19:10 - 21:00
Room: Ishikawa Ongakudō Interchange Hall
Poster Session
Analysis of multifunctionality and metabolism of peripheral blood CD8+ T cells in gastric cancer patients
Yuji Kimura1, Shingo Eikawa2, Toshiyoshi Fujiwara1, Heiichiro Udono2
1Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Okayama university graduate school of medicine, Okayama, Japan, 2Department of immunology, Okayama university graduate school of medicine, Okayama, Japan

Metabolic reprograming has an essential role in the regulation of CD8+ T cell function and its differentiation. In particular, glucose metabolism is one of the resources to hallmarks of effector T cell. It’s currently reported a new role for the glycolytic metabolite phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) in sustaining T cell receptor-mediated Ca2+-NFAT signaling and effector functions by repressing sarco/ER Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) activity. Based on these metabolic perspectives, we characterized peripheral CD8+ T cells of patients in different Stage of gastric cancer with both a cytokine productivity and intracellular Ca2+ levels on the stimulation of PMA/inomycin. Moreover, we assessed the basal metabolism of CD8+ T cells in each patient by Seahorse Flux Analyzer. We observed the reduction of cytokine productivity and lower levels of Ca2+ in CD8+ T cells as the progression of cancer. Flux analyzer analysis revealed a much lower glycolytic activity (extracellular acidification rate, ECAR) of CD8+ T cells in patients with Stage III or IV. These results suggested that cancer progression associates with metabolic dysregulation of peripheral CD8+ T cells function in gastric cancer patients.


Reference:
Tu-P12-13
Session:
Poster Session 12 “Helper T cell differentiation”
Presenter/s:
Yuji Kimura
Presentation type:
Poster Presentation
Room:
Ishikawa Ongakudō Interchange Hall
Date:
Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Time:
19:10 - 21:00
Session times:
19:10 - 21:00