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  • Title: Polymorphonuclear leukocyte-mediated, antibody-dependent, cellular cytotoxicity against tumor cells: dependence on oxygen and the respiratory burst.
    Author: Hafeman DG, Lucas ZJ.
    Journal: J Immunol; 1979 Jul; 123(1):55-62. PubMed ID: 36434.
    Abstract:
    Experiments were done to determine 1) whether the respiratory burst of superoxide anion (O2-) production in polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) is triggered during antibody-dependent killing of tumor cells and 2) whether O2- production is essential for cytotoxicity. Three parameters of the respiratory burst (1-14C-glucose oxidation, oxygen consumption, and O2- release) were increased 2.5- to 7.3-fold during killing of antibody-primed tumor cells by human PMN. Added catalase and superoxide dismutase did not inhibit lysis, possibly because these enzymes were unable to diffuse into the inter-plasma-membrane space between killer and target cells. Evidence for an O2- requirement for cytotoxicity was the fact that concentrations of amobarbital or phenylbutazone sufficient to inhibit the cyanide-insensitive respiration of PMN also inhibited cytotoxicity. Also, hypoxic conditions inhibited cytotoxicity from 29 to 73%. The requirement for oxygen was most likely related to O2- generation and not mitochondrial respiration since cyanide and azide, which inhibit mitochondrial respiration, increased cytotoxicity.
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