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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-2-21
pubmed:abstractText
Identification of tumor antigens and their optimal antigenic peptides raised hopes for the development of peptide-based immunotherapeutic vaccine strategies for human melanoma, however. Synthetic peptides alone are not immunogenic enough, and adequate formulation is critical for elaboration of peptide vaccines. To improve formulation, we evaluated 2 lipopeptide constructs, both including HLA-A2-restricted MART 27-35-CD8+ T lymphocyte (CTL) epitope covalently linked to universal tetanus toxoid (TT) 830-843 helper T lymphocyte (HTL) epitope, in HLA-A2 transgenic mouse models that mimic human CTL responses in vivo. These 2 constructs only differed in the formulation of their lipid tail. We showed that lipopeptide constructs were strongly recognized, in vitro, by human MART 27-35 cytotoxic T cells derived from tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. The transgenic Mice immunized with these 2 MART lipopeptide formulations containing covalently linked HTL-CTL epitopes induced strong MART 27-35 cytotoxic T cells. This CTL induction was critically dependent on the presence of the helper T lymphocyte epitope. These results also showed that a single palmitoyl-lysine chain is enough to assure immunogenicity of a given peptide and that the presence of a lipid tail bypass the need for adjuvant. These results support the selection of MART-lipopeptide melanoma vaccine for evaluation in a clinical trial.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0020-7136
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
10
pubmed:volume
98
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
221-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Adjuvants, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Cancer Vaccines, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Epitopes, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-HLA-A2 Antigen, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Lipoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Melanoma, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Neoplasm Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Tetanus Toxoid, pubmed-meshheading:11857412-Tumor Cells, Cultured
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Lipopeptide-based melanoma cancer vaccine induced a strong MART-27-35-cytotoxic T lymphocyte response in a preclinal study.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire d'Immunologie des Pathologies Infectieuses et Tumorales, INSERM unité 445, I.C.G.M., Université R.Descartes, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't