title: Recognition and lysis of human melanoma by a CD3+, CD4+, CD8- T-cell clone restricted by HLA-A2.
abstract: The in vitro cytotoxic response to human melanoma is characterized by CD3+ CD8+ T-cells which recognize shared peptide antigens presented in the context of HLA class-I-encoded gene products. We report here studies of a CD3+, CD4+, CD8-, HLA-A2-restricted, melanoma-specific cytotoxic T-cell clone derived by limiting dilution from a T-cell line induced in PBLs from a melanoma patient following in vitro stimulation with an HLA-A2-matched melanoma cell line. The CD4+ cytotoxic T-cell clone is lytic only for melanomas which share the HLA-A2 allele, and the cytotoxicity is blocked by antibody to the T-cell receptor and by antibody to HLA class I. The clone proliferates only following stimulation with HLA-A2-matched melanoma tumor cells. The data suggest that cytotoxic CD4+ T-cells may play a significant role in immunity to melanoma, and HLA class-I-restricted recognition of melanoma may not necessarily require the CD8 molecule on the lytic T-cell.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Darrow
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Abdel-Wahab
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Quinn-Allen
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Seigler
mesh_terms: D017252:CD3 Complex / Q000276:immunology*; D015704:CD4 Antigens / Q000276:immunology*; D016827:CD8 Antigens / Q000276:immunology*; D002455:Cell Division; D002999:Clone Cells; D015789:HLA-A2 Antigen / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D017252:CD3 Complex; D015704:CD4 Antigens; D016827:CD8 Antigens; D015789:HLA-A2 Antigen