Elsevier

Cellular Immunology

Volume 157, Issue 1, August 1994, Pages 92-105
Cellular Immunology

Regular Article
CD54/ICAM-1 Is a Costimulator of NK Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity

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Abstract

The receptors and the array of cell adhesion molecules regulating MHC-unrestricted cytotoxic activity of NK cells toward tumor targets have not completely characterized. Antibody inhibition studies suggest roles for a number of cell adhesion molecules (CAMs). Recent studies suggest that CAMs can function to stabilize cell-to-cell interactions and/or to provide costimulatory signals that are crucial for T cell activation. It has been difficult to experimentally demonstrate that adhesion molecules also function as costimulators in NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity. We have developed an experimental system using cells transfected with genes encoding huICAM-1 and/or LFA-3 to investigate the function of adhesion molecules. Here we report that neither the expression of transfected ICAM-1 or LFA-3 alone nor the expression of both ICAM-1 and LFA-3, in the absence of MHC class I molecules, converts a murine cell line that is resistant to NK cell-mediated lysis into a susceptible one. We next tested the ability of ICAM-1 or LFA-3-mediated interactions to provide costimulation of NK cell cytolytic activity using a "three cell" experimental system comprising human NK cells, 51C-labeled target cells, and transfected mouse cells as a source of costimulation. The ability of NK cells to lyse K562 cells or anti-CD16-coated target cells was significantly enhanced by the addition of ICAM-1-transfected cells, whereas the addition of cells transfected with LFA-3 or irrelevant genes did not enhance lytic activity. Since the transfected huICAM-1 interacts with NK cells at sites spatially separate from the NK cell-target cell interactions, our data suggest that LFA-1-ICAM-1 or MAC-1-ICAM-1 interactions can provide remote co-stimulation, via signaling events, to induce cytotoxic activity in NK cells.

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