title: Enhancement of cytolytic T lymphocyte precursor frequency in melanoma patients following immunization with the MAGE-1 peptide loaded antigen presenting cell-based vaccine.
abstract: Identification of human melanoma-associated peptide antigens for CTLs has opened unprecedented opportunities for active specific immunotherapy for melanoma with synthetic peptide. We have shown that immunization with a MAGE-1 gene encoded nonapeptide (EADPT-GHSY)-pulsed autologous antigen presenting cell-based vaccine induces autologous melanoma-reactive and peptide-specific CTL response, in situ, at the vaccination site and at distant tumor deposits in patients who are HLA-A1+ and whose melanoma cells express the MAGE-1 mRNA. Here, we show that such immunization is also capable of increasing the frequency of autologous melanoma-reactive CTL precursors in the circulation. We further show that in vitro stimulation of the postimmunization peripheral blood lymphocytes with the MAGE-1 nonapeptide-loaded antigen presenting cell and interleukin-2 leads to significant expansion of peptide-specific and autologous melanoma-reactive CTL response.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington 06030, USA.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Chakraborty
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Sporn
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kurtzman
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Ergin
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mukherji
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000938:Antigen-Presenting Cells / Q000276:immunology; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000276:immunology*; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization; D008545:Melanoma / Q000276:immunology*; D058950:Melanoma-Specific Antigens; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology*; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000096:biosynthesis; D014612:Vaccines / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; C072011:MAGEA1 protein, human; D058950:Melanoma-Specific Antigens; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D010455:Peptides; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D014612:Vaccines