Cancer-testis antigen ACRBP: Cytotoxic response to its HLA-A2 restricted peptide and immune features in ovarian cancer

Xia Zeng & Xiao-Xun Xie et al. · 2025-10-16

While our prior study identified the HLA-A *0201-restricted ACRBP epitope peptide and demonstrated its capacity to generate cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) in vitro, the clinical relevance of the peptide-induced T cell reactivity in ovarian cancer (OC) patients and the in vivo anti-tumor efficacy of these CTLs remain unexplored. In this study, dendritic cells were sensitized with ACRBP peptide (ALLVLCYSI) and co-cultured with autologous CD8