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 Blood, 1 August 2005, Vol. 106, No. 3, pp. 938-945.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on April 12, 2005; DOI 10.1182/blood-2004-12-4787.

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Identification and characterization of epitopes of the receptor for hyaluronic acid–mediated motility (RHAMM/CD168) recognized by CD8+ T cells of HLA-A2–positive patients with acute myeloid leukemia

Jochen Greiner, Li Li, Mark Ringhoffer, Thomas F. E. Barth, Krzysztof Giannopoulos, Phillipe Guillaume, Gerd Ritter, Markus Wiesneth, Hartmut Döhner, and Michael Schmitt

From the Third Department of Internal Medicine and Institute for Pathology, University of Ulm, Germany; Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR), Lausanne Branch, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland; LICR New York Branch, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY; and Institute for Immunogenetics and Clinical Transfusion Medicine, German Red Cross, Ulm, Germany.

The receptor for hyaluronic acid–mediated motility (RHAMM/CD168) has been described as a leukemia-associated antigen. To define T-cell epitopes of RHAMM/CD168 toward specific immunotherapies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), 10 potential HLA-A2–binding RHAMM/CD168 peptides (R1 to R10) were synthesized based on computer algorithms and screened by enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) analysis using CD8+ T cells isolated from peripheral blood (PB) of patients with AML and healthy donors. We found that CD8+ cells from 7 of 13 (54%) patients with AML presensitized with peptides R3 (ILSLELMKL) or R5 (SLEENIVIL) specifically recognized T2 cells pulsed with R3 (39%) or R5 (15%) peptide. In contrast, only 4 of 21 (19%) healthy volunteers had CD8+ cells reactive with R3- or R5-pulsed T2 cells after presensitization. The presence of R3 peptide–specific effector T cells in the peripheral blood of patients with AML could be confirmed by staining as HLA-A2/R3 peptide tetramer+ CCR7-CD45RA+ cells. In chromium-51 release assays, peptide-primed CD8+ T cells from patients with AML were able to lyse RHAMM/CD168 peptide–pulsed T2 cells, AML blasts, and dendritic cells generated thereof (AML DCs). Transfection of COS7 cells with RHAMM/CD168 cDNA revealed that peptides R3 and R5 are naturally processed epitopes of RHAMM/CD168 that are presented in an HLA-A2–restricted manner. In summary, RHAMM/CD168 is a promising target for immunotherapies in patients with AML, and we have therefore initiated a clinical vaccination trial with R3 peptide. Because RHAMM/CD168 is also expressed in various other hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, vaccines targeting this antigen may have even wider application.


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