Low Avidity T Cells Do Not Hinder High Avidity T Cell Responses Against Melanoma
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Title
Low Avidity T Cells Do Not Hinder High Avidity T Cell Responses Against Melanoma
Journal
Front Immunol
ISSN
1664-3224
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Published
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2019
Volume
10
Pages
2115
Language
english
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1664-3224
Ioannidou, Kalliopi
Randin, Olivier
Semilietof, Aikaterini
Maby-El Hajjami, Helene
Baumgaertner, Petra
Vanhecke, Dominique
Speiser, Daniel E
Journal Article
Switzerland
Front Immunol. 2019 Sep 6;10:2115. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02115. eCollection 2019.
Ioannidou, Kalliopi
Randin, Olivier
Semilietof, Aikaterini
Maby-El Hajjami, Helene
Baumgaertner, Petra
Vanhecke, Dominique
Speiser, Daniel E
Journal Article
Switzerland
Front Immunol. 2019 Sep 6;10:2115. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02115. eCollection 2019.
Abstract
The efficacy of T cells depends on their functional avidity, i. e., the strength of T cell interaction with cells presenting cognate antigen. The overall T cell response is composed of multiple T cell clonotypes, involving different T cell receptors and variable levels of functional avidity. Recently, it has been proposed that the presence of low avidity tumor antigen-specific CD8 T cells hinder their high avidity counterparts to protect from tumor growth. Here we analyzed human cytotoxic CD8 T cells specific for the melanoma antigen Melan-A/MART-1. We found that the presence of low avidity T cells did not result in reduced cytotoxicity of tumor cells, nor reduced cytokine production, by high avidity T cells. In vivo in NSG-HLA-A2 mice, the anti-tumor effect of high avidity T cells was similar in presence or absence of low avidity T cells. These data indicate that low avidity T cells are not hindering anti-tumor T cell responses, a finding that is reassuring because low avidity T cells are an integrated part of natural T cell responses.
Keywords
IFN-gamma Elispot assay, T cell response, adoptive T cell transfer, avidity, cytotoxicity assay, melanoma
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