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From the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand
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Abstract |
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The mechanisms that regulate the strength and duration of CD8+ cytotoxic T cell activity determine the effectiveness of an antitumor immune response. To better understand the antitumor effects of anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) antibody treatment, we analyzed the effect of CTLA-4 signaling on CD8+ T cells in vitro and in vivo. In vitro, cross-linking of CTLA-4 on purified CD8+ T cells caused decreased proliferative responses to anti-CD3 stimulation and rapid loss of activation marker expression. In vivo, blockade of CTLA-4 by neutralizing anti-CTLA-4 mAb greatly enhanced the accumulation, activation, and cytotoxic activity of CD8+ T cells induced by immunization with Ag on dendritic cells (DC). This enhanced response did not require the expression of MHC class II molecules on DC or the presence of CD4+ T cells. These results demonstrate that CTLA-4 blockade is able to directly enhance the proliferation and activation of specific CD8+ T cells, indicating its potential for tumor immunotherapy even in situations in which CD4+ T cell help is limited or absent.
Key words: CTLA-4 (CD152); CD8+ T cells; dendritic cells; CD4+ T cells; cytotoxicity ![]() |
Introduction |
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Naive T cells require two distinct signals to proliferate and differentiate into armed effector cells. Signal 1 is Ag-specific and generated by interaction of the TCR with antigenic peptide associated with MHC molecules on APC. Signal 2 is referred to as costimulatory because, while essential, it does not by itself induce any functional response in T cells. The most well characterized costimulatory signal is generated through the interaction of the T cell molecule CD28 with its ligands B7-1 and B7-2 on APC (1).
Negative costimulation also plays an important role in the regulation of T cell activation and peripheral T cell homeostasis. Interaction of B7 with cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4), expressed on activated T cells, mediates a negative signal that inhibits T cell proliferation (2). The importance of CTLA-4 in T cell proliferation is highlighted by the phenotype observed in CTLA-4-deficient mice, which is characterized by CD4+ T cell-driven polyclonal expansion of peripheral T cells, multiorgan lymphocytic infiltration, and death at three to four weeks of age (3).
In vitro, signals mediated by CTLA-4 decrease IL-2 production and IL-2 receptor expression and inhibit cell cycle progression (for review, see reference 2). In vivo, CTLA-4 signaling can be blocked by administration of anti-CTLA-4 mAb, resulting in enhanced T cell immune responses to Ag (6) or superantigen (7). Similarly, Th2-type immune responses to nematode parasite infection (8) and Th1-type immune responses to mycobacteria can be augmented by anti-CTLA-4 treatment (Kirman, J., K. McCoy, S. Hook, M. Prout, B. Delahunt, I. Orme, A. Frank, and G. Le Gros, manuscript submitted for publication), and autoimmune conditions are exacerbated (9). Antitumor immune responses are also augmented by preventing CTLA-4 function (12), as demonstrated by the enhanced tumor rejection in mice treated with anti-CTLA-4 mAb.
In this study, we have sought to define a potential mechanism for anti-CTLA-4-induced tumor immunity. We have reasoned that a B7-expressing cell must be involved, presenting tumor antigen and providing ligands for CTLA-4 on T cells and thus inducing incomplete or transient activation of antitumor T cells. Current understanding suggests that this cell is a dendritic cell (DC). Anti-CTLA-4 mAb may enhance the activation of Ag-specific CD8+ T cells via DC by either directly preventing the engagement of CTLA-4 on CD8+ T cells or enhancing CD4+ helper function. We find that anti-CTLA-4 treatment significantly enhances the expansion and cytotoxic activity of CD8+ T cells activated by Ag on DC and that this enhancement can occur independently of CD4+ T cell help.
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Materials and Methods |
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Mice.
C57BL/6 mice were obtained from The Jackson Laboratory. Strain 318 TCR-transgenic mice (13) were provided by Prof. H. Pircher (University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany) and B6Aa0/Aa0 (MHC class IIIn Vitro Culture Media and Reagents.
Cultures were in IMDM and additives were as described (8). The lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus glycoprotein peptide KAVYNFATM (LCMV33-41) was obtained from Chiron Mimotopes. Supernatant from the cell line IL2L6 was used as a source of human rIL-2.Antibodies and FACS® Staining.
Anti-CTLA-4 clone UC10-4F10-11 (provided by Dr. J. Bluestone, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL), anti-CD3 (145-2C11), anti-CD28 (37.51), anti-CD8 (2.43), anti-CD4 (GK1.5), anti-CD11c (N418), anti-FcIn Vitro CTLA-4 Cross-linking Experiments.
