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The transfection of murine SP1 tumor cells with the hemagglutinin (HA) gene of influenza virus results, after fluorescent-activated cell sorting (FACS), in the selection of high-HA-expressing cell lines called H4A and H4B. Both lines fail to grow in syngeneic animals at doses that result in 100% tumor take of non-transfected tumor cells. Both grow in immunosuppressed mice. SP1 and H4A or H4B cells express few class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens but do express class II IAk antigens. H4A or H4B cells engender a cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response but cannot protect against a challenge with SP1 cells. This CTL response is inhibited by anti-CD4 but not anti-CD8 antibodies. Using FACS, we were able to select a population (called H5AK5) with high class-I MHC antigen expression. Like H4A and H4B, H5AK5 cells fail to grow in syngeneic animals but do grow in immunosuppressed mice. However, unlike H4A or H4B, H5AK5 can induce protection against a challenge with 1 × 105 SP1 cells. These studies indicate that the immunogenicity ofHA-transfected SP1 cells may correlate with the cell-surface expression of class II MHC antigens. However, HA-expressing SP1 cells seem able to induce a protective response against a parent SP1 cell challenge only if they also express class I MHC antigens. This view is supported by the observations that SP1 cells expressing murine interleukin-2 do not express class I MHC antigens, fail to grow in syngeneic animals, do grow in immunosuppressed mice but do not protect against a challenge with parental SP1 cells.
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This work was supported by The Clayton Fund, The Sid W. Richardson Foundation and PHS grants CA 39853 and 41525. Toshiyuki Itaya is a visiting scientist supported by the Smith Education Fund of the Department of Cell Biology. Troy Fiesinger is a summer research investigator sponsored by The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Summer Program for College Students
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Itaya, T., Fearon, E., Fiesinger, T. et al. Immunogenicity of a non-class I MHC expressing murine tumor transfected with the influenza virus hemagglutinin or murine interleukin-2 genes. Cancer Immunol Immunother 33, 267–273 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01744947
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