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From: Exploring dendritic cell based vaccines targeting survivin for the treatment of head and neck cancer patients

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Spontaneously arising survivin specific T cells in patients. A) Direct ex vivo tetramer staining of T cells derived from HNSCC patients. The patients (1 thru 5) were all HLA-A2 positive and the CD8 positive T cells were stained with HLA-A2 tetramers containing either the survivin 5 (light grey bars), survivin 96 (dark grey bars) or the modified survivin 96M (black bars) epitope. The percentage tetramer positive T cells in incidated on the Y-axis. B) PBMC from HNSCC patients were stained with HLA-A2 tetramers containing the survivin 5 epitope and subsequently sorted by flow cytometry. Cells were plated out at a concentration of 0.2 cells per well and stimulated with feeder mix weekly. The left hand panel shows the forward scatter (X-axis; FSC) and side scatter (Y-axis; SSC) of the cells after four weeks of stimulation with feeder mix. A boxed live gate is indicated. The right hand panel shows tetramer staining of the cells in the live gates. Survivin 5 tetramer labeled with either APC (X-axis) or PE (Y-axis) were used to stain the T cells. The percentage of double tetramer positive cells is shown in the upper right quadrant. C) Draining lymph nodes were obtained from a patient with locally advanced breast cancer, who had received neo-adjuvant chemotherapy before surgery. The spontaneously arising T cells were tested in an ELIspot assay against a number of different HLA-A2 binding peptides representing CTL epitopes; Survivin(95–104), CEA(571–579), Her-2/Neu(369–377) and Her-2/Neu(654–662) respectively and HPV16E7-(11–20) peptide as a negative control. Indicated are the number of spots per 100.000 T cells.

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