Project description:By comparing CD94-CD56dim NK cell with or without primary stimulation treatment after 5 days, cytokine induced NK memory related molecules were identified.
Project description:Natural killer (NK) cells are a type of innate lymphocytes that play key roles in immune surveillance against tumors and viral infection. NK cells distinguish abnormal cells from healthy cells by cell-cell interaction with cell surface proteins and then attack target cells via multiple mechanisms involving TRAIL, Fas Ligand, cytokine secretion, perforin, and granzymes. In addition, extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes derived from NK cells (NK-EVs), possess cytotoxic capacity against tumor cells, but their characteristics and regulation by cytokines remain unknown. Here, we report that EVs derived from human NK-92 cells stimulated with IL-15 + IL-21 show enhanced cytotoxic capacity against tumor cells in a granzyme B independent manner. In addition, small RNA-seq and mass spectrometry analyses indicate that miRNA and protein profiles in EVs are altered by cytokine stimulation. We also show NK-EVs are taken up by target cells via macropinocytosis. Collectively, our findings reveal novel characteristics of NK-EVs and the mechanism of their incorporation into target cells.
Project description:Peripheral blood NK cells were cultured into either control or cytokine-induced memory-like NK cells as described in PMID: 32614951. After differentiation, cells were labeled with hashtag antibodies and cite-seq antibodies and control and memory-like NK cells were combined and loaded onto the 10x Genomics Chromium Instrument a the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine. The following samples were analyzed to develop a classification tool for unbiased identification of memory-like NK cells in a bulk single-cell RNA-seq population.
Project description:NK cells may acquire under certain conditions features of adaptive immune cells. As the functional role of memory NK cells in cancer has so far remained elusive, we reasoned whether tumor-priming itself might promote memory NK cell generation. We provide substantial evidence that independent from pro-inflammatory stimulation, tumor-induced memory-like (TIML) NK cells exhibit a heightened, tumor-restricted cytotoxicity which is dependent on a higher/faster perforin but not IFN-γ release. Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals that gene expression patterns differ between TIML- and Cytokine-induced memory-like (CIML)-NK cells.
Project description:We showed Cytokine induced memory-like (CIML) human NK cells have higher trasduction efficiency with CAR lentivirus for therapeutics. We performed single cell RNAseq analysis to comprehensively understand the transcripttion difference between NPM1c-CAR-mb15 CIML NK cells and CAR-negative CIML NK cells, as well as their transcriptional response to NPM1c+ AML tumor cells.
Project description:Memory T cells are critical to protect us from recurring infections. Their instantaneous reactivity to pathogens is empowered by persistent expression of cytokine mRNA. How aberrant protein production of this pre-formed mRNA is prevented in the absence of infection, however, remains unresolved. We show that protein production in memory T cells is blocked through a 3’untranslated region (3’UTR)-mediated process, and that AU-rich elements (AREs) are key herein. Germ-line deletion of AREs leads to chronic IFN- production in bona fide memory T cells. Strikingly, the aberrant protein production does not result from increased mRNA levels and/or half-life. Rather, AREs block the recruitment of cytokine mRNA to ribosomes, a process that is mediated by the ARE-binding protein ZFP36L2. Thus, AREs are crucial elements for translational repression that allow murine and human memory T cells to contain pre-formed cytokine mRNAs, while preventing undesirable protein production in the absence of infection.
Project description:Here we show that Zika virus infection induces memory like NK cells that express CD27. This subset shared transcriptional changes with memory CD8 T cells, stem cells and stem like T cells. These NK cells with memory and stemness features which we term NK memory stem cells (SCMNK) demonstrated greater antiviral potential. Transcriptional data of SCMNK and non-memory NK cells is presented.
Project description:Natural killer (NK) cells are a type of innate lymphocytes that play key roles in immune surveillance against tumors and viral infection. NK cells distinguish abnormal cells from healthy cells by cell-cell interaction with cell surface proteins and then attack target cells via multiple mechanisms involving TRAIL, Fas Ligand, cytokine secretion, perforin, and granzymes. In addition, extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes derived from NK cells (NK-EVs), possess cytotoxic capacity against tumor cells, but their characteristics and regulation by cytokines remain unknown. Here, we report that EVs derived from human NK-92 cells stimulated with IL-15 + IL-21 show enhanced cytotoxic capacity against tumor cells in a granzyme B independent manner. In addition, small RNA-seq and mass spectrometry analyses indicate that miRNA and protein profiles in EVs are altered by cytokine stimulation. We also show NK-EVs are taken up by target cells via macropinocytosis. Collectively, our findings reveal novel characteristics of NK-EVs and the mechanism of their incorporation into target cells.