... prevent the relapse of ATL inpostallogeneic stem cell transplantation patients.The expression of Tax by the host cell targets themfor attack by CTL, resulting in the elimination of theinfected ... unpulsed T2 -A2 cells as target cells,specific cytotoxic activity was evaluated by FCM assay of cell- mediated cytotoxicity. All tests were carried out in triplicate at effector : targetratios of ... [34,35]. The CD8 cell- dependent CTLs alsoappear to directly target the Tax protein because whenthe histone deacetylase inhibitor, valproate, is used toactivate tax transcription, the HTLV-1 proviral...