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ArticleJournal of leukocyte biology2024

The antitumor effect of extracellular vesicles derived from cytokine-activated CD8+ T cells.

Lin Zhang, Yuan Meng, Yang An, Xuena Yang, Feng Wei, Xiubao Ren

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Article in Journal of leukocyte biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Towards liquid biopsy-based analysis of antitumour immunity.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2026
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  5. Extracellular Vesicle-Based Drug Delivery Systems in Cancer Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Lin ZhangTianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Huanhuxi Road, Tiyuanbei, Hexi District, Tianjin 300060, China.
Yuan MengTianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Huanhuxi Road, Tiyuanbei, Hexi District, Tianjin 300060, China.ORCID 0009-0007-1959-2279
Yang AnTianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Huanhuxi Road, Tiyuanbei, Hexi District, Tianjin 300060, China.
Xuena YangTianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Huanhuxi Road, Tiyuanbei, Hexi District, Tianjin 300060, China.
Feng WeiTianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Huanhuxi Road, Tiyuanbei, Hexi District, Tianjin 300060, China.
Xiubao RenTianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Huanhuxi Road, Tiyuanbei, Hexi District, Tianjin 300060, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nano-sized membrane particles secreted by various cell types that are involved in many important cellular processes. Recently, EVs originating from immune cells, such as dendritic cells, chimeric antigen receptor T cells, and natural killer cells, have attracted much attention because of their known direct and indirect antitumor activity. Here, we report the EVs released by cytokine-activated CD8+ T (caCD8) cells and its cytotoxicity against cancer cells. CaCD8 cells can release EVs following stimulation of CD8+ T cells with an anti-CD3 antibody and a cytokine cocktail ex vivo. The isolated vesicles have typical EV characteristics, such as an oval shape and a size distribution between 30 and 200 nm, as well as CD81 expression. Notably, caCD8-EVs displayed cytotoxicity against various cancer cells in vitro. Furthermore, mechanism analysis demonstrates that caCD8-EVs not only contain typical cytotoxic proteins (i.e. granzyme B and perforin), but also significantly enrich interferon γ (IFNγ) compared with caCD8 cells. EV-derived IFNγ participates in EV-induced apoptosis in cancer cells. Therefore, our data reveal antitumor effects of EVs secreted from caCD8 cells and the potential role of the EV-derived IFNγ.

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CD8-Positive T-LymphocytesExtracellular VesiclesInterferon-gammaLymphocyte ActivationApoptosisCell Line, TumorCytokinesCytotoxicity, ImmunologicHumansNeoplasmsCytokinesInterferon-gammacytokine-activated CD8+ T cellcytokine-induced killer cellscytotoxicityextracellular vesiclesIFNγ

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PMID38753658
PMCPMC11531818

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