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Misinitiation of intrathymic MART‐1 transcription and biased TCR usage explain the high frequency of MART‐1‐specific T cells
20 May 2014
Abstract excerpt
Immunity to tumor differentiation antigens, such as melanoma antigen recognized by T cells 1 (MART-1), has been comprehensively studied. Intriguingly, CD8(+) T cells specific for the MART-1(26(27)-35) epitope in the context of HLA-A0201 are about 100 times more abundant compared with T cells specific for other tumor-associated antigens. Moreover, MART-1-specific CD8(+) T cells show a highly biased usage of the...
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