Inhibition of Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide Signaling with More Potent Inhibitors Augments T-Cell Activation and Prolongs Survival in Leukemic Mice
Blood(2021)
Abstract
Introduction: Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) is a 28-amino acid neuropeptide with immunosuppressive effects on T cells. Inhibition of VIP receptor (VIP-R) signaling by VIPhyb, a first-generation VIP-R antagonist, not only enhances T-cell activation and proliferation in vitro but also improves T cell dependent anti-tumor response in mouse models of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and T lymphoblastic leukemia (Li et al. 2016; Petersen, Li, and Waller 2017). The goal of the project is to develop more potent VIP-R antagonists that generate a significantly more robust anti-tumor response in mouse models of AML, when compared to VIPhyb and validate a screening method to test the efficacy of novel peptides in activating human T cells in vitro. In this study, we report, for the first time, the activity of novel VIP-R antagonists on the activation profile of human T cells.
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vasoactive intestinal peptide,inhibitors,t-cell
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