Schlecker, Eva, Fiegler, Nathalie, Arnold, Annette, Altevogt, Peter, Rose-John, Stefan ORCID: 0000-0002-7519-3279, Moldenhauer, Gerhard, Sucker, Antje, Paschen, Annette, von Strandmann, Elke Pogge, Textor, Sonja and Cerwenka, Adelheid
(2014).
Metalloprotease-Mediated Tumor Cell Shedding of B7-H6, the Ligand of the Natural Killer Cell-Activating Receptor NKp30.
Cancer Res., 74 (13).
S. 3429 - 3441.
PHILADELPHIA:
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH.
ISSN 1538-7445
Abstract
Natural killer (NK) cells are potent immune effector cells capable of mediating antitumor responses. Thus, during immunoediting, tumor cell populations evolve strategies to escape NK-cell-mediated recognition. In this study, we report a novel mechanism of immune escape involving tumor cell shedding of B7-H6, a ligand for the activating receptor NKp30 that mediates NK-cell binding and NK-cell-mediated killing. Tumor cells from different cancer entities released B7-H6 by ectodomain shedding mediated by the cell surface proteases a disintegrin and metalloproteases (ADAM)-10 and ADAM-17, as demonstrated through the use of pharmacologic inhibitors or siRNA-mediated gene attenuation. Inhibiting this proteolytic shedding process increased the levels of B7-H6 expressed on the surface of tumor cells, enhancing NKp30-mediated activation of NK cells. Notably, we documented elevated levels of soluble B7-H6 levels in blood sera obtained from a subset of patients with malignant melanoma, compared with healthy control individuals, along with evidence of elevated B7-H6 expression in melanoma specimens in situ. Taken together, our results illustrated a novel mechanism of immune escape in which tumor cells impede NK-mediated recognition by metalloprotease-mediated shedding of B7-H6. One implication of our findings is that therapeutic inhibition of specific metalloproteases may help support NK-cell-based cancer therapy. (C) 2014 AACR.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-435203 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-3017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cancer Res. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number: | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | S. 3429 - 3441 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | PHILADELPHIA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1538-7445 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/43520 |
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