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The Journal of Immunology, 1999, 162: 2227-2234.
Copyright © 1999 by The American Association of Immunologists

Isolation of High Avidity Melanoma-Reactive CTL from Heterogeneous Populations Using Peptide-MHC Tetramers1

Cassian Yee2,*, Peter A. Savage{dagger}, Peter P. Lee{dagger}, Mark M. Davis{dagger},{ddagger} and Philip D. Greenberg*

* Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Departments of Medicine and Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109; {dagger} The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305; and {ddagger} Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305

Immunogenic peptides of human tumor Ag have been used to generate antigen-specific CTL. However, the vast majority of these peptide-specific CTL clones are of low avidity and are peptide, but not tumor, reactive. Peptide-MHC tetramers have been shown to bind specific TCRs with sufficient affinity to be useful reagents for flow cytometry. In this paper we demonstrate that peptide-MHC tetramers can also be used to selectively identify high avidity tumor-reactive CTL and enrich, from a heterogeneous population, the subpopulation of peptide-reactive T cells that can lyse tumor targets. The melanoma proteins, MART-1 and gp100, were used to induce potentially tumor-reactive T cells, and the intensity of T cell staining by TCR binding of specific peptide-MHC tetramers was assessed. A range of fluorescence intensity was detected, and the magnitude of tetramer binding was correlated with T cell avidity. The population of peptide-reactive T cells was phenotypically similar with regard to expression of TCR and adhesion molecules, suggesting that this differential avidity for tumor cells reflected differential affinity of the TCR for its peptide-MHC ligand. Sorting, cloning, and expansion of tetramerhigh CTL from a heterogeneous population of peptide-stimulated PBMCs enabled rapid selection of high avidity tumor-reactive CTL clones, which retained their functional and tetramerhigh phenotype on re-expansion. These results demonstrate that the avidity of a T cell for its tumor target is due to the specific affinity of the TCR for its peptide-MHC ligand, that this interaction can be described using peptide-MHC tetramers and used to isolate high avidity tumor-reactive CTL.




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