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Cancer Cell International
Published in: Cancer Cell International 1/2011

Open Access 01-12-2011 | Primary research

MHC class I-related chain A and B ligands are differentially expressed in human cervical cancer cell lines

Authors: Susana del Toro-Arreola, Naela Arreygue-Garcia, Adriana Aguilar-Lemarroy, Angel Cid-Arregui, Miriam Jimenez-Perez, Jesse Haramati, Patricio Barros-Nuñez, Oscar Gonzalez-Ramella, Alicia del Toro-Arreola, Pablo Ortiz-Lazareno, Georgina Hernandez-Flores, Alejandro Bravo-Cuellar, Adrian Daneri-Navarro, Luis F Jave-Suarez

Published in: Cancer Cell International | Issue 1/2011

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Abstract

Background

Natural killer (NK) cells are an important resource of the innate immune system directly involved in the spontaneous recognition and lysis of virus-infected and tumor cells. An exquisite balance of inhibitory and activating receptors tightly controls the NK cell activity. At present, one of the best-characterized activating receptors is NKG2D, which promotes the NK-mediated lysis of target cells by binding to a family of cell surface ligands encoded by the MHC class I chain-related (MIC) genes, among others. The goal of this study was to describe the expression pattern of MICA and MICB at the molecular and cellular levels in human cervical cancer cell lines infected or not with human papillomavirus, as well as in a non-tumorigenic keratinocyte cell line.

Results

Here we show that MICA and MICB exhibit differential expression patterns among HPV-infected (SiHa and HeLa) and non-infected cell lines (C33-A, a tumor cell line, and HaCaT, an immortalized keratinocyte cell line). Cell surface expression of MICA was higher than cell surface expression of MICB in the HPV-positive cell lines; in contrast, HPV-negative cells expressed lower levels of MICA. Interestingly, the MICA levels observed in C33-A cells were overcome by significantly higher MICB expression. Also, all cell lines released higher amounts of soluble MICB than of soluble MICA into the cell culture supernatant, although this was most pronounced in C33-A cells. Additionally, Real-Time PCR analysis demonstrated that MICA was strongly upregulated after genotoxic stress.

Conclusions

This study provides evidence that even when MICA and MICB share a high degree of homology at both genomic and protein levels, differential regulation of their expression and cell surface appearance might be occurring in cervical cancer-derived cells.
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Metadata
Title
MHC class I-related chain A and B ligands are differentially expressed in human cervical cancer cell lines
Authors
Susana del Toro-Arreola
Naela Arreygue-Garcia
Adriana Aguilar-Lemarroy
Angel Cid-Arregui
Miriam Jimenez-Perez
Jesse Haramati
Patricio Barros-Nuñez
Oscar Gonzalez-Ramella
Alicia del Toro-Arreola
Pablo Ortiz-Lazareno
Georgina Hernandez-Flores
Alejandro Bravo-Cuellar
Adrian Daneri-Navarro
Luis F Jave-Suarez
Publication date
01-12-2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Cancer Cell International / Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1475-2867
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2867-11-15

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