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Dendritic cells infected with a vaccinia vector carrying the human gp100 gene simultaneously present multiple specificities and elicit high-affinity T cells reactive to multiple epitopes and restricted by HLA-A2 and -A3.

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Yang, S; Kittlesen, D; Slingluff, CL; Vervaert, CE; Seigler, HF; Darrow, TL
Published in: J Immunol
April 15, 2000

To investigate the ability of human dendritic cells (DC) to process and present multiple epitopes from the gp100 melanoma tumor-associated Ags (TAA), DC from melanoma patients expressing HLA-A2 and HLA-A3 were pulsed with gp100-derived peptides G9154, G9209, or G9280 or were infected with a vaccinia vector (Vac-Pmel/gp100) containing the gene for gp100 and used to elicit CTL from autologous PBL. CTL were also generated after stimulation of PBL with autologous tumor. CTL induced with autologous tumor stimulation demonstrated HLA-A2-restricted, gp100-specific lysis of autologous and allogeneic tumors and no lysis of HLA-A3-expressing, gp100+ target cells. CTL generated by G9154, G9209, or G9280 peptide-pulsed, DC-lysed, HLA-A2-matched EBV transformed B cells pulsed with the corresponding peptide. CTL generated by Vac-Pmel/gp100-infected DC (DC/Pmel) lysed HLA-A2- or HLA-A3-matched B cell lines pulsed with the HLA-A2-restricted G9154, G9209, or G9280 or with the HLA-A3-restricted G917 peptide derived from gp100. Furthermore, these DC/Pmel-induced CTL demonstrated potent cytotoxicity against allogeneic HLA-A2- or HLA-A3-matched gp100+ melanoma cells and autologous tumor. We conclude that DC-expressing TAA present multiple gp100 epitopes in the context of multiple HLA class I-restricting alleles and elicit CTL that recognize multiple gp100-derived peptides in the context of multiple HLA class I alleles. The data suggest that for tumor immunotherapy, genetically modified DC that express an entire TAA may present the full array of possible CTL epitopes in the context of all possible HLA alleles and may be superior to DC pulsed with limited numbers of defined peptides.

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J Immunol

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0022-1767

Publication Date

April 15, 2000

Volume

164

Issue

8

Start / End Page

4204 / 4211

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • gp100 Melanoma Antigen
  • Vaccinia virus
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured
  • T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic
  • Neoplasm Proteins
  • Membrane Glycoproteins
  • Melanoma
  • Lymphocyte Activation
  • Immunology
  • Humans
 

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Yang, S., Kittlesen, D., Slingluff, C. L., Vervaert, C. E., Seigler, H. F., & Darrow, T. L. (2000). Dendritic cells infected with a vaccinia vector carrying the human gp100 gene simultaneously present multiple specificities and elicit high-affinity T cells reactive to multiple epitopes and restricted by HLA-A2 and -A3. J Immunol, 164(8), 4204–4211. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.164.8.4204
Yang, S., D. Kittlesen, C. L. Slingluff, C. E. Vervaert, H. F. Seigler, and T. L. Darrow. “Dendritic cells infected with a vaccinia vector carrying the human gp100 gene simultaneously present multiple specificities and elicit high-affinity T cells reactive to multiple epitopes and restricted by HLA-A2 and -A3.J Immunol 164, no. 8 (April 15, 2000): 4204–11. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.164.8.4204.

Published In

J Immunol

DOI

ISSN

0022-1767

Publication Date

April 15, 2000

Volume

164

Issue

8

Start / End Page

4204 / 4211

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • gp100 Melanoma Antigen
  • Vaccinia virus
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured
  • T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic
  • Neoplasm Proteins
  • Membrane Glycoproteins
  • Melanoma
  • Lymphocyte Activation
  • Immunology
  • Humans