Identification of new melanoma epitopes on melanosomal proteins recognized by tumor infiltrating T lymphocytes restricted by HLA-A1, -A2, and -A3 alleles

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 6985-6992

  Kawakami, Yutaka ^a,b   Robbins, Paul F ^b   Wang, Xiang ^b   Tupesis, Janis P ^b   Parkhurst, Maria R ^b   Kang, Xiaoqiang ^b   Sakaguchi, Kazuyasu ^c   Appella, Ettore ^c   Rosenberg, Steven A ^b,c  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ALLELE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; DNA LIBRARY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; MELANOSOME; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE;

EID: 0032534587     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.161.12.6985     Document Type: Article

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