PMID- 36325297 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20221104 IS - 2049-9469 (Electronic) IS - 2049-9450 (Print) IS - 2049-9450 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 5 DP - 2022 Nov TI - Dendritic cells transfected with a polyepitope DNA construct stimulate an antitumor cytotoxic response in various tumors. PG - 155 LID - 10.3892/mco.2022.2588 [doi] LID - 155 AB - Dendritic cells (DCs) loaded with tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) are known to be crucial for the antitumor response and are still included in various treatment regimens in cancer immunotherapy research. In the present study, a cell-based protocol was evaluated, involving the use of original DNA constructs encoding the wide range of TAA epitopes expressed on different epithelial cancers. The constructs were transfected into in vitro-generated DCs of patients with various types of cancer, including breast, colorectal and non-small cell lung cancer. The direct cytotoxicity assay of effector cells, activated with the transfected DCs, revealed a significant increase in cytotoxicity against autologous tumor cells. The use of DNA constructs encoding a large number of TAAs for insertion into DCs in vitro, aiming to activate a T-cell response may prove to be a reliable and unified approach for immunotherapy and for the prevention of relapse in patients with epithelial cancers. CI - Copyright (c) 2020, Spandidos Publications. FAU - Kurilin, Vasily AU - Kurilin V AD - Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution 'Research Institute of Fundamental and Clinical Immunology', Novosibirsk 630099, Russian Federation. FAU - Kulikova, Ekaterina AU - Kulikova E AD - Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution 'Research Institute of Fundamental and Clinical Immunology', Novosibirsk 630099, Russian Federation. FAU - Shevchenko, Julia AU - Shevchenko J AD - Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution 'Research Institute of Fundamental and Clinical Immunology', Novosibirsk 630099, Russian Federation. FAU - Lopatnikova, Julia AU - Lopatnikova J AD - Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution 'Research Institute of Fundamental and Clinical Immunology', Novosibirsk 630099, Russian Federation. FAU - Obleukhova, Irina AU - Obleukhova I AD - Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution 'Research Institute of Fundamental and Clinical Immunology', Novosibirsk 630099, Russian Federation. FAU - Khantakova, Julia AU - Khantakova J AD - Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution 'Research Institute of Fundamental and Clinical Immunology', Novosibirsk 630099, Russian Federation. FAU - Maksyutov, Amir AU - Maksyutov A AD - Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution 'Research Institute of Fundamental and Clinical Immunology', Novosibirsk 630099, Russian Federation. AD - State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology 'Vector', Koltsovo 630559, Russian Federation. FAU - Kuznetsova, Maria AU - Kuznetsova M AD - Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution 'Research Institute of Fundamental and Clinical Immunology', Novosibirsk 630099, Russian Federation. FAU - Khristin, Alexander AU - Khristin A AD - State Clinical Hospital No. 1, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk 630075, Russian Federation. FAU - Kiryshina, Natalya AU - Kiryshina N AD - Novosibirsk Regional Clinical Oncological Center, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk 630108, Russian Federation. FAU - Kozlov, Vadim AU - Kozlov V AD - Novosibirsk Regional Clinical Oncological Center, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk 630108, Russian Federation. FAU - Sidorov, Sergey AU - Sidorov S AD - State Clinical Hospital No. 1, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk 630075, Russian Federation. FAU - Sokolov, Andrey AU - Sokolov A AD - State Clinical Hospital No. 1, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk 630075, Russian Federation. FAU - Vitsin, Alexander AU - Vitsin A AD - State Clinical Hospital No. 1, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk 630075, Russian Federation. FAU - Shiku, Hiroshi AU - Shiku H AD - Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution 'Research Institute of Fundamental and Clinical Immunology', Novosibirsk 630099, Russian Federation. AD - Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan. FAU - Sennikov, Sergey AU - Sennikov S AD - Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution 'Research Institute of Fundamental and Clinical Immunology', Novosibirsk 630099, Russian Federation. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20221003 PL - England TA - Mol Clin Oncol JT - Molecular and clinical oncology JID - 101613422 PMC - PMC9618840 OTO - NOTNLM OT - T-cells OT - cytotoxicity OT - dendritic cells OT - epithelial cancer OT - polyepitope DNA construct COIS- The authors declare that they have no competing interests. EDAT- 2022/11/04 06:00 MHDA- 2022/11/04 06:01 PMCR- 2022/10/03 CRDT- 2022/11/03 02:44 PHST- 2022/05/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/09/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/11/03 02:44 [entrez] PHST- 2022/11/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/11/04 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/10/03 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - MCO-17-5-02588 [pii] AID - 10.3892/mco.2022.2588 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Mol Clin Oncol. 2022 Oct 3;17(5):155. doi: 10.3892/mco.2022.2588. eCollection 2022 Nov.