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DNA Damage, Repair and Carcinogenesis
DNA Damage, Repair and Carcinogenesis
Carcinogenesis
CANCER IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE OR
IMMUNOCONTROLLING
Elimination phase
• Carcinogens
• Radiation
Equilibrium phase • Viral infections
• Chronic inflamation
(cancer persistance/dormancy • Inherited genetic
mutations
Danger signals
Escape phase NKG2D ligand
(cancer progression) Transformed cells
Tumor
antigen Normal cell
CD4+
T cell
CD4+
T cell Equilibrium phase
γδ T
Mɸ cells CD8+
DC
• Perforin
Innate and
• IFN-α/β
adaptive immunity • IFN-γ
• TRAIL
• NKG2D
• IL-12
Normal cell
Highly immunogenic
transformed cell
EQUILIBRIUM PHASE: cancer persistence/dormancy
CD8+T
cell CD4+ IL-12
T cell
IFN-δ
Escape phase
Bcl-2,FLIP
VEGF CD8+T MHC
M2 cell
Mɸ
CTLA-4
Treg
(CDC)
(CDC)
CDC
Suppression
phénotypique des
antigènes
Different ways for self antigens to become tumoral antigens
Tumoral cell
Mutated
peptide
Normal cell
Peptides of overexpressed
self protein
Tumoral cell
Self protein MHC class I
Self
peptide
Cellular damage