《生命科学》 2017, 29(9): 855-863
摘 要:摘 要:γδ T 细胞自发现30 余年来,其研究较其他免疫细胞相对滞后,甚至被认为是进化的“残留物(relics)”。但越来越多的研究显示,γδ T 细胞在人的免疫功能中发挥着非常重要的作用,是天然免疫与获得性免疫的“桥梁”。近年来,γδ T 细胞的抗肿瘤、抗感染的相关研究表明了γδ T 细胞在肿瘤免疫与感染免疫中具有重要功能和临床应用价值。Vγ9Vδ2 亚群是只存在于外周血的一类人γδ T 细胞,其数量虽少,但其功能全面、强大。相比肿瘤或传染病患者自体γδ T 细胞的功能被抑制或“后天不足”,健康人来源的同种异体γδ T 细胞由于功能健康,其临床应用价值更具优势。现以抗肿瘤应用为落脚点,综述人γδ T 细胞的生物学功能,识别肿瘤细胞的分子免疫机制,并简单总结国际上自体γδ T 细胞抗肿瘤的应用进展;同时,简述国际上最新关于同种异体γδ T 细胞在抗肿瘤方面的应用动态,并介绍了笔者团队同种异体γδ T 细胞治疗肿瘤的进展概况。
Abstract: Abstract: Human γδ T cells have been treated as evolutionary relics for a long time since the discovery in 1986. Therefore, people paid much less attention to this specific group of T lymphycytes than other types of immune cells. However, increasing reports showed that γδ T cells play many important roles in human immune responses, and “bridge” between innate immunity and acquired immunity. Among several subsets of γδ T cells, Vγ9Vδ2 subset only represents in peripheral blood of human and primates. Although the small population in T lymphocytes, investigations on this group of γδ T cells during the past a few years revealed that they directly involve in both antitumor and anti-infections, and that they can be applied in clinical treatment of tumor and infection using adoptive infusion. In this review, focused on anti-tumor application of γδ T cells, we discussed the immunological function of γδ T cells, and the molecular mechanism of how γδ T cells recognize cancer cells. Then, we summarized literature reports on using autologous γδ T cells in tumor immunotherapy. In the end, we briefly reviewed the latest international progess on allogenic γδ T cells in anti-tumor research, and then we presented the work progess of our own group on research and development of allogenic γδ T cells in anti-tumor and anti-infection.