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Regulatory T cells with multiple suppressive and potentially pro-tumor activities accumulate in human colorectal cancer.

ABSTRACT: Tregs can contribute to tumor progression by suppressing antitumor immunity. Exceptionally, in human colorectal cancer (CRC), Tregs are thought to exert beneficial roles in controlling pro-tumor chronic inflammation. The goal of our study was to characterize CRC-infiltrating Tregs at multiple levels, by phenotypical, molecular and functional evaluation of Tregs from the tumor site, compared to non-tumoral mucosa and peripheral blood of CRC patients. The frequency of Tregs was higher in mucosa than in blood, and further significantly increased in tumor. Ex vivo, those Tregs suppressed the proliferation of tumor-infiltrating CD8(+) and CD4(+) T cells. A differential compartmentalization was detected between Helios(high) and Helios(low) Treg subsets (thymus-derived versus peripherally induced): while Helios(low) Tregs were enriched in both sites, only Helios(high) Tregs accumulated significantly and specifically in tumors, displayed a highly demethylated TSDR region and contained high proportions of cells expressing CD39 and OX40, markers of activation and suppression. Besides the suppression of T cells, Tregs may contribute to CRC progression also through releasing IL-17, or differentiating into Tfr cells that potentially antagonize a protective Tfh response, events that were both detected in tumor-associated Tregs. Overall, our data indicate that Treg accumulation may contribute through multiple mechanisms to CRC establishment and progression.

SUBMITTER: Timperi E

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5006916 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Regulatory T cells with multiple suppressive and potentially pro-tumor activities accumulate in human colorectal cancer.

Timperi Eleonora E Pacella Ilenia I Schinzari Valeria V Focaccetti Chiara C Sacco Luca L Farelli Francesco F Caronna Roberto R Del Bene Gabriella G Longo Flavia F Ciardi Antonio A Morelli Sergio S Vestri Anna Rita AR Chirletti Piero P Barnaba Vincenzo V Piconese Silvia S

Oncoimmunology 20160425 7

Tregs can contribute to tumor progression by suppressing antitumor immunity. Exceptionally, in human colorectal cancer (CRC), Tregs are thought to exert beneficial roles in controlling pro-tumor chronic inflammation. The goal of our study was to characterize CRC-infiltrating Tregs at multiple levels, by phenotypical, molecular and functional evaluation of Tregs from the tumor site, compared to non-tumoral mucosa and peripheral blood of CRC patients. The frequency of Tregs was higher in mucosa th ...[more]

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Project description:AimTo investigate the suppressive activity of MUTYH variant proteins against mutations caused by oxidative lesion, 8-hydroxyguanine (8OHG), in human cells.Methodsp.R154H, p.M255V, p.L360P, and p.P377L MUTYH variants, which were previously found in patients with colorectal polyposis and cancer, were selected for use in this study. Human H1299 cancer cell lines inducibly expressing wild-type (WT) MUTYH (type 2) or one of the 4 above-mentioned MUTYH variants were established using the piggyBac transposon vector system, enabling the genomic integration of the transposon sequence for MUTYH expression. MUTYH expression was examined after cumate induction using Western blotting analysis and immunofluorescence analysis. The intracellular localization of MUTYH variants tagged with FLAG was also immunofluorescently examined. Next, the mutation frequency in the supF of the shuttle plasmid pMY189 containing a single 8OHG residue at position 159 of the supF was compared between empty vector cells and cells expressing WT MUTYH or one of the 4 MUTYH variants using a supF forward mutation assay.ResultsThe successful establishment of human cell lines inducibly expressing WT MUTYH or one of the 4 MUTYH variants was concluded based on the detection of MUTYH expression in these cell lines after treatment with cumate. All of the MUTYH variants and WT MUTYH were localized in the nucleus, and nuclear localization was also observed for FLAG-tagged MUTYH. The mutation frequency of supF was 2.2 × 10(-2) in the 8OHG-containing pMY189 plasmid and 2.5 × 10(-4) in WT pMY189 in empty vector cells, which was an 86-fold increase with the introduction of 8OHG. The mutation frequency (4.7 × 10(-3)) of supF in the 8OHG-containing pMY189 plasmid in cells overexpressing WT MUTYH was significantly lower than in the empty vector cells (P < 0.01). However, the mutation frequencies of the supF in the 8OHG-containing pMY189 plasmid in cells overexpressing the p.R154H, p.M255V, p.L360P, or p.P377L MUTYH variant were 1.84 × 10(-2), 1.55 × 10(-2), 1.91 × 10(-2), and 1.96 × 10(-2), respectively, meaning that no significant difference was observed in the mutation frequency between the empty vector cells and cells overexpressing MUTYH mutants.ConclusionThe suppressive activities of p.R154H, p.M255V, p.L360P, and p.P377L MUTYH variants against mutations caused by 8OHG are thought to be severely impaired in human cells.

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Regulatory T cells with multiple suppressive and potentially pro-tumor activities accumulate in human colorectal cancer.

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Regulatory T cells with multiple suppressive and potentially pro-tumor activities accumulate in human colorectal cancer.

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