MHC class I trafficking signal improves induction of cytotoxic T lymphocyte using artificial antigen presenting cells.

ABSTRACT: Inducing antigen peptide-specific cytotoxic T cells is challenging, partly due to the difficulty of maintaining the quality of antigen-presenting cells, such as dendritic cells. Consequently, artificial antigen-presenting cells (aAPCs) derived from the erythroleukemia cell line K562 have been employed for T cell stimulation. K562-based aAPCs can be utilized for both non-specific and antigen-specific T cell stimulation. Antigen peptide-pulsed aAPCs are commonly used to stimulate T cells with known specific antigenic peptides, which require identifying antigenic peptides from cognate antigen proteins. Therefore, antigen gene-overexpressing aAPCs might be useful for detecting unknown antigenic peptides. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) induction using a

SUBMITTER: Sasaki K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11880709 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature