SEREX技术筛选及鉴定食管癌肿瘤抗原

Human Esophageal Carcinoma Antigens Screened by Serologic Analysis of Recombinant cDNA Expression Libraries(SEREX)

背景与目的:正常细胞向癌细胞转化过程中,突变的基因或各种异常表达的蛋白可以成为肿瘤抗原诱导机体的免疫反应,因此肿瘤患者的血清中存在着与肿瘤相关的自身抗体。重组cDNA表达文库血清学分析法(serologicalanalysisofrecombinantcDNAexpressionlibraries,SEREX)是利用肿瘤患者血清中的自身抗体筛选、鉴定肿瘤抗原的技术。本研究拟采用SEREX的方法寻找食管癌自身抗体的相关肿瘤抗原,鉴定与食管癌发生、发展相关的基因和免疫治疗分子靶点,并为食管癌的诊断提供候选血清标志物。方法:用食管癌组织建立库容量达1.6×106pfu的cDNA表达文库,SEREX筛选获得21个不同cDNA序列的阳性克隆,进一步使用SADA法分析其中4个抗原在10例食管癌及10例正常人血清中的反应。结果:在Homosapiensdesmin(DES)等21个阳性克隆中,4个克隆与已知EST序列明显无同源性,另外17个克隆与已知基因高度同源。RibosomalproteinS4等4个抗原与食管癌患者和正常人血清反应阳性率分别为40%和0%、60%和10%、70%和20%、30%和20%。结论:RibosomalproteinS4等4个抗原普遍参与了食管癌患者的体液免疫反应,与食管癌患者血清的反应阳性率明显高于正常人的血清。本研究发现的21个食管癌抗原可作为食管癌治疗的潜在分子靶点和食管癌诊断新的候选血清学标志物。

BACKGROUND ＆ OBJECTIVE： In malignant transformation, mutant gene products and dysregulated proteins can become tumor antigens and activate immunoreactions. Therefore, auto-antibodies exist in sera of cancer patients. Serologic analysis of recombinant cDNA expression libraries （SEREX） using autologous and allogenic patient sera provides a powerful approach to identify tumor antigens. This study was to identify esophageal cancer antigens with SEREX for serologic diagnosis, gene therapy, and immune therapy. METHODS= Expression library of cDNA from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma was constructed. SERE）（ screened out 21 positive clones from the 1.6×10^6 clones in the established library. The 21 positive clones were subcloned to monoclonality and submitted to in vivo excision of pBluescript phagemids. The nucleotide sequences of cDNA inserts were analyzed with DNASIS and BLAST software on EMBL and GenBank. According to the bioinformatics analyses, serologic immunoreactions of 4 colons in 10 samples of esophageal cancer serum and 10 samples of normal control serum were further detected by SADA. RESULTS： Of the 21 positive clones, 4 had no homology to any known genes, 17 were known fragments which were defined as antigens of esophageal cancer for the first time. The serologic immunoreaction rates of 4 selected antigens, including Ribosomal protein S4, and so on, were 40%, 60%, 70%, and 30%, respectively, in cancer sera, and 0%, 10%, 20%, and 20%, respectively, in normal sera. CONCLUSIONS： Antigens, such as Ribosomal protein S4, are frequently involved in serologic immunoreactions of esophageal cancer. The 21 antigens identified by the present study can be used as potential targets for gene therapy and serologic biomarkers of esophageal cancer.