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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Targeting CD8(+) T cells to recurrent tumor-specific mutations can profoundly contribute to cancer treatment. Some of these mutations are potential tumor antigens although they can be displayed by non-spliced epitopes only in a few patients, because of the low affinity of the mutated non-spliced peptides for the predominant HLA class I alleles. Here, we describe a pipeline that uses the large sequence variety of proteasome-generated spliced peptides and identifies spliced epitope candidates, which carry the mutations and bind the predominant HLA-I alleles with high affinity. They could be used in adoptive T cell therapy and other anti-cancer immunotherapies for large cohorts of cancer patients. As a proof of principle, the application of this pipeline led to the identification of a KRAS G12V mutation-carrying spliced epitope candidate, which is produced by proteasomes, transported by TAPs and efficiently presented by the most prevalent HLA class I molecules, HLA-A(*)02:01 complexes.

An in silico-in vitro Pipeline Identifying an HLA-A(*)02:01(+) KRAS G12V(+) Spliced Epitope Candidate for a Broad Tumor-Immune Response in Cancer Patients.,Mishto M, Mansurkhodzhaev A, Ying G, Bitra A, Cordfunke RA, Henze S, Paul D, Sidney J, Urlaub H, Neefjes J, Sette A, Zajonc DM, Liepe J Front Immunol. 2019 Nov 15;10:2572. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02572. eCollection , 2019. PMID:31803176^[1]

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