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Blood, 1 July 2005, Vol. 106, No. 1, pp. 167-174. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on March 10, 2005; DOI 10.1182/blood-2004-12-4931. This Article Full Text (PDF) All Versions of this Article: 2004-12-4931v1 106/1/167    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted 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 Jungbluth, A. A Articles by Cho, H. J Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Jungbluth, A. A Articles by Cho, H. J Related Collections Related Article in Blood Online Social Bookmarking                   What's this?  Previous Article  |  Next Article  Submitted December 29, 2004 Accepted February 22, 2005 The Cancer-Testis antigens CT7 (MAGE-C1) and MAGE-A3/6 are commonly expressed in multiple myeloma and correlate with plasma cell proliferation Achim A Jungbluth, Scott Ely, Maurizio DiLiberto, Ruben Niesvizky, Barbara Williamson, Denise Frosina, Yao-Tseng Chen, Nina Bhardwaj, Selina Chen-Kiang, Lloyd J Old, and Hearn J Cho* New York Branch, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, New York, NY, USA Department of Pathology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA Division of Hematology/ Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA The New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA Department of Pathology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA; Graduate Program in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY, USA Division of Hematology/ Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA; Graduate Program in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY, USA * Corresponding author; email: hjc2001{at}med.cornell.edu. Multiple myeloma is a malignancy of plasma cells. Vaccine immunotherapy is among the novel therapeutic strategies under investigation for this disease. To identify myeloma-associated antigens as potential targets for vaccine immunotherapy, we surveyed a comprehensive panel of bone marrow specimens from patients with Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS) and multiple myeloma for expression of Cancer-Testis (CT) antigens. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) demonstrated that 82% of stage III myeloma specimens expressed the CT antigen CT7 (also known as MAGE-C1), and 70% expressed MAGE-A3/6. Messenger RNA for CT7 and MAGE-A family members was detected in 87% and 100% of stage III samples, respectively. CT7 protein expression increased with advanced stage of disease. Higher levels of CT7 and MAGE-A3/6 proteins also correlated with elevated plasma cell proliferation. 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