Project description:Purified NK cells from human intratumoral and peritumoral tissues tissues were first enriched by MACS using NK Cell Isolation Kit (Miltenyi Biotec, German) and CD96+/- hepatic NK cells were isolated by FACS Aria cell sorter (BD Biosciences, United States) to attain a purity greater than 95%.
Project description:Voluntary exercise reduces the risk of cancer and lowers the risk of disease recurrence. Yet the mechanisms for this protection remain to be elucidated. Here we demonstrate that exercise halves tumor growth through an exercise-dependent mobilization and intratumoral infiltration of NK cells in malignant melanoma. Using voluntary wheel running, we show that exercise prior to and during B16 tumor challenge reduced tumor growth by 67%, and this reduction was associated with increased inflammation and immune cell infiltrates, especially NK cells, in the tumors from exercising mice. Depletion of NK cells blunted the exercise-dependent reduction in tumor growth. Moreover, during exercise, NK cells were engaged through an epinephrine-dependent mobilization to the circulation and redistributed to peripheral tissues through an IL-6 dependent mechanism. This study highlights the importance of exercise-dependent immune regulation in the control of malignant melanoma Gene expression profile of melanoma tumor tissue from two groups of exercise and non-exercise mice
Project description:Voluntary exercise reduces the risk of cancer and lowers the risk of disease recurrence. Yet the mechanisms for this protection remain to be elucidated. Here we demonstrate that exercise halves tumor growth through an exercise-dependent mobilization and intratumoral infiltration of NK cells in malignant melanoma. Using voluntary wheel running, we show that exercise prior to and during B16 tumor challenge reduced tumor growth by 67%, and this reduction was associated with increased inflammation and immune cell infiltrates, especially NK cells, in the tumors from exercising mice. Depletion of NK cells blunted the exercise-dependent reduction in tumor growth. Moreover, during exercise, NK cells were engaged through an epinephrine-dependent mobilization to the circulation and redistributed to peripheral tissues through an IL-6 dependent mechanism. This study highlights the importance of exercise-dependent immune regulation in the control of malignant melanoma
Project description:Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are a heterogeneous population of lymphocytes that coordinate early immune responses and maintain tissue homeostasis. Type 1 immune responses are mediated by natural killer (NK) cells and group 1 ILCs (ILC1s). Despite their shared features, NK cells and ILC1s display profound differences among various tissue microenvironments. Here, we identify the inositol polyphosphatase INPP4B as a hallmark feature of tissue-resident ILC1s and intratumoral NK cells using a scRNA-seq atlas of tissue-associated and circulating NK/ILC1s. Conditional deletion of Inpp4b in ILC1s and NK cells reveals that it is necessary for the homeostasis of tissue-resident ILC1s but not circulating NK cells at steady-state. Inpp4b-deficient cells display increased rates of apoptosis and reduced activation of the pro-survival molecule AKT. Furthermore, expression of Inpp4b by NK/ILC1s is necessary for their presence in the intratumoral environment and lack of Inpp4b impairs antitumor immunity. These findings highlight INPP4B as a novel regulator of tissue residency and antitumor function in ILC1s and NK cells.
Project description:RNA was extracted from formalin-fixed specimens of paired intratumoral and peritumoral tissues of patients with lymph node-positive (n=20) or negative (n=20) HCC. A cDNA-mediated annealing, selection, extension, and ligation assay was performed with an array of 502 known cancer-related genes to identify differentially expressed genes in 80 RNA samples. Total RNA was purified from the tissue specimens using the High Pure RNA Paraffin Kit according to the manufacturer’s protocol. DASL experiments were performed to identify genes that were differentially expressed between the lymph node metastasis (LNM) and non-lymph node metastasis (NLNM) groups of matched intratumoral and peritumoral tissues by using A cDNA-mediated annealing, selection, extension, and ligation assay.
Project description:RNA was extracted from formalin-fixed specimens of paired intratumoral and peritumoral tissues of patients with lymph node-positive (n=20) or negative (n=20) HCC. A cDNA-mediated annealing, selection, extension, and ligation assay was performed with an array of 502 known cancer-related genes to identify differentially expressed genes in 80 RNA samples.
Project description:We identified the genomic characteristics of peritumoral hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) in HBV related HCC. Expression levels of 17160 genes were compared between quiescent and activated HSCs and cancer associated myofibroblasts (CAMFs) from three independent samples per group. We find that among all significant changed genes (≥2-fold change and p<0.05), there were only 188 upregulated and 467 downregulated genes in peritumoral HSCs compared to intratumoral CAMFs. Compared with quiescent HSCs, the same patients-derived culture activated HSCs yielded as many as 1485 upregulated and 1471 downregulated genes. Between peritumoral HSCs/intratumoral CAMFs and culture-activated HSCs , there are 4479 and 3540 upregulated genes, and 3691 and 3380 downregulated genes, respectively. Between peritumoral HSCs/intratumoral CAMFs and quiescent phenotype HSCs, there are 1032 and 994 upregulated genes, and 1654 and 1188 downregulated genes, respectively.