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ArticleJournal of cellular and molecular medicine2014

HPV vaccine stimulates cytotoxic activity of killer dendritic cells and natural killer cells against HPV-positive tumour cells.

Johan M J Van den Bergh, Khadija Guerti, Yannick Willemen, Eva Lion, Nathalie Cools, Herman Goossens, Alex Vorsters, Viggo F I Van Tendeloo, Sébastien Anguille, Pierre Van Damme and 1 more

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Article in Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Innate immunity and HPV: friends or foes.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2018
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  5. Activities of stromal and immune cells in HPV-related cancers.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2018
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  8. Vaccinating for natural killer cell effector functions.Clinical & translational immunology · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Johan M J Van den BerghLaboratory of Experimental Hematology, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Khadija Guerti
Yannick Willemen
Eva Lion
Nathalie Cools
Herman Goossens
Alex Vorsters
Viggo F I Van Tendeloo
Sébastien Anguille
Pierre Van Damme
Evelien L J M Smits
Infectious Diseases Institute · UGUniversity of Antwerp · BEAntwerp University Hospital · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cervarix™ is approved as a preventive vaccine against infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV) strains 16 and 18, which are causally related to the development of cervical cancer. We are the first to investigate in vitro the effects of this HPV vaccine on interleukin (IL)-15 dendritic cells (DC) as proxy of a naturally occurring subset of blood DC, and natural killer (NK) cells, two innate immune cell types that play an important role in antitumour immunity. Our results show that exposure of IL-15 DC to the HPV vaccine results in increased expression of phenotypic maturation markers, pro-inflammatory cytokine production and cytotoxic activity against HPV-positive tumour cells. These effects are mediated by the vaccine adjuvant, partly through Toll-like receptor 4 activation. Next, we demonstrate that vaccine-exposed IL-15 DC in turn induce phenotypic activation of NK cells, resulting in a synergistic cytotoxic action against HPV-infected tumour cells. Our study thus identifies a novel mode of action of the HPV vaccine in boosting innate immunity, including killing of HPV-infected cells by DC and NK cells.

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Cells, CulturedDendritic CellsFemaleHumansImmunity, InnateImmunophenotypingInterleukin-15Killer Cells, NaturalLymphocytesPapillomaviridaePapillomavirus InfectionsPapillomavirus VaccinesT-Lymphocytes, CytotoxicUterine Cervical NeoplasmsInterleukin-15Papillomavirus Vaccinescytotoxicitydendritic cellshuman papillomavirus vaccinenatural killer cellsvirus-like particles

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PMID24979331
PMCPMC4124021
OpenAlexW1994074703

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