作者: Oliver Goodyear , Karen Piper , Naeem Khan , Jane Starczynski , Prem Mahendra
DOI: 10.1182/BLOOD-2005-02-0563
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摘要: The expression of cancer germline antigens (CGAgs) is normally restricted to the testis but also present in many types malignant cells including plasma from patients with myeloma. Because T-cell immune responses CGAg have been identified solid tumors, this may offer a novel target for immunotherapy We used 12 peptide epitopes range CGAgs screen CGAg-specific T blood multiple myeloma at various stages their disease. 15 37 responded one or more peptides and magnitude CD8+ response ranged between 0.0004% 0.1% total pool. Serial analyses showed that these were detectable individual time points during course In undergoing treatment disease relapse, was positively correlated level paraprotein. Functional specific are therefore proportion possibility approach