IFNG and hepatocellular carcinoma: To confirm the T-cell responses in patients with HCC, we used CD8+ T-cell peptide epitopes derived from both the BMI-1 and EZH2 proteins predicted to bind to HLA-A0201, HLA-B2702/05 and HLA-B4402/03 molecules (Table 1) in ELISPOT assays of IFN-γ release.