PMID- 20308313 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20100708 LR - 20211203 IS - 1523-5866 (Electronic) IS - 1522-8517 (Print) IS - 1522-8517 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 4 DP - 2010 Apr TI - Normal human monocytes exposed to glioma cells acquire myeloid-derived suppressor cell-like properties. PG - 351-65 LID - 10.1093/neuonc/nop023 [doi] AB - Glioblastoma patients are immunosuppressed, yet glioblastomas are highly infiltrated by monocytes/macrophages. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC; immunosuppressive myeloid cells including monocytes) have been identified in other cancers and correlate with tumor burden. We hypothesized that glioblastoma exposure causes normal monocytes to assume an MDSC-like phenotype and that MDSC are increased in glioblastoma patients. Healthy donor human CD14(+) monocytes were cultured with human glioblastoma cell lines. Controls were cultured alone or with normal human astrocytes. After 48 hours, glioblastoma-conditioned monocytes (GCM) were purified using magnetic beads. GCM cytokine and costimulatory molecular expression, phagocytic ability, and ability to induce apoptosis in activated lymphocytes were assessed. The frequency of MDSC was assessed by flow cytometry in glioma patients' blood and in GCM in vitro. As predicted, GCM have immunosuppressive, MDSC-like features, including reduced CD14 (but not CD11b) expression, increased immunosuppressive interleukin-10, transforming growth factor-beta, and B7-H1 expression, decreased phagocytic ability, and increased ability to induce apoptosis in activated lymphocytes. Direct contact between monocytes and glioblastoma cells is necessary for complete induction of these effects. In keeping with our hypothesis, glioblastoma patients have increased circulating MDSC compared with normal donors and MDSC are increased in glioma-conditioned monocytes in vitro. To our knowledge, this has not been reported previously. Although further study is needed to directly characterize their origin and function in glioblastoma patients, these results suggest that MDSC may be an important contributor to systemic immunosuppression and can be modeled in vitro by GCM. FAU - Rodrigues, Jennifer C AU - Rodrigues JC AD - Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. FAU - Gonzalez, Guido C AU - Gonzalez GC FAU - Zhang, Lei AU - Zhang L FAU - Ibrahim, George AU - Ibrahim G FAU - Kelly, John J AU - Kelly JJ FAU - Gustafson, Michael P AU - Gustafson MP FAU - Lin, Yi AU - Lin Y FAU - Dietz, Allan B AU - Dietz AB FAU - Forsyth, Peter A AU - Forsyth PA FAU - Yong, V Wee AU - Yong VW FAU - Parney, Ian F AU - Parney IF LA - eng GR - P50 CA108961/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - CA108961-05/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - CAPMC/CIHR/Canada PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20091222 PL - England TA - Neuro Oncol JT - Neuro-oncology JID - 100887420 RN - 0 (CD11b Antigen) RN - 0 (Culture Media, Conditioned) RN - 0 (Cytokines) RN - 0 (Lipopolysaccharide Receptors) SB - IM CIN - Neuro Oncol. 2010 Apr;12(4):319. PMID: 20308309 MH - Apoptosis MH - Brain Neoplasms/metabolism/*pathology MH - CD11b Antigen/metabolism MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Coculture Techniques MH - Culture Media, Conditioned/pharmacology MH - Cytokines/metabolism MH - Flow Cytometry MH - Glioblastoma/metabolism/*pathology MH - Humans MH - Immunosuppression Therapy MH - Leukocytes, Mononuclear/metabolism/*pathology MH - Lipopolysaccharide Receptors/metabolism MH - Monocytes/metabolism/*pathology MH - Myeloid Cells/metabolism/*pathology PMC - PMC2940603 EDAT- 2010/03/24 06:00 MHDA- 2010/07/09 06:00 PMCR- 2011/04/01 CRDT- 2010/03/24 06:00 PHST- 2010/03/24 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/03/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/07/09 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2011/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - nop023 [pii] AID - 10.1093/neuonc/nop023 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neuro Oncol. 2010 Apr;12(4):351-65. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/nop023. Epub 2009 Dec 22.