Lymph node cell suspensions were layered onto a Percoll gradient (Pharmacia Biotech AB) and the high density cells taken from the interface of 60 and 70% Percoll layers. CD4+ and Ig+ cells were depleted by treatment with anti-CD4 mAb followed by anti-Ig magnetic bead adherence (Dynal A.S.). The remaining cell suspension contained 95% CD8+ T cells, with no detectable CD4+ T cells and <2% B220+ cells. For cross-linking experiments, 105 resting CD8+-enriched cells were cultured with 105 polystyrene beads coated with anti-CD3 and either anti-CTLA-4 or control IgG in the presence or absence of soluble anti-CD28 as described (16). Control cultures were provided with 50 U/ml human rIL-2. Proliferation was determined by 3H-TdR incorporation over the last 8 h of a 72-h culture.Culture of Bone Marrow-derived DC and Ag Loading.
Bone marrow cells from C57BL/6 mice or MHC class IIAdoptive Transfer and Immunization.
Lymph node cell suspensions were prepared from line 318 mice, and the percentage of T cells expressing transgenic TCR was determined by flow cytometry using anti-TCR VDirect Cytotoxicity Assays.
C57BL/6 mice received TCR-transgenic T cells, were treated with anti-CTLA-4 or control IgG, and were immunized with 3 × 104 DC as described above. 7 d after DC immunization, splenocytes were harvested, depleted of CD4+ and Ig+ cells, and tested for cytotoxic activity in vitro by JAM test on 5,000 labeled EL4 cells that had been incubated in the presence or absence of 1 µM LCMV33-41 peptide for 1 h at 37°C before the assay (18). All cultures were performed in triplicate. ![]() |
Results |
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We used anti-CTLA-4 mAb conjugated to polystyrene beads to examine the effect of CTLA-4 cross-linking on the activation and proliferation of purified resting CD8+ T cells in culture. Lymphocyte preparations from line 318 TCR-transgenic mice were depleted of CD4+ and Ig+ cells using Ab-coated magnetic beads. Enriched CD8+ T cells were cultured with beads coated with either anti-CD3 and anti-CTLA-4 or anti-CD3 and control IgG in the presence of a positive costimulatory signal provided by soluble anti-CD28. As shown in Fig. 1 A, after 24 h both control Ab-treated and anti- CTLA-4-treated cultures contained activated CD8+ T cells with markedly increased expression of the activation markers CD25 and CD69 as compared to resting cells. However, whereas expression of these activation markers was maintained until after 48 h in control cultures, it was rapidly lost in the presence of anti-CTLA-4. No increase in cell death was apparent in anti-CTLA-4-treated cultures as compared to control cultures (data not shown). Proliferation of CD8+ T cells in these cultures was assayed 64-72 h after activation (Fig. 1 B). In the presence of anti-CD28, control cultures were highly activated and showed significant levels of proliferation. In contrast, cross-linking of CTLA-4 with mAb-conjugated beads completely inhibited proliferation. The inhibitory function of anti-CTLA-4 was overridden by addition of exogenous IL-2. Therefore, the proliferative function of CD8+ T cells can be directly inhibited by signals mediated via CTLA-4. Similar results have been reported by Walunas et al. using CD8+ T cells from the TCR-transgenic strain 2C (19).
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To determine
whether CTLA-4 signals regulate the activation of CD8+
T cells in vivo, we examined the effect of a neutralizing anti- CTLA-4 mAb on the accumulation of specific CD8+ T cells
in the lymph nodes of mice immunized with Ag-loaded
DC. An adoptive transfer model was used (15) in which
nonmanipulated C57BL/6 hosts received 5 × 106 TCR-transgenic T cells from strain 318 mice. These T cells are specific for LCMV33-41 in association with H-2Db and can
be identified by their V2+V
8+CD8+ phenotype. Anti-
CTLA-4 mAb or control IgG was administered intraperitoneally at the time of adoptive transfer, followed by DC
loaded with LCMV33-41 peptide on day 1. Control animals
received either DC that had not been loaded with Ag or no
DC immunization at all. Activation and accumulation of
V
2+V
8+CD8+ T cells in the draining lymph nodes
were examined on day 5 after immunization, as preliminary
experiments showed that both responses were maximal on
this day (data not shown). The data in Fig. 2 are presented
as fold increase in the total number of V
2+V
8+CD8+
T cells in immunized mice over the number of the same
cells in animals that were not immunized. This is because
the fold increase in V
2+V
8+CD8+ T cells was reproducible in different experiments, whereas the absolute cell
number varied. In control IgG-treated animals, an average
2.4-fold increase in the number of V
2+V
8+CD8+ T cells
was observed in response to Ag-loaded DC, whereas immunization with DC without Ag failed to induce any increase.
