientific Reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Dates:
DateEvent
7 February 2019Published
6 December 2018Accepted
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
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UNSPECIFIEDInstitute for Cancer Vaccines and ImmunotherapyUNSPECIFIED
URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/110654
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-38190-2

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