title: Role of bone marrow-derived cells in presenting MHC class I-restricted tumor antigens.
abstract: Many tumors express tumor-specific antigens capable of being presented to CD8+ T cells by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules. Antigen presentation models predict that the tumor cell itself should present these antigens to T cells. However, when conditions for the priming of tumor-specific responses were examined in mice, no detectable presentation of MHC class I-restricted tumor antigens by the tumor itself was found. Rather, tumor antigens were exclusively presented by host bone marrow-derived cells. Thus, MHC class I-restricted antigens are efficiently transferred in vivo to bone marrow-derived antigen-presenting cells, which suggests that human leukocyte antigen matching may be less critical in the application of tumor vaccines than previously thought.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
authors.forename: A Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Golumbek
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ahmadzadeh
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jaffee
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pardoll
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Levitsky
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000938:Antigen-Presenting Cells / Q000276:immunology*; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000276:immunology*; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000276:immunology; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology; D000939:Epitopes; D005260:Female; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D006183:H-2 Antigens / Q000276:immunology; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I / Q000276:immunology*; D008546:Melanoma, Experimental / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins; D009698:Nucleoproteins; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D014758:Viral Core Proteins / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D000939:Epitopes; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins; D009698:Nucleoproteins; D014758:Viral Core Proteins; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor