Affinity, specificity and T-cell-receptor diversity of melanoma- specific CTL generated in vitro against a single tyrosinase epitope

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1122-1128

  Visseren, Marjan J W ^a   Van Der Burg, Sjoerd H ^a   Hawes, Gail E ^a   Van Der Voort, Ellen I H ^a   Van Den Elsen, Peter J ^a   Melief, Cornelis J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX RESTRICTION; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL DESTRUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; EPITOPES; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR ALPHA; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030754332     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970917)72:6<1122::AID-IJC30>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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