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Demethylation of cancer/testis antigens and CpG ODN stimulation enhance dendritic cell and cytotoxic T lymphocyte function in a mouse mammary model.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2013
Sun Jun-Zhong, Gao Lei, Gao Li, Wang Wei, Du Nan, Yang Juan, Wan Ling, Liu Fang, Wang Li-li, Yu Li
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Cancer/testis antigens (CTAs) are ideal targets for cancer immunotherapy in virtue of their restricted expression profile in normal tissues. However, CTA-targeted immunotherapy has been rather disappointing clinical setting for CTAs are downregulated by cytosine-phosphate-guanosine (CpG) methylation in their promoter regions, so that tumor cells have low immunogenicity. METHODS: We reinduced mouse CTA...
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