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Membrane-bound p35 Subunit of IL-12 on Tumor Cells is Functionally Equivalent to Membrane-bound Heterodimeric Single Chain IL-12 for Induction of Anti-tumor Immunity

  • Hyun-Jin Kim (Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Sang Min Park (Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Hayyoung Lee (Institute of Biotechnology, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Young Sang Kim (Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Chungnam National University)
  • Received : 2016.05.06
  • Accepted : 2016.06.14
  • Published : 2016.10.31
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Abstract

In this study, we compared two different tumor cell vaccines for their induction of anti-tumor immunity; one was a tumor cell clone expressing a membrane-bound form of IL-12 p35 subunit (mbIL-12 p35 tumor clone), and the other was a tumor clone expressing heterodimeric IL-12 as a single chain (mb-scIL-12 tumor clone). The stimulatory effect of mb-scIL-12 on the proliferation of ConA-activated splenocytes was higher than that of mbIL-12 p35 in vitro. However, the stimulatory effect of mbIL-12 p35 was equivalent to that of recombinant soluble IL-12 (3 ng/ml). Interestingly, both tumor clones (mbIL-12 p35 and mb-scIL-12) showed similar tumorigenicity and induction of systemic anti-tumor immunity in vivo, suggesting that tumor cell expression of the membrane-bound p35 subunit is sufficient to induce anti-tumor immunity in our tumor vaccine model.

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Acknowledgement

This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2013R1A1A4A01013202) and a grant from Chungnam National University (2014).

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