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Tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses against chondrosarcoma with HLA haplotype loss restricted by the remaining HLA class I allele.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 31 Aug 2001
Hiraki A, Ikeda K, Yoshino T, Kaneshige T, Kiura K, Kunisada T, Fujiwara K, Tanimoto M, Harada M
Abstract excerpt
Although loss of HLA expression by malignant cells has also been demonstrated, it has not been clarified how the loss of HLA expression observed in vitro actually results in immune escape. We demonstrated two major findings: (i) a part of chromosome 6 coding for HLA haplotypes was deleted from the genome of chondrosarcoma cell line, OUMS-27; furthermore, immunohistostaining for HLA-A11 showed that the original...
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