Shave biopsy and immunohistochemical studies revealed that the tumor was composed of malignant melanoma (MM) (highlighted by S100 and MART-1) intermixed with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) (highlighted by cytokeratin and p63), and a diagnosis of combined MM-SCC was rendered.
We present a 59-year-old woman with profound subacute bilateral SNHL including unilateral deafness after immunotherapy based on TCR gene therapy using modified T cells recognizing melanoma antigen recognized by T cells 1 for disseminated melanoma.
Although immunohistochemical (IHC) stains such as HMB45, Melan A, and S-100 are often utilized; the role of Sry-related HMG-box gene 10 (SOX10) in the diagnosis of melanoma in effusions has not been previously reported.
Importantly, subcutaneous immunization of C57BL/6J mice with DCs ex vivo transfected with an electrostatic complex of AuNPs-SL & melanoma antigen (MART1) encoded DNA vaccine (p-CMV-MART1) induced a long lasting (100 days) anti-tumor immune response in immunized mice upon subsequent challenge with a lethal dose of melanoma.
We developed a clinical grade procedure for the selection and amplification of polyclonal CD8 T cells, specific for two shared and widely expressed melanoma antigens: Melan-A and MELOE-1.
We demonstrate using human melanoma cell lines that this resistance phenotype can be induced <i>in vitro</i> by treatment with MART1 T cell receptor-expressing T cells or with TNFα, and that the phenotype is reversible with withdrawal of inflammatory stimuli.
One paraffin-embedded section of the patients' primary melanoma (n = 60), relapse (n = 21), and naevus (n = 17) were immunohistochemically double-stained for Ki-67/MART1 and single-stained for CD271, CD166, and CD20.
A dural biopsy was done which showed sheets of poorly differentiated tumor cells which expressed S100 and Melan A and were immunoreactive with Human Melanoma Black (HMB)-45 antibody, consistent with the diagnosis of malignant melanoma.
These results show that SOX10 is more specific than MART-1 in distinguishing epidermal melanocytes on sun-damaged skin by avoiding overdiagnosis of melanoma.
Patients with melanoma who enrolled in the F5-MART-1 clinical trial (NCT00910650) received infusions of MART-1 T-cell receptors transgenic T cells with MART-1 peptide-pulsed dendritic cell vaccination.
In this paper, we propose a technique for measuring melanoma DoI in microscopic images digitized from MART1 (i.e., meleanoma-associated antigen recognized by T cells) stained skin histopathological sections.The technique consists of four modules.
We used a retrospective, cross-sectional study of 674 consecutive in situ melanomas to examine 627 patients treated with Mohs surgery and melanoma antigen recognized by T cells 1 immunostaining.
MART1, a human melanoma-specific tumor antigen, was used to induce an increased immune reaction, since a MART1-protective response is required to overcome immune tolerance to the melanoma antigen MelanA.
NFATc2(+/Hi) melanoma cell lines were CD271(+) and deficient for expression of melanocyte differentiation antigens (MDAs) MART-1, gp100, tyrosinase and of GPNMB, PGC1-α and Rab27a, all regulated by MITF.
HLA-A2-restricted TCR-transduced (TD) CIK directed against the melanoma antigens Mart1 and NY-ESO1 were generated by lentiviral transduction and successfully expanded over a 3-4-week period.
Similarly, impressive clinical responses were seen in melanoma and synovial cell carcinoma with TCR-modified T cells redirected against the melanocyte lineage antigen MART-1 and the testis-cancer antigen NY-ESO-1.
Melanoma antigen recognized by T-cells (MART-1) has been studied extensively as a clinically important diagnostic marker for melanoma, however, its biological function remains unclear.