Molecular basis of T cell-mediated recognition of pancreatic cancer cells.
Pancreatic cancer continues to be a major unsolved health problem in the world. The prognosis of pancreatic cancer is extremely poor with a median survival of 3-4 months and the 5-year survival being 1-4%. This poor prognosis is primarily because of a lack of effective therapies, and thus development of new treatment modalities is needed. One of these treatments could involve specific immunotherapy, for which elucidation off the molecular basis of T cell-mediated recognition of cancer cells is required. We report here six different genes and 19 immunogenic epitopes from pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells and T-cell receptor beta usage of HLA-A2-restricted CTL clones reacting to some of these epitopes. Sixteen of 19 epitopes were found to possess the ability to induce HLA-A2-restricted CTL activity in the peripheral blood lymphocytes of patients with pancreatic and also colon adenocarcinomas. These results should provide a scientific basis for the development of specific immunotherapy for pancreatic and colon cancer patients.
Department of Immunology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
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Ito
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Shichijo
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Tsuda
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Ochi
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Harashima
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Saito
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D019556:COS Cells; D006224:Cricetinae; D018984:Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte / Q000276:immunology; D015789:HLA-A2 Antigen / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007371:Interferon-gamma / Q000096:biosynthesis; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta / Q000276:immunology; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D014162:Transfection
D018984:Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte; D015789:HLA-A2 Antigen; D009842:Oligopeptides; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta; D007371:Interferon-gamma