Article: Researchers from University of Wurzburg provide details of new studies and findings in the area of melanoma.

"Survivin is overexpressed in several malignancies and in tumor-associated endothelium making it an attractive target for therapeutic cytotoxic T-cell responses. Thus, it would be important to test this notion in preclinical models," researchers in Wurzburg, Germany report (see also Melanoma).

"Consequently, we screened the murine survivin sequence for potential binding K-b-restricted octamer peptide epitopes. Two epitopes, which bind strongly to K-b, were selected to test their immunogenicity in vivo. Spleen cells from mice vaccinated by intradermal injection of mature DC pulsed with these peptides displayed reactivity to the respective epitopes. The natural ...

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