Figure 4.
Detection of Bcl-2–specific CTLs by granzyme B ELISPOT. T lymphocytes from 4 different late-stage patients with breast cancer (b19, b20, b22, b16) and a healthy control (h1) were stimulated once with peptide before being plated at 105 cells per well in triplicates either without or with peptide Bcl208 (A) or Bcl214 (B). The average number of peptide-specific granzyme B spots (after subtraction of spots without added peptide) was calculated for each patient using the ImmunoSpot Series 2.0 Analyzer (CTL Analyzers). Responders (defined as average number of antigen-specific spots ± 1/2 standard deviation > 25 per 105 lymphocytes) are marked as , whereas nonresponding individuals are marked as ⋄.