30th Annual Meeting and Associated Programs of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC 2015)
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Leukemia/lymphoma development in IL-15-deficient TCR-transgenic mice
Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer volume 3, Article number: P67 (2015)
Sporadic mouse tumor models are valuable tools to understand disease development and treatment efficacies. Here we show that a transgenic T cell receptor expression predisposes mice to leukemia/lymphoma development. Leukemia/lymphoma precursors expressed low amounts of MHC class I and were deleted by NK cells in immunocompetent mice resulting in increased tumor frequency under NK cell absence. Leukemias/lymphomas were clonal and regrow after transfers into NK cell-deficient hosts. Phenotypically, most leukemias/lymphomas were positive for CD3 and CD8, and all expressed high levels of the co-stimulatory molecules PD1, ICOS and CD28 as well as of CD30 resembling the phenotype of immature CD8 single-positive thymocytes. Half of the leukemias/lymphomas harbored Notch1 mutations. Dendritic cells appear to have an auxiliary role in leukemia/lymphomagenesis since their deletion caused decreased tumor growth. The study of leukemias/lymphomas in IL-15-deficient TCR-transgenic mice may help to further understand T cell lymphomagenesis, the role of lymphoma environment, and may be useful to design and test treatments.
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Dubois, S., Mueller, J., Feigenbaum, L. et al. Leukemia/lymphoma development in IL-15-deficient TCR-transgenic mice. j. immunotherapy cancer 3 (Suppl 2), P67 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-1426-3-S2-P67
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-1426-3-S2-P67
Keywords
- Mouse Tumor
- Test Treatment
- Mouse Tumor Model
- Immunocompetent Mouse
- Tumor Frequency