Zhou Yang, Li Xinru, Guo Yajing, Wu Ye, Yin Lixin, Tu Luyun, Hong Sheng, Cai Hui, Ding Feiqing
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Shenzhen) Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-Sen University Shenzhen China.
MedComm (2020). 2024 Feb 9;5(2):e484. doi: 10.1002/mco2.484. eCollection 2024 Feb.
The tumor-associated glycoprotein Mucin 1 (MUC1) is aberrantly glycosylated on cancer cells and is considered a promising target for antitumor vaccines. The weak immunogenicity and low sequence homology of mouse mucins and human MUC1 are the main obstacles for the development of vaccines. Herein, a self-adjuvanted strategy combining toll-like receptor 2 lipopeptide ligands and T-cell epitopes and the multivalent effect were used to amplify the immune response and evade the unpredictable immunogenicity, generating two self-adjuvanted three-component MUC1 vaccines (mono- and trivalent MUC1 vaccines). To simulate the aberrantly glycosylated MUC1 glycoprotein, the MUC1 tandem repeat peptide was bounded with Tn antigens at T9, S15, and T16, and served as B-cell epitopes. Results showed that both vaccines elicited a robust antibody response in wild-type mice compared with a weaker response in MUC1 transgenic mice. The trivalent vaccine did not elevate the antibody response level compared with the monovalent vaccine; however, a more delayed tumor growth and prolonged survival time was realized in wild-type and transgenic mouse models treated with the trivalent vaccine. These results indicate that the self-adjuvanted three-component MUC1 vaccines, especially the trivalent vaccine, can trigger robust antitumor effects regardless of sequence homology, and, therefore, show promise for clinical translation.
肿瘤相关糖蛋白黏蛋白1(MUC1)在癌细胞上存在异常糖基化,被认为是抗肿瘤疫苗的一个有前景的靶点。小鼠黏蛋白与人MUC1的弱免疫原性和低序列同源性是疫苗开发的主要障碍。在此,采用一种将Toll样受体2脂肽配体与T细胞表位相结合的自佐剂策略以及多价效应来增强免疫反应并规避不可预测的免疫原性,从而制备出两种自佐剂三元MUC1疫苗(单价和三价MUC1疫苗)。为模拟异常糖基化的MUC1糖蛋白,MUC1串联重复肽在T9、S15和T16位点与Tn抗原结合,作为B细胞表位。结果显示,与MUC1转基因小鼠中较弱的反应相比,两种疫苗在野生型小鼠中均引发了强烈的抗体反应。与单价疫苗相比,三价疫苗并未提高抗体反应水平;然而,在接受三价疫苗治疗的野生型和转基因小鼠模型中,肿瘤生长延迟且生存时间延长。这些结果表明,自佐剂三元MUC1疫苗,尤其是三价疫苗,无论序列同源性如何,均可引发强大的抗肿瘤效应,因此具有临床转化的潜力。