Significantly, when animals were treated with anti-CTLA-4
mAb, the Ag-induced accumulation was greater, with an
average sixfold increase observed. This reflected both an
increase in the proportion of V
2+V
8+CD8+ T cells and
an increase in the total number of lymph node cells (twofold). Immunization with Ag-loaded DC induced increased
CD44 expression on a significant proportion of V
2+V
8+
T cells, and this proportion was greatly increased in animals treated with anti-CTLA-4 mAb (Fig. 2). Importantly, increased CD44 expression was strictly Ag dependent and
was not detected on cells not expressing the V
2+V
8+ receptor. Interestingly, a twofold increase in the cellularity of
the draining lymph node, with no increase in the percentage of V
2+V
8+CD8+ cells, was observed in mice treated with
anti-CTLA-4 and immunized with DC only, resulting
in an increase in the absolute number of V
2+V
8+ cells.
The increased cellularity was immunization related, as it was
not observed in nondraining lymph nodes. No increased
expression of CD44 or other activation markers was observed on these V
2+V
8+ cells (not shown), indicating
that blockade of CTLA-4 signals was not sufficient to induce
T cell activation in the absence of Ag. Taken together, these
results suggest that inhibition of CTLA-4-mediated signaling results in enhanced Ag-specific proliferation of CD8+
T cells in vivo.
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It was possible that the enhanced CD8+ T cell
activation induced by anti-CTLA-4 mAb treatment was
due to increased helper function of CD4+ T cells. To examine this possibility, we repeated the DC immunization experiments using MHC class II/
DC, which are unable
to present Ag to CD4+ T cells and elicit T cell help. MHC
class II
/
mice were also used as immunization recipients,
as in these mice, no T cell help would be available if Ag
was transferred from the injected DC to host APC.
As shown in Fig. 3, immunization with MHC class II/
DC loaded with LCMV33-41 peptide induced selective accumulation of V
2+V
8+CD8+ T cells in the draining lymph
nodes of MHC class II+/+ and MHC Class II
/
mice.
More importantly, treatment with anti-CTLA-4 mAb significantly enhanced the accumulation of V
2+V
8+CD8+
T cells (Fig. 3) and their expression of CD44 (not shown),
regardless of the expression of MHC class II on host APC.
Again, as for Fig. 2, treatment with anti-CTLA-4 caused
an increase in the cellularity of the draining lymph node in
mice immunized with DC only; however, the percentage of
V
2+V
8+CD8+ cells was not increased compared to controls nor was their expression of activation markers altered.
These results suggest that the enhanced accumulation of
V
2+V
8+ T cells observed with anti-CTLA-4 treatment
in DC-immunized mice is not dependent on the provision
of CD4+ T cell help. We conclude that CD8+ T cells can be
directly regulated in vivo by signals mediated via CTLA-4
molecules.
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To determine whether in
vivo treatment with anti-CTLA-4 mAb affects the effector
function of CD8+ T cells, we assayed cytotoxic activity in
mAb-treated adoptive transfer recipients that had been immunized with DC. Spleen cells were recovered 7 d after
immunization, depleted of CD4+ T cells and Ig+ cells, and
assayed directly on LCMV33-41 peptide-coated EL4 targets.
As is seen in Fig. 4, Ag-specific cytotoxicity was barely detectable when CD8+ effector cells were prepared from
DC-immunized, control IgG-treated mice. Therefore, the
cytotoxic activity induced by DC immunization was below
the threshold of detection by this technique. In contrast, in
vivo treatment with anti-CTLA-4 mAb resulted in a measurable increase in specific cytotoxicity, with 50% lysis observed at an E/T ratio of 150:1 when MHC class II+/+ DC
were used for immunization. When MHC class II/
DC
were used, 35% lysis was observed. Increased cytotoxic activity of effector CD8+ T cells in the anti-CTLA-4-treated
groups was apparent even when the E/T ratios were adjusted for the percentage of V
2+V
8+ cells (data not
shown). These results indicate that CTLA-4-mediated signals regulate the cytotoxic activity of CD8+ T cells, also in
the absence of CD4+ help.
