NY-ESO-1 (CTAG1B) Expression in Mesenchymal Tumors
Modern Pathology (2015) 28, 587–595 & 2015 USCAP, Inc. All rights reserved 0893-3952/15 $32.00 587 NY-ESO-1 (CTAG1B) expression in mesenchymal tumors Makoto Endo1,2,7, Marieke A de Graaff3,7, Davis R Ingram4, Simin Lim1, Dina C Lev4, Inge H Briaire-de Bruijn3, Neeta Somaiah5, Judith VMG Bove´e3, Alexander J Lazar6 and Torsten O Nielsen1 1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 2Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; 3Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; 4Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; 5Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA and 6Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA New York esophageal squamous cell carcinoma 1 (NY-ESO-1, CTAG1B) is a cancer-testis antigen and currently a focus of several targeted immunotherapeutic strategies. We performed a large-scale immunohistochemical expression study of NY-ESO-1 using tissue microarrays of mesenchymal tumors from three institutions in an international collaboration. A total of 1132 intermediate and malignant and 175 benign mesenchymal lesions were enrolled in this study. Immunohistochemical staining was performed on tissue microarrays using a monoclonal antibody for NY-ESO-1. Among mesenchymal tumors, myxoid liposarcomas showed the highest positivity for NY-ESO-1 (88%), followed by synovial sarcomas (49%), myxofibrosarcomas (35%), and conventional chondrosarcomas (28%). Positivity of NY-ESO-1 in the remaining mesenchymal tumors was consistently low, and no immunoreactivity was observed in benign mesenchymal lesions.
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