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- Title
Overexpression of VEGF in the MOPC 315 Plasmacytoma Induces Tumor Immunity in Mice.
- Authors
Kim, Byung-Gyu; Choi, Sung Hee; Letterio, John J.; Song, Jie-Young; Huang, Alex Y.
- Abstract
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has important effects on hematopoietic and immune cells. A link between VEGF expression, tumor progression, and metastasis has been established in various solid tumors; however, the impact of VEGF expression by hematopoietic neoplasias remains unclear. Here, we investigated the role of VEGF in plasma cell neoplasia. Overexpression of VEGF in MOPC 315 tumor cells (MOPCSVm) had no effect on their growth in vitro. However, constitutive ectopic expression of VEGF dramatically reduced tumorigenicity of MOPC 315 when implanted subcutaneously into BALB/c mice. Mice implanted with MOPCSVm effectively rejected tumor grafts and showed strong cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) activity against parental MOPC 315 cells. MOPCSVm implants were not rejected in nude mice, suggesting the process is T-cell-dependent. Adoptive transfer of splenocytes from recipients inoculated with MOPCSVm cells conferred immunity to naïve BALB/c mice, and mice surviving inoculation with MOPCSVm rejected the parental MOPC 315 tumor cells following a second inoculation. Immunohistochemical analysis showed that MOPCSVm induced a massive infiltration of CD3+ cells and MHC class II+ cells in vivo. In addition, exogenous VEGF induced the expression of CCR3 in T cells in vitro. Together, these data are the first to demonstrate that overexpression of VEGF in plasmacytoma inhibits tumor growth and enhances T-cell-mediated antitumor immune response.
- Subjects
CYTOTOXIC T cells; PLASMACYTOMA; VASCULAR endothelial growth factors; GENETIC overexpression; MICE
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 9, p5235
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms23095235