TY - JOUR
T1 - Large and dissimilar repertoire of Melan-A/MART-1-specific CTL in metastatic lesions and blood of a melanoma patient
AU - Mandruzzato, Susanna
AU - Rossi, Elisabetta
AU - Bernardi, Fabiola
AU - Tosello, Valeria
AU - Macino, Beatrice
AU - Basso, Giuseppe
AU - Chiarion-Sileni, Vanna
AU - Rossi, Carlo Riccardo
AU - Montesco, Cristina
AU - Zanovello, Paola
PY - 2002/10/1
Y1 - 2002/10/1
N2 - It is widely accepted that the repertoire of Melan-A-specific T cells naturally selected in melanoma patients is diverse and mostly nonoverlapping among different individuals. To date, however, no studies have addressed the TCR profile in different tumor sites and the peripheral blood from the same patient. We compared the TCR usage of Melan-A-specific T cells from different compartments of a single melanoma patient to evaluate possible clonotype expansion or preferential homing over a 4-mo follow-up period. Using HLA-A2 peptide tetramers, CD8+ T cells recognizing the modified Melan-A immunodominant ELAGIGILTV peptide were isolated from four metastatic lesions resected from a single melanoma patient, and their TCR repertoire was studied. A panel of T cell clones was generated by cell cloning of tetramer-positive cells. Analysis of the TCR β-chain V segment and the complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) length and sequence revealed a large diversity in the TCR repertoire, with only some of the clones showing a partial conservation in the CDR3. A similar degree of diversity was found by analyzing a number of T cell clones obtained after sorting a Melan-A-specific population derived from PBLs of the same patient after in vitro culture with the immunodominant epitope. Moreover, clonotypes found at one site were not present in another, suggesting the lack of expansion and circulation of one or more clonotypes. Taken together, these results buttress the notion that the CTLs recognizing the immunodominant Ag of Melan-A comprise a high number of different clonotypic TCR, of which only some exhibit common features in the CDR3.
AB - It is widely accepted that the repertoire of Melan-A-specific T cells naturally selected in melanoma patients is diverse and mostly nonoverlapping among different individuals. To date, however, no studies have addressed the TCR profile in different tumor sites and the peripheral blood from the same patient. We compared the TCR usage of Melan-A-specific T cells from different compartments of a single melanoma patient to evaluate possible clonotype expansion or preferential homing over a 4-mo follow-up period. Using HLA-A2 peptide tetramers, CD8+ T cells recognizing the modified Melan-A immunodominant ELAGIGILTV peptide were isolated from four metastatic lesions resected from a single melanoma patient, and their TCR repertoire was studied. A panel of T cell clones was generated by cell cloning of tetramer-positive cells. Analysis of the TCR β-chain V segment and the complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) length and sequence revealed a large diversity in the TCR repertoire, with only some of the clones showing a partial conservation in the CDR3. A similar degree of diversity was found by analyzing a number of T cell clones obtained after sorting a Melan-A-specific population derived from PBLs of the same patient after in vitro culture with the immunodominant epitope. Moreover, clonotypes found at one site were not present in another, suggesting the lack of expansion and circulation of one or more clonotypes. Taken together, these results buttress the notion that the CTLs recognizing the immunodominant Ag of Melan-A comprise a high number of different clonotypic TCR, of which only some exhibit common features in the CDR3.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 12244204
AN - SCOPUS:0036784658
VL - 169
SP - 4017
EP - 4024
JO - Journal of Immunology
JF - Journal of Immunology
SN - 0022-1767
IS - 7
ER -