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- Title
The n3-polyunsaturated fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid induces immunogenic cell death in human cancer cell lines via pre-apoptotic calreticulin exposure.
- Authors
Molinari, Romina; D'Eliseo, Donatella; Manzi, Laura; Zolla, Lello; Velotti, Francesca; Merendino, Nicolò
- Abstract
Some anticancer chemotherapeutics, such as anthracyclines and oxaliplatin, elicit immunogenic apoptosis, meaning that dying cancer cells are engulfed by dendritic cells and tumor antigens are efficiently presented to CD8+ T cells, which control residual tumor cells. Immunogenic apoptosis is characterized by pre-apoptotic cell surface exposure of calreticulin (CRT), which usually resides into the endoplasmic reticulum. We investigated the ability of the n3-polyunsaturated fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (22:6 n3, DHA) to induce pre-apoptotic CRT exposure on the surface of the human PaCa-44 pancreatic and EJ bladder cancer cell lines. Cells were treated with 150 μM DHA for different time periods, and, by immunoblot and immunofluorescence, we showed that DHA induced CRT exposure, before the apoptosis-associated phosphatidylserine exposure. As for the known immunogenic compounds, CRT exposure was inhibited by the antioxidant GSH, the pan-caspase zVAD-FMK, and caspase-8 IETD-FMK inhibitor. We provide the first evidence that DHA induces CRT exposure, representing thus a novel potential anticancer immunogenic chemotherapeutic agent.
- Subjects
UNSATURATED fatty acids; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC acid; IMMUNOGENETICS; CANCER cells; APOPTOSIS; DENDRITIC cells; TUMOR antigens; CELL membranes; CANCER immunotherapy; CANCER chemotherapy
- Publication
Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 2011, Vol 60, Issue 10, p1503
- ISSN
0340-7004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00262-011-1074-7