title: Generation of anti-p53 cytotoxic T lymphocytes from human peripheral blood using autologous dendritic cells.
abstract: CTLs recognizing the HLA-A2.1-restricted, wild-type sequence p53 epitopes p53(149-157) and p53(264-272) were generated from CD8-enriched populations of nonadherent peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) obtained from healthy donors. The PBLs were restimulated in vitro with peptide-pulsed granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor- and interleukin (IL)-4-induced autologous dendritic cells in the presence of IL-6 and IL-12 and subsequently cultivated with IL-1alpha, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, and IL-7. Bulk anti-p53(264-272) CTL populations were generated from PBLs obtained from two of five donors. Both CTL populations were cytotoxic against peptide-pulsed HLA-A2+ target cells, but not against untreated target cells. A CD8+ anti-p53 CTL clone designated p264#2 was isolated from one of the bulk populations. It was found to have an intermediate affinity of approximately 10(-9) M for the epitope and to mediate cytotoxicity against several human tumor cell lines, including the squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck cell line SCC-9, which is known to present the wild-type sequence p53(264-272) epitope. In addition, CTLs reactive against p53(149-157)-pulsed targets as well as a HLA-A2+ tumor cell line were cloned from a bulk population of antitumor CTLs obtained from one of the five normal PBLs restimulated with this epitope. The results indicate that CTLs recognizing wild-type sequence epitopes can be generated from precursors present in PBLs obtained from some normal individuals using autologous dendritic cells as antigen-presenting cells and suggest that vaccine strategies targeting these epitopes can lead to antitumor CTL generation, thereby emphasizing the therapeutic potential of p53-based cancer vaccines.
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chikamatsu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Storkus
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Appella
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Lotze
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Whiteside
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: DeLeo
mesh_terms: D015703:Antigens, CD / Q000378:metabolism; D018414:CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D002469:Cell Separation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002999:Clone Cells / Q000276:immunology; D003601:Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000276:immunology*; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology; D015789:HLA-A2 Antigen / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007378:Interleukins / Q000378:metabolism; D016131:Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000276:immunology; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D015703:Antigens, CD; D000939:Epitopes; D015789:HLA-A2 Antigen; D007378:Interleukins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53