title: Generation of multiple peptide cocktail-pulsed dendritic cells as a cancer vaccine.
abstract: Cancer immunotherapy based on dendritic cell (DC) vaccination has promising alternatives for the treatment of cancer. A central tenet of DC-based cancer immunotherapy is the generation of antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response. Tumor-associated antigens (TAA) and DC play pivotal roles in this process. DCs are well known to be the most potent antigen-presenting cells and have the most powerful antigen-presenting capacity. DCs pulsed with various TAA have been shown to be effective in producing specific antitumor effects both in vitro and in vivo. Several types of tumor antigens have been applied in cancer treatment including tumor RNA, lysates, apoptotic bodies, heat shock protein, peptides from TAA, and allogeneic tumor cells. Among them, the use of immunogenic HLA-A*0201-specific epitopes from multiple TAA enhances induction of antigen-specific CTL and associated therapeutic efficacy in HLA-A*0201(+) cancer patients. The current chapter provides a detailed protocol of generating multiple peptide cocktail-pulsed DC to elicit CTL with a broad spectrum of immune responses against the related tumor antigens.
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Hwasun Hospital, Chonnam National University, Hwasun, Jeollanamdo, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hyun-Ju
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Nu-Ri
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Manh-Cuong
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Vo
authors.forename: My-Dung
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Hoang
authors.forename: Youn-Kyung
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Je-Jung
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000276:immunology; D019496:Cancer Vaccines / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D002460:Cell Line; D002469:Cell Separation; D016207:Cytokines / Q000096:biosynthesis; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000637:transplantation; D015789:HLA-A2 Antigen / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype; D055550:Protein Stability; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D019496:Cancer Vaccines; D016207:Cytokines; C435939:HLA-A*02:01 antigen; D015789:HLA-A2 Antigen