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Serological immune response to cancer testis antigens in patients with pancreatic cancer
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-15384
URL: http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2008/1538/
Quelle:
(2006) International journal of cancer. - 119. 2006, 1, S. 117-125
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Institut 1:
Fachrichtung 2.7 - Innere Medizin
Institut 2:
Fachrichtung 2.9 - Chirurgie
Institut 3:
Fachrichtung 2.22 - Pathologie
DDC-Sachgruppe:
Medizin
Dokumentart:
Aufsatz
Sprache:
Deutsch
Erstellungsjahr:
2006
Publikationsdatum:
15.05.2008
Kurzfassung auf Englisch:
Serological screening approaches have allowed for the identification of a large number of potentially relevant tumor antigens in cancer patients. Within this group, cancer testis antigens represent promising targets for cancer immunotherapy, since they are widely expressed in a variety of human cancer entities. In pancreatic cancer, however, there are only few data available about the expression pattern and serological response to cancer testis antigens and other serological-defined tumor antigens. Therefore, we investigated the IgG antibody response against 11 cancer testis antigens (SCP-1, GAGE, LAGE-1a,-1b, CT-7, NY-ESO-1, SSX-1-5) recombinantly expressed on yeast surface (RAYS) in patients with pancreatic cancer (n = 96), chronic pancreatitis (n = 18) and healthy donors (n = 48). We found in 14% of all patients antibody responses to SCP-1, but not to other cancer testis antigens (GAGE, LAGE-1a,-1b, CT-7, NY-ESO-1, SSX-1-5). Antibody response correlated with the expression of SCP-1 in the primary tumor of the respective patient as shown by RT-PCR, immunohistochemistry and Western blot. In contrast, no serological response to cancer testis antigens was observed in healthy donors. The humoral immune response against SCP-1 was associated with the size of tumor, but not with other clinico-pathological parameters such as histology, stage, presence of lymph node metastases, grading, age, gender or gemcitabine treatment. In conclusion, antibody response to cancer testis antigen SCP-1 is found in a proportion of pancreatic carcinoma patients. These results indicate that identification of additional tumor antigens by serological screening of tumor cDNA expression libraries by RAYS is a promising goal in pancreatic cancer.