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HPLC
fingerprinting of natural peptide reactivity of the CTL lines.
Total MHC class I-bound peptides were isolated from approximately
109 PCI-13 (filled bars) or PCI-1 (open bars) tumor
cells and separated individually on RP-HPLC as described in Materials
and Methods. T2 cells (expressing only the HLA-A2 class I allele)
were pulsed with peptides from individual HPLC fractions and analyzed
for their ability to promote IFN-gamma secretion from CD8+ CTLs
(CTL-DC#1 or CTL-DC#2) in 20 h ELISPOT assays. The assays were
performed in triplicate and spots were counted using a Zeiss autoimager.
The data are reported as the mean ± SD for one representative
analysis of 3 independent assays performed.
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