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  • Title: Myeloid dendritic cells loaded with dendritic tandem multiple antigenic telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) epitope peptides: a potentially promising tumor vaccine.
    Author: Niu BL, Du HM, Shen HP, Lian ZR, Li JZ, Lai X, Wei SD, Zou LQ, Gong JP.
    Journal: Vaccine; 2012 May 14; 30(23):3395-404. PubMed ID: 22480929.
    Abstract:
    Human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) has been identified as an ideal tumor-associated antigen (TAA). Use of a synthetic hTERT epitope peptide to pulse dendritic cells can induce autologous T cell anti-tumor immune responses, but such responses induced by a single epitope peptide have been shown to be weak and a narrow-spectrum. Here, we designed dendritic tandem multiple antigenic peptides (MAPs) containing the following three hTERT epitope peptides: I540, V461 and L766, which are HLA-A*02-, HLA-A*24- and HLA-RDB1*04/11/15-restricted, respectively. The MAPs and their three single-epitope peptides were obtained through solid-phase synthesis. Healthy volunteers that were HLA-A*02(+)/HLA-DRB1*04(+) and HLA-A*24(+)/HLA-DRB1*15(+) were recruited. Myeloid dendritic cells were isolated by magnetic activated cell sorting and were divided into a MAP-stimulated group (MAP-DC), a group in which the three epitope peptides were mixed and used to stimulate the DCs (MixP-DC) and a no peptide-stimulated group (NoP-DC, control group). All of the DCs were cultured in serum-free medium, pulsed with the corresponding peptides on the 3rd, 5th and 7th days, and co-cultured with autologous lymphocytes when they were mature. The related cytokines were measured via ELISA. The killing effects of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) on SW480/A549 tumor cells expressing HLA-A*02(+), HepG2/SMMC-7721 cells expressing HLA-A*24(+) and SKOV3 cells negative for HLA-A*02/A*24 were detected by flow cytometry. Our results indicated that the CTLs induced by the MAP-DCs had the greatest anti-tumor effect. Therefore, the dendritic tandem multiple antigenic hTERT epitope peptides combined with MDCs may represent a powerful, broad-spectrum anti-tumor vaccine.
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