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CD4(+) T-cell recognition of mutated B-RAF in melanoma patients harboring the V599E mutation.
Cancer research - 1 Mar 2004
Sharkey Melinda S, Lizée Gregory, Gonzales Monica I, Patel Sima, Topalian Suzanne L
Abstract excerpt
The potential of antigen-directed cancer immunotherapy has not been fully realized, perhaps because many commonly targeted tumor associated proteins are not essential to maintaining the malignant cell phenotype. A constitutively activating mutation in the signaling molecule BRAF is expressed frequently in melanomas and may play an important role in the biology of this disease. A 29-mer B-Raf peptide incorporating...
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