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Discussion |
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In this paper, we show that CD8+ T cell responses induced by Ag presented on DC are amplified when CTLA-4-dependent signaling is inhibited in vivo. While anti- CTLA-4 mAb treatment was known to enhance several kinds of T cell immune responses (6), it had not been previously reported that increased CD8+ T cell activation is also observed when DC are used as APC, a finding that may have significant implications for the use of anti- CTLA-4 in tumor immunotherapy.
We investigated whether anti-CTLA-4 enhanced the activity of CD8+ T cells directly or by increasing the availability of CD4+ T cell help. To this purpose, we carried out experiments in which the potential contribution of CD4+ T cells to the CD8+ T cell response was progressively reduced. We observed augmented CD8+ T cell responses regardless of the availability of CD4+ T cells, indicating that CD4+ T cells were not critical to the observed effect. As also reported by Walunas et al. (19), a purified cell culture system confirmed that CD8+ T cells could respond directly to CTLA-4-mediated signals in vitro. However, although it is clear that the effects of anti-CTLA-4 we have observed are independent of CD4+ T cell help, CD4+ T cells are thought to be necessary for the activation of DC and for the productive development of a CD8+ T cell response (20). Because we could observe good CD8+ T cell responses even in the absence of CD4+ T cells, we must conclude that our DC were sufficiently activated before injection to be able to induce good CD8+ T cell priming.
The findings reported in this paper are relevant to the
described enhancement of tumor immunity induced by in
vivo treatment with anti-CTLA-4 mAb (12). Treatment
with anti-CTLA-4 mAb in vivo is thought to block the
delivery of a negative signal, mediated by B7 ligands on
B7-expressing cells. Because tumor cells are generally B7,
a third cell type must be providing B7 in this system. Bone marrow-derived APC, presumably DC, have been reported to take up and present self Ag (21) as well as tumor
Ag (22) from peripheral tissues in physiological situations.
We thus hypothesized that tumor immunity induced by
anti-CTLA-4 treatment is most likely due to enhanced
T cell activation by tumor antigen presented by DC. In this
paper, we show that both CD8+ T cell activation and specific cytotoxic activity induced by immunization with DC
are amplified in the presence of anti-CTLA-4 mAb, possibly resulting in the tumor immunity described by Leach et al. (12). Our results also imply that tumors in which Ag fails to gain access to a DC, because of either poor antigenicity or limited DC presence in the tumor, may fail to
respond to anti-CTLA-4 treatment. Conversely, manipulations which increase local inflammation and therefore
access of tumor Ag to DC (23), or tumor vaccination procedures, could become more effective if used in combination with anti-CTLA-4 treatment (24).
As in the case of CTLA-4-deficient mice (25), we could observe no spontaneous T cell activation in the absence of Ag when CTLA-4 signaling was blocked. Surprisingly, however, we observed that lymph node cellularity was increased by anti-CTLA-4 treatment even after immunization with DC only. This increase was restricted to the draining lymph nodes, indicating that it was immunization related. DC have been reported to induce Ca2+ responses in T cells in the absence of Ag (26). This low level of stimulation may be amplified by the removal of CTLA-4 signals.
In conclusion, blockade of CTLA-4 directly enhances the ability of CD8+ T cells to respond to Ag presented on DC, amplifying their expansion and accumulation in lymphoid organs and their cytotoxic activity. This finding may help explain the antitumor effect of anti-CTLA-4 mAb treatment, and, if extended to CD4+ T cells, the autoimmune phenotype observed in CTLA-4-deficient mice.
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Footnotes |
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Address correspondence to Franca Ronchese, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, P.O. Box 7060, Wellington South, New Zealand; Phone: 64-4-389-5096; Fax: 64-4-389-5095; E-mail: mimrfr{at}wnmeds.ac.nz
Received for publication 21 September 1998 and in revised form 27 January 1999.
K. McCoy's present address is Institute for Experimental Immunology, University of Zürich, Schmelzbergstrasse 12, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland.We thank the personnel of the Wellington Medical School Biomedical Research Unit for animal husbandry.
This work was supported by grants from the Cancer Society of New Zealand and an equipment grant from the New Zealand Lottery Board. J.H. Fraser is the New Zealand Cancer Research Institute Trust Scholar, G. Le Gros is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, and F. Ronchese is recipient of a Wellington Medical Research Foundation Malaghan Senior Fellowship.
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