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Perspectives of T Cells in Tumor Immunology

¹ Institute of Immunology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany and ² Department of Immunology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, P.R. China

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Subsets of human T cells recognize tumor cell–expressed ligands that are not seen by the T-cell receptor of conventional ß T cells. V1 T cells recognize MHC class I chain–related molecules A and B and UL-16–binding proteins expressed at variable levels on epithelial tumor cells and some leukemias and lymphomas. In addition, therapeutically used aminobisphosphonates and synthetic phosphoantigens activate V2 T cells, the dominant subset of T cells in human peripheral blood that display strong cytotoxicity towards various epithelial tumors. Intentional activation of T cells in vivo and/or adoptive cell therapy with in vitro expanded T cells holds considerable promise as a novel immunotherapy in certain types of cancer. [Cancer Res 2007;67(1):5–8]

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