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  • Title: Lysis of fresh human tumour cells by autologous tumour-associated lymphocytes: two distinct types of autologous tumour killer cells induced by co-culture with autologous tumour.
    Author: Uchida A, Moore M.
    Journal: Cancer Immunol Immunother; 1985; 20(1):29-37. PubMed ID: 3877561.
    Abstract:
    The specific and natural killer (NK)-restricted nature of auto-tumour cytotoxicity of tumour-associated lymphocytes was studied in cancer patients with malignant pleural effusions. Large granular lymphocytes (LGL) and small T lymphocytes were isolated from carcinomatous pleural effusions by centrifugation on discontinuous Percoll gradients. Tumour cells freshly isolated from pleural effusions were classified according to their susceptibility to lysis by Percoll-purified LGL from the blood of normal donors in a 4-h 51Cr release assay. Of 12 NK-sensitive tumour samples, 11 were killed by autologous fresh effusion LGL, whereas only 2 were lysed by autologous T cells. Neither LGL nor T cells were cytotoxic to NK-resistant autologous tumour cells. T cells and LGL were each cultured in vitro with autologous tumour cells for 6 days. Effusion LGL maintained their auto-tumour killing activity in 10 of 12 autologous mixed lymphocyte-tumour cultures (MLTC) with NK-sensitive tumour, while LGL lost the activity when cultured alone. Removal of high-affinity sheep erythrocyte-rosetting cells from Percoll-purified LGL enriched effector cells. Autologous MLTC-derived LGL could also kill NK-sensitive allogeneic effusion tumour cells and K562 cells, as did fresh LGL. In autologous MLTC LGL failed to acquire lytic function to NK-resistant autologous tumour cells. In contrast, in vitro activation of effusion T cells with autologous tumour cells induced auto-tumour killer cells in 9 of 12 NK-sensitive tumour samples and 3 of 6 NK-resistant tumour cases. However, cultured T cells were incapable of killing allogeneic tumour cells and K562 cells. In the autologous MLTC effusion T cells proliferated vigorously in response to autologous tumour cells, whereas LGL showed no proliferation. The enrichment of blasts from cultured T cells on discontinuous Percoll gradients resulted in an enhancement of auto-tumour cytotoxicity, with no reactions recorded in blast-depleted, small, resting T cells. These results indicate that two distinct types of auto-tumour-recognising lymphocytes, LGL and T cells, are present in carcinomatous pleural effusions of cancer patients and that each effector type recognises different membrane moieties of autologous effusion tumour cells.
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