Quandt Jasmin, Schlude Christoph, Bartoschek Michael, Will Rainer, Cid-Arregui Angel, Schölch Sebastian, Reissfelder Christoph, Weitz Jürgen, Schneider Martin, Wiemann Stefan, Momburg Frank, Beckhove Philipp
Department of Translational Immunology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany.
Knapp Research Center, Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Oncoimmunology. 2018 Sep 21;7(12):e1500671. doi: 10.1080/2162402X.2018.1500671. eCollection 2018.
Mutated proteins arising from somatic mutations in tumors are promising targets for cancer immunotherapy. They represent true tumor-specific antigens (TSAs) as they are exclusively expressed in tumors, reduce the risk of autoimmunity and are more likely to overcome tolerance compared to wild-type (wt) sequences. Hence, we designed a panel of long peptides (LPs, 28-35 aa) comprising driver gene mutations in and frequently found in gastrointestinal tumors to test their combined immunotherapeutic potential. We found increased numbers of T cells responsive against respective mutated and wt peptides in colorectal cancer patients that carry the tested mutations in their tumors than patients with other mutations. Further, active immunization of HLA(-A2/DR1)-humanized mice with mixes of the same mutated LPs yielded simultaneous, polyvalent CD8/CD4 T cell responses against the majority of peptides. Peptide-specific T cells possessed a multifunctional cytokine profile with CD4 T cells showing a T1-like phenotype. Two mutated peptides (Kras[G12V], p53[R248W]) induced significantly higher T cell responses than corresponding wt sequences and comprised HLA-A2/DR1-restricted mutated epitopes. However, vaccination with the same highly immunogenic LPs strongly increased systemic regulatory T cells (T) numbers in a syngeneic sarcoma model over-expressing these mutated protein variants and resulted in accelerated tumor outgrowth. In contrast, tumor outgrowth was delayed when vaccination was directed against tumor-intrinsic / mutations of lower immunogenicity. Conclusively, we show that LP vaccination targeting multiple mutated TSAs elicits polyvalent, multifunctional, and mutation-specific effector T cells capable of targeting tumors. However, the success of this therapeutic approach can be hampered by vaccination-induced, TSA-specific Ts.
肿瘤体细胞突变产生的突变蛋白是癌症免疫治疗的有前景的靶点。它们代表真正的肿瘤特异性抗原(TSA),因为它们仅在肿瘤中表达,降低了自身免疫的风险,并且与野生型(wt)序列相比更有可能克服免疫耐受。因此,我们设计了一组长肽(LPs,28 - 35个氨基酸),其包含在胃肠道肿瘤中经常发现的驱动基因突变,以测试它们的联合免疫治疗潜力。我们发现,与携带其他突变的患者相比,肿瘤中携带测试突变的结直肠癌患者中,对相应突变和wt肽有反应的T细胞数量增加。此外,用相同突变LPs混合物对HLA(-A2/DR1)人源化小鼠进行主动免疫,可产生针对大多数肽的同时多价CD8/CD4 T细胞反应。肽特异性T细胞具有多功能细胞因子谱,CD4 T细胞表现出T1样表型。两种突变肽(Kras[G12V],p53[R248W])诱导的T细胞反应明显高于相应的wt序列,并包含HLA - A2/DR1限制的突变表位。然而,在过表达这些突变蛋白变体的同基因肉瘤模型中用相同的高免疫原性LPs进行疫苗接种,会强烈增加全身调节性T细胞(T)的数量,并导致肿瘤生长加速。相比之下,当针对肿瘤内在的免疫原性较低的/突变进行疫苗接种时,肿瘤生长会延迟。总之,我们表明,靶向多个突变TSA的LP疫苗接种可引发能够靶向肿瘤的多价、多功能和突变特异性效应T细胞。然而,这种治疗方法的成功可能会受到疫苗接种诱导的TSA特异性Ts的阻碍。
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