B7-H1-expressing antigen-presenting cells mediate polarization of protumorigenic Th22 subsets.

B7-H1 is up-regulated in HIV infection and is a novel surrogate marker of disease progression.

The ligation of programmed death-ligand 1 (B7-H1) to T cells results in the preferential production of interleukin 10 (IL-10). We investigated if B7-H1 would be up-regulated in HIV infection, a disease characterized by increased IL-10 production, by measuring B7-H1, B7-1 (CD80), and B7-2 (CD86) expression and mRNA in 36 HIV-infected patients and in 22 healthy controls (HCs). Results showed that...

Silencing B7-H1 enhances the anti-tumor effect of bladder cancer antigen-loaded dendritic cell vaccine in vitro

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine whether short hairpin RNA (shRNA) expressing lentiviral particles targeting B7-H1 infection could result in B7-H1 knockdown on dendritic cells (DCs) and to investigate whether B7-H1 silencing could augment the immune function of DCs and further elicit a more potent anti-tumor immune effect against bladder cancer cells in vitro. METHODS Monocyte-d...

B7-H1 on hepatocytes facilitates priming of specific CD8 T cells but limits the specific recall of primed responses.

BACKGROUND & AIMS The requirement for costimulation of CD8 T-cell priming and restimulation by nonprofessional antigen-presenting cells is unresolved. Here, we investigated whether B7-H1 (CD274, PD-L1) on hepatocytes (HC) is involved in the specific activation of naive CD8 T cells or activated CD8 T blasts. METHODS Naive or activated CD8 T cells from transgenic OT-I mice were primed/restimula...

The Immunomodulatory Effect of Cyclophosphamide on Regulation of T-Cell Subsets and Antigen Presenting Cells.

Lymph node invasion by tumor cells modifies the distribution of dendritic cell subsets and memory T cell profiles in human cancer patients

Introduction In human breast cancer, the invasion of tumor-draining lymph nodes (TDLNs) is an important step in disease progression and has predictive value [1]. TDLN dendritic cells (DCs), which are comprised of lymphoid-organ-resident and skin-derived migratory DCs, present tumor antigens to the naïve T cells and induce their activation and polarization into different functional subsets (Th1,...