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Blood, 1 July 2007, Vol. 110, No. 1, pp. 201-210. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on March 19, 2007; DOI 10.1182/blood-2006-11-056168. This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) All Versions of this Article: blood-2006-11-056168v1 110/1/201    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Rights and Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Wolfl, M. Articles by Greenberg, P. D. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Wolfl, M. Articles by Greenberg, P. D. 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Although undetectable on unstimulated CD8+ T cells, it is uniformly up-regulated 24 hours after stimulation on virtually all responding cells regardless of differentiation stage or profile of cytokine secretion, which circumvents limitations of current surrogate markers for defining the repertoire of responding cells based on only individual functions. Antibody-labeled responding CD137+ cells can be easily and efficiently isolated by flow sorting or magnetic beads to substantially enrich antigen-specific T cells. To test this approach for epitope discovery, we examined in vitro priming of naive T cells from healthy donors to Wilms tumor antigen 1 (WT1), a protein overexpressed in various malignancies. Two overlapping pentadecamers were identified as immunogenic, and further analysis defined WT1(286–293) as the minimal amino acid sequence and HLA-Cw07 as the HLA restriction element. 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