| First Author | Böhm W | Year | 1997 |
| Journal | Cancer Immunol Immunother | Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 | Pages | 230-8 |
| PubMed ID | 9222282 | Mgi Jnum | J:41689 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:894219 | Doi | 10.1007/s002620050378 |
| Citation | Bohm W, et al. (1997) Targeting an anti-viral CD8+ T cell response to a growing tumor facilitates its rejection. Cancer Immunol Immunother 44(4):230-8 |
| abstractText | We demonstrate in a murine model that targeting an anti-viral T cell response to a growing tumor facilitates priming of a tumor-associated antigen (TAA)-specific, rejecting T cell response. Murine P815 mastocytoma cells grow aggressively in a syngeneic host. Transfected P815/S cells (expressing the hepatitis B surface antigen, HBsAg) also grow as subcutaneous tumors, but occasional 'spontaneous' rejections after transient growth are observed. Growth of P815/S tumors (but not of P815 tumors) is efficiently suppressed by a CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-dependent immune mechanism in mice primed to HBsAg by DNA-immunization. In hosts immunized against HBsAg by DNA vaccination, HBsAg-specific CTL are generated. This specific CTL reactivity was targeted to s.c.-growing P815 tumors by intra tumor injections of either HBsAg-encoding plasmid DNA or viable P815/S cells; this treatment led to tumor rejection in 70-80% of the tumor-bearing animals. All rejecting animals showed a CD8+ CTL-dependent resistance to subsequent challenges by native, non-transfected P815 tumors. Targeting an established anti-viral ('strong') CTL response to a growing tumor hence is an efficient strategy to facilitate priming of a rejecting CTL response against ('weak') TAA in this system. |
