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Using the poorly immunogenic D5 murine melanoma, we examined the adjuvant effect of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin-12 (IL-12) secretion by gene-modified tumor cells inoculated as a vaccine to prime tumor-draining lymph nodes (TDLNs). D5 transfectants that secreted IL-12 or GM-CSF alone were compared with a double transfectant that secreted equivalent amounts of both cytokines. TDLN cells harvested 9–10 days after subcutaneous tumor inoculation were cultured sequentially in anti-CD3 and IL-2 and assessed for antitumor reactivity against wild-type D5 tumor. The double transfectant-induced TDLN effector cells had greater cytotoxicity in a long-term assay than TDLN cells primed by single transfectants. In adoptive immunotherapy, the TDLN cells primed by the double transfectant were significantly better at mediating the regression of established tumors compared with the TDLN cells elicited by the single transfectants. Both IL-12 and GM-CSF had adjuvant effects in promoting tumor-reactive TDLN cells, but the combination was better than either alone. These observations suggest that the immunomodulation roles of IL-12 and GM-CSF are different and complementary.
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Aruga, A., Tanigawa, K., Aruga, E. et al. Enhanced adjuvant effect of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor plus interleukin-12 compared with either alone in vaccine-induced tumor immunity. Cancer Gene Ther 6, 89–95 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.cgt.7700010
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.cgt.7700010