Abstract

To carry out antitumor activity against cells that have lost surface antigens, human lymphocytes must have a certain repertoire of surface proteins capable of contacting a tumor cell and inducing programmed cell death in it. In this work, we showed that activation of healthy donor cells by IL-2 cytokine within 6 days causes the appearance of FasL, CD25, and LFA-1 proteins on CD8+CD25+ T lymphocytes, and also converts the LFA-1 protein into an active form having a high affinity for its target, ICAM-1 integrin. The appearance of these proteins on the surface of this subpopulation of lymphocytes allows them to induce programmed cell death in HLA-negative tumor cells.

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