Identification of human autologous cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-defined osteosarcoma gene that encodes a transcriptional regulator, papillomavirus binding factor.
The prognosis for patients with osteosarcoma who do not respond to current chemotherapy protocols still remains poor. Toward the goal of establishing efficacious peptide-based immunotherapy for those patients, we previously developed an autologous pair of CTLs and an osteosarcoma cell line. In the current study, we screened the cDNA library of this osteosarcoma cell line using an autologous CTL clone and identified cDNA encoding an antigen. The isolated cDNA was identical to papillomavirus binding factor (PBF), which was recently reported as a DNA binding transcription factor cooperating with RUNX1. Reverse transcription-PCR analysis revealed that PBF was expressed in 16 of 19 cases of bone and soft-tissue sarcoma cell lines (5 of 6 of osteosarcoma lines) and 57 of 76 sarcoma tissue samples (11 of 14 of osteosarcoma tissues). Also, PBF was expressed in 10 of 13 epithelial cancer cell lines and 20 of 34 of cancer tissues. In contrast, PBF was detected in some normal organs including ovary, pancreas, spleen, and liver by reverse transcription-PCR but was restricted in the cytoplasm by immunostaining and undetectable by Western blotting. Furthermore, a 12-mer peptide, CTACRWKKACQR, located at the COOH terminus of PBF, was found to be a minimum requirement for recognition by the CTL clone in the context of the HLA-B*5502 molecule. These findings suggest that PBF is a shared tumor-associated antigen, which may serve as a source of peptides applicable to peptide-based immunotherapy for osteosarcoma and other malignant tumors.
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, South 1, West 16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan.
Tomohide
T
Tsukahara
Yuki
Y
Nabeta
Satoshi
S
Kawaguchi
Hideyuki
H
Ikeda
Yuriko
Y
Sato
Kumiko
K
Shimozawa
Kazunori
K
Ida
Hiroko
H
Asanuma
Yoshihiko
Y
Hirohashi
Toshihiko
T
Torigoe
Hiroaki
H
Hiraga
Satoshi
S
Nagoya
Takuro
T
Wada
Toshihiko
T
Yamashita
Noriyuki
N
Sato
D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D015723:Gene Library; D015234:HLA-A Antigens / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000235:genetics*; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000378:metabolism*; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D015234:HLA-A Antigens; D010446:Peptide Fragments