The Intronic Region of an Incompletely Spliced gp100 Gene Transcript Encodes an Epitope Recognized by Melanoma-Reactive Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 303-308

  Robbins, Paul F ^a   El Gamil, Mona ^a   Li, Yong F ^a   Fitzgerald, Ellen B ^a   Kawakami, Yutaka ^a   Rosenberg, Steven A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA A24 ANTIGEN; MELANOCYTE LINEAGE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN GP100; MELANOCYTE LINEAGE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN GP100; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRON; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; RNA SPLICING; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BASE SEQUENCE; EPITOPES; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INTRONS; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031183901     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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