Avaliação de moléculas envolvidas no escape imunológico em desordens potencialmente malignas de boca

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves, Andréia de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/0013000003k0n
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6953
• topic: Desordens potencialmente malignas de boca; Leucoplasia oral; Queilite actínica; Evasão imunológica; Escape tumoral; Oral potentially malignant disorders; Oral leukoplakia; Actinic cheilitis; Immune evasion; Tumor escape; ODONTOLOGIA::CLINICA ODONTOLOGICA

Study Rationale: Oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs) consist of morphologically altered tissues, which present a greater risk of malignant transformation than normal tissue. The most frequently found OPMDs are leukoplakia (OL) and actinic cheilitis (AC). It is now known that mutated or genetically altered cells have developed immunomodulatory strategies which allow them to escape antitumor immune response. The immune escape mechanisms used by mutated cells include the expressions of HLA-G, HLA-E and PD-L1 molecules and the IL-10 and TGF-β cytokines. Objective: To evaluate tissue and salivary expressions of HLA-G, HLA-E and PD-L1 molecules and IL-10 and TGF-β1, -β2 e -β3 cytokines in OPMDs, and relate such immunomodulatory mediators with antitumor immune response and potential for malignant transformation of lesions. Methods: Samples of patients with OL (n= 80) were submitted to immunohistochemistry and ELISA techniques to evaluate tissue and salivary expressions of the HLA-G, HLA-E, PD-L1, IL-10, TGF-β1, TGF-β2 and TGF-β3. In addition, samples of patients with QA (n= 30) were submitted to immunohistochemistry technique to evaluation tissue expression of HLA-G, HLA-E, PD-L1 and IL-10. Control group (n= 20) consisted of saliva and tissue of healthy individuals. The immunostained tissue samples were measured using a semi-quantitative method in association with staining intensity. The expression of these molecules and cytokines were related with the malignant potential of the lesions (epithelial dysplasia grading, proliferation- Ki-67 and apoptosis index- mutated p53). Moreover, the association with the density of granzyme B (GB+) cells and regulatory T cells FOXP3+ was investigated. The statistical tests used were: Fisher’s exact or Pearson Chi-Squared, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal- Wallis tests. The significance level was set at P < 0.05. Results: Fifteen samples showed severe dysplasia, twenty moderate, thirty-two mild and thirteen non-dysplasia. Forty samples (50%) of OL presented combined high Ki-67/p53. Irrespective of the severity of epithelial dysplasia and proliferation/apoptosis index in OL, an overexpression of HLA-G, -E, PD-L1, IL-10, TGF-β2 and -β3 was found in OL when compared with control (P < 0.05). The number of GB+ and FOXP3+ cells in OL was similar to control. Salivary concentration of sHLA-G, IL-10 and TGF-β did not allow distinction between OL patients and healthy individuals (P > 0.05). As regards to AC, we showed that this lesion had an increase in expression of HLA-G, HLA-E, IL-10 and PD-L1 when compared to control; however this increase was statistically significant only for PD-L1 (P= 0.04). Conclusion: The OL showed a reduced cytotoxic immune response (low number of GB+ cells) associated with a high expression of immunomodulatory mediators; however, this expression was independent of epithelial dysplasia grading, proliferation and apoptosis index. Regarding AC we also showed an increase in expression of HLA-G, -E, IL-10 and PD-L1 when compared to the control. Thus, our findings suggest that this lesion present an immunosuppressive microenvironment which favors the escape of mutated keratinocytes in any stage dysplastic, proliferation or apoptosis which this disease finds itself.