Bilineal differentiated liver carcinoma cells generates highly aggressive escape variants

Background & Aims: Combined HCC/iCCA is a rare liver tumor type. We generated a transgenic mouse model (AlfpCre+-Trp53fl/fl/Alb-HBs+ tg mouse) which developed next to HCC combined HCC/iCCA (cHCC/iCCA). We compared bilineal differentiated liver carcinoma cell lines generated from primary liver tumors of AlfpCre+-Trp53fl/fl/Alb-HBs+ tg mice and transplanted them into C57BL/6J mice to monitor there agressiveness. We compared the geneexpression profile from those primary liver carcinoma cell lines with IFNγ treatment (pCCL-IFNγ) and without treatment (pCCL) with explanted primary carcinoma cell line (pCCL-ex). Results: Here we describe that elimination of HBs+ in pCCL by HBs/(Kb/S190-197)-specific CD8 T cells describes a potential immune escape mechanism for highly aggressive cHCC/iCCA-type liver carcinomas. Total RNA was isolated from murine whole carcinoma cell lines, and the quality was analyzed by a bioanalyzer. Agilent Mouse Gene Expression Microarrays 8x60K were used.