A panel of sarcomas induced with 3-methylcholanthrene in normal and immunodeficient mice was studied for their capacity to present antigen by the endogenous, MHC class I restricted pathway. Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus was used to infect cultured tumour cells, and the infected cells were tested for susceptibility to cytolysis by virus specific cytotoxic T cells. Tumour cells originating from tumours induced in immunocompetent C.B.-17 mice presented virus antigen more efficiently than tumour cells from immunodeficient SCID mice. No significant difference in virus antigen presentation was found between tumours from nude and nu/+ BALB/c mice. The sensitivity of target cells from the individual tumours to cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) mediated lysis correlated negatively with their sensitivity to natural killer (NK) cell mediated lysis. There was a positive correlation between the sensitivity to CTL mediated lysis and surface expression of the MHC class I molecule L(d) of the tumour cells. Tumour cells incapable of in vivo presentation of viral antigen to specific cytotoxic T cells originated from tumours known from previous experiments to be readily accepted after transplantation to immunocompetent, histocompatible recipients.
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Svane, I. M., Engel, A. M., Thomsen, A. R., & Werdelin, O. (1997). The susceptibility to cytotoxic T lymphocyte mediated lysis of chemically induced sarcomas from immunodeficient and normal mice. Scandinavian Journal of Immunology, 45(1), 28–35. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3083.1997.d01-369.x
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