PMID- 20101024 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20100413 LR - 20220224 IS - 1528-0020 (Electronic) IS - 0006-4971 (Linking) VI - 115 IP - 12 DP - 2010 Mar 25 TI - The MHC class Ib protein ULBP1 is a nonredundant determinant of leukemia/lymphoma susceptibility to gammadelta T-cell cytotoxicity. PG - 2407-11 LID - 10.1182/blood-2009-08-237123 [doi] AB - On the path to successful immunotherapy of hematopoietic tumors, gammadelta T cells offer great promise because of their human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-unrestricted targeting of a wide variety of leukemias/lymphomas. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying lymphoma recognition by gammadelta T cells remain unclear. Here we show that the expression levels of UL16-binding protein 1 (ULBP1) determine lymphoma susceptibility to gammadelta T cell-mediated cytolysis. Consistent with this, blockade of NKG2D, the receptor for ULBP1 expressed on all Vgamma9(+) T cells, significantly inhibits lymphoma cell killing. Specific loss-of-function studies demonstrate that the role of ULBP1 is nonredundant, highlighting a thus far unique physiologic relevance for tumor recognition by gammadelta T cells. Importantly, we observed a very wide spectrum of ULBP1 expression levels in primary biopsies obtained from lymphoma and leukemia patients. We suggest this will impact on the responsiveness to gammadelta T cell-based immunotherapy, and therefore propose ULBP1 to be used as a leukemia/lymphoma biomarker in upcoming clinical trials. FAU - Lanca, Telma AU - Lanca T AD - Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal. FAU - Correia, Daniel V AU - Correia DV FAU - Moita, Catarina F AU - Moita CF FAU - Raquel, Helena AU - Raquel H FAU - Neves-Costa, Ana AU - Neves-Costa A FAU - Ferreira, Cristina AU - Ferreira C FAU - Ramalho, Jose S AU - Ramalho JS FAU - Barata, Joao T AU - Barata JT FAU - Moita, Luis F AU - Moita LF FAU - Gomes, Anita Q AU - Gomes AQ FAU - Silva-Santos, Bruno AU - Silva-Santos B LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20100125 PL - United States TA - Blood JT - Blood JID - 7603509 RN - 0 (Biomarkers, Tumor) RN - 0 (GPI-Linked Proteins) RN - 0 (Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins) RN - 0 (Membrane Proteins) RN - 0 (RNA, Small Interfering) RN - 0 (Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta) RN - 0 (ULBP1 protein, human) SB - IM MH - Biomarkers, Tumor/immunology/*metabolism MH - Biopsy MH - Cell Line, Tumor MH - Clinical Trials as Topic/methods MH - GPI-Linked Proteins MH - Humans MH - Immunotherapy/methods MH - Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Leukemia, B-Cell/metabolism/pathology/therapy MH - Leukemia, T-Cell/metabolism/pathology/therapy MH - Lymphoma/metabolism/pathology/therapy MH - Membrane Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/*metabolism/pathology/therapy MH - RNA, Small Interfering MH - Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/*metabolism MH - T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology/*metabolism EDAT- 2010/01/27 06:00 MHDA- 2010/04/14 06:00 CRDT- 2010/01/27 06:00 PHST- 2010/01/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/01/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/04/14 06:00 [medline] AID - S0006-4971(20)56591-9 [pii] AID - 10.1182/blood-2009-08-237123 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Blood. 2010 Mar 25;115(12):2407-11. doi: 10.1182/blood-2009-08-237123. Epub 2010 Jan 25.