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- Title
MHC class I-related chain A and B ligands are differentially expressed in human cervical cancer cell lines.
- Authors
del Toro-Arreola, Susana; Arreygue-Garcia, Naela; Aguilar-Lemarroy, Adriana; Cid-Arregui, Angel; Jimenez-Perez, Miriam; Haramati, Jesse; Barros-Nuñez, Patricio; Gonzalez-Ramella, Oscar; del Toro-Arreola, Alicia; Ortiz-Lazareno, Pablo; Hernandez-Flores, Georgina; Bravo-Cuellar, Alejandro; Daneri-Navarro, Adrian; Jave-Suarez, Luis F.
- Abstract
Background: Natural killer (NK) cells are an important resource of the innate immune system directly involved in the spontaneous recognition and lysis of virus-infected and tumor cells. An exquisite balance of inhibitory and activating receptors tightly controls the NK cell activity. At present, one of the best-characterized activating receptors is NKG2D, which promotes the NK-mediated lysis of target cells by binding to a family of cell surface ligands encoded by the MHC class I chain-related (MIC) genes, among others. The goal of this study was to describe the expression pattern of MICA and MICB at the molecular and cellular levels in human cervical cancer cell lines infected or not with human papillomavirus, as well as in a non-tumorigenic keratinocyte cell line. Results: Here we show that MICA and MICB exhibit differential expression patterns among HPV-infected (SiHa and HeLa) and non-infected cell lines (C33-A, a tumor cell line, and HaCaT, an immortalized keratinocyte cell line). Cell surface expression of MICA was higher than cell surface expression of MICB in the HPV-positive cell lines; in contrast, HPV-negative cells expressed lower levels of MICA. Interestingly, the MICA levels observed in C33-A cells were overcome by significantly higher MICB expression. Also, all cell lines released higher amounts of soluble MICB than of soluble MICA into the cell culture supernatant, although this was most pronounced in C33-A cells. Additionally, Real-Time PCR analysis demonstrated that MICA was strongly upregulated after genotoxic stress. Conclusions: This study provides evidence that even when MICA and MICB share a high degree of homology at both genomic and protein levels, differential regulation of their expression and cell surface appearance might be occurring in cervical cancer-derived cells.
- Subjects
CELL culture; CELL membranes; CANCER cells; CERVICAL cancer; PAPILLOMAVIRUSES
- Publication
Cancer Cell International, 2011, Vol 11, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
1475-2867
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1475-2867-11-15