Abstract
The interaction between LFA-1 and its natural ligand, ICAM-1, plays an important role in leukocyte adhesion and signal transduction. LFA-1-mediated T-cell adhesion is generally activated by CD3-mediated signal in association with T-cell receptor-mediated recognition of the antigen/major histocompatibility complex on antigen-presenting cells. In the present study, we compared spontaneous or bispecific antibody (BsAb)-directed LAK cell cytotoxicity against ICAM-1+ or ICAM-1- small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines. γ-Interferon (IFN-γ)-induced ICAM-1 expression on ICAM-1- SCLC cell lines, and susceptibility to LAK cells was increased simultaneously. Increased cytolysis of the IFN-γ-treated SCLC was inhibited by an anti-ICAM-1 monoclonal antibody (mAb). Furthermore, LAK cell cytotoxicity directed by BsAb, which was composed of OKT3 and anti-SCLC mAb, was also increased by the IFN-γ treatment of SCLC, and this increase was inhibited by an anti-ICAM-1 mAb but not by anti-Class I or anti-CD2 mAb. These results suggest that a prior administration of IFN-γ would enhance the efficacy of the following specific targeting therapy utilizing BsAb and LAK cells by up-regulating the ICAM-1 expression on tumor target cells. The combinational use of IFN-γ and anti-CD3 × anti-tumor BsAb might be a promising way of enhancing LAK cell-mediated adoptive immunotherapy in small cell lung cancer patients.
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↵1 to whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at 4th Department of Internal Medicine, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.
- Received October 30, 1991.
- Accepted July 7, 1992.
- ©1992 American Association for Cancer Research.
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