Molecular rescue of tumour-specific T cell receptor idiotype from T cell lymphomas |
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Authors: | Reddy Sunil A Levy Ronald |
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Affiliation: | Division of Medical Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5306, USA. |
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Abstract: | The T cell receptor (TCR) idiotype on T cell lymphomas can serve as a vaccine target. To clone the relevant genes, 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) was performed on 13 T cell lymphomas and nine control samples. Two polymerase chain reactions (PCR) were performed for each TCR chain (alpha and beta) and the proportion of the clonal TCR sequence over the total number of TCR sequences was calculated. For alpha, the average proportions were 0.43 vs. 0.05. For beta these were 0.44 and 0.04. The TCR was identified in 10 of 13 lymphoma samples. |
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Keywords: | idiotype T cell receptor rapid amplification of cDNA ends T cell lymphomas vaccines |
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