PMID: 9185699Jun 11, 1997Paper

T-cell receptor CDR3 size distribution analysis to evaluate specific T-cell response to cancer vaccines

International Journal of Cancer. Journal International Du Cancer
F FaraceF Triebel

Abstract

To evaluate immunization procedures in cancer patients, it is important to define which biological parameters reflecting a specific immune response to the vaccine should be followed. One of these may be the recruitment or expansion of clonally amplified T-cell subpopulations previously primed by tumor-specific antigen that could be detected in tiny samples by CDR3 length analysis of T-cell receptor Vbeta transcripts. To evaluate this procedure, we studied one patient with metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma who had received 4 intradermal injections of irradiated autologous tumor cells plus IL-2 on days 1, 8, 15 and 36. Skin tests for delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) reaction to irradiated autologous tumor cells were performed on days 1 and 43. Although no change was observed in day 43 PBMCs, some recurrent transcripts were detected with similar CDR3 size patterns in both vaccine and DTH sites. Fine analysis of these Vbeta-Cbeta PCR products with Jbeta primers confirmed that transcripts with similar length were recruited in both vaccine and DTH sites. Induction of an inflammatory response in both DTH and vaccine sites may therefore be associated with the recruitment of few T-cell clonotypes. In addition, a Vbeta15-Jbeta2.5 t...Continue Reading

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