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J Exp Med ; 193(1): 73-88, 2001 Jan 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11136822

ABSTRACT

We report the efficient identification of four human histocompatibility leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A(*)0201-presented cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) epitopes in the tumor-associated antigen PRAME using an improved "reverse immunology" strategy. Next to motif-based HLA-A(*)0201 binding prediction and actual binding and stability assays, analysis of in vitro proteasome-mediated digestions of polypeptides encompassing candidate epitopes was incorporated in the epitope prediction procedure. Proteasome cleavage pattern analysis, in particular determination of correct COOH-terminal cleavage of the putative epitope, allows a far more accurate and selective prediction of CTL epitopes. Only 4 of 19 high affinity HLA-A(*)0201 binding peptides (21%) were found to be efficiently generated by the proteasome in vitro. This approach avoids laborious CTL response inductions against high affinity binding peptides that are not processed and limits the number of peptides to be assayed for binding. CTL clones induced against the four identified epitopes (VLDGLDVLL, PRA(100-108); SLYSFPEPEA, PRA(142-151); ALYVDSLFFL, PRA(300-309); and SLLQHLIGL, PRA(425-433)) lysed melanoma, renal cell carcinoma, lung carcinoma, and mammary carcinoma cell lines expressing PRAME and HLA-A(*)0201. This indicates that these epitopes are expressed on cancer cells of diverse histologic origin, making them attractive targets for immunotherapy of cancer.


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Antigen Presentation , Antigens, Neoplasm/metabolism , Cysteine Endopeptidases/metabolism , HLA-A Antigens/metabolism , Multienzyme Complexes/metabolism , T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology , Amino Acid Sequence , Antigens, Neoplasm/genetics , Base Sequence , Cell Line, Transformed , Cytotoxicity, Immunologic , DNA Primers/genetics , Epitopes/genetics , Epitopes/metabolism , Humans , Molecular Sequence Data , Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex , Protein Binding , RNA, Messenger/genetics , RNA, Messenger/metabolism , RNA, Neoplasm/genetics , RNA, Neoplasm/metabolism , Tumor Cells, Cultured
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