Identification of multiple cancer/testis antigens by allogeneic antibody screening of a melanoma cell line library. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Cancer/testis (CT) antigens-immunogenic protein antigens that are expressed in testis and a proportion of diverse human cancer types-are promising targets for cancer vaccines. To identify new CT antigens, we constructed an expression cDNA library from a melanoma cell line that expresses a wide range of CT antigens and screened the library with an allogeneic melanoma patient serum known to contain antibodies against two CT antigens, MAGE-1 and NY-ESO-1. cDNA clones isolated from this library identified four CT antigen genes: MAGE-4a, NY-ESO-1, LAGE-1, and CT7. Of these four, only MAGE-4a and NY-ESO-1 proteins had been shown to be immunogenic. LAGE-1 is a member of the NY-ESO-1 gene family, and CT7 is a newly defined gene with partial sequence homology to the MAGE family at its carboxyl terminus. The predicted CT7 protein, however, contains a distinct repetitive sequence at the 5' end and is much larger than MAGE proteins. Our findings document the immunogenicity of LAGE-1 and CT7 and emphasize the power of serological analysis of cDNA expression libraries in identifying new human tumor antigens.

publication date

  • June 9, 1998

Research

keywords

  • Antibodies
  • Antigens, Neoplasm
  • Melanoma
  • Testis

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC22686

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0032499710

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.95.12.6919

PubMed ID

  • 9618514

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 95

issue

  • 12