Kwok Darwin W, Stevers Nicholas O, Etxeberria Iñaki, Nejo Takahide, Colton Cove Maggie, Chen Lee H, Jung Jangham, Okada Kaori, Lakshmanachetty Senthilnath, Gallus Marco, Barpanda Abhilash, Hong Chibo, Chan Gary K L, Liu Jerry, Wu Samuel H, Ramos Emilio, Yamamichi Akane, Watchmaker Payal B, Ogino Hirokazu, Saijo Atsuro, Du Aidan, Grishanina Nadia R, Woo James, Diaz Aaron, Hervey-Jumper Shawn L, Chang Susan M, Phillips Joanna J, Wiita Arun P, Klebanoff Christopher A, Costello Joseph F, Okada Hideho
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Nature. 2025 Mar;639(8054):463-473. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08552-0. Epub 2025 Feb 19.
T cell-based immunotherapies hold promise in treating cancer by leveraging the immune system's recognition of cancer-specific antigens. However, their efficacy is limited in tumours with few somatic mutations and substantial intratumoural heterogeneity. Here we introduce a previously uncharacterized class of tumour-wide public neoantigens originating from RNA splicing aberrations in diverse cancer types. We identified T cell receptor clones capable of recognizing and targeting neoantigens derived from aberrant splicing in GNAS and RPL22. In cases with multi-site biopsies, we detected the tumour-wide expression of the GNAS neojunction in glioma, mesothelioma, prostate cancer and liver cancer. These neoantigens are endogenously generated and presented by tumour cells under physiologic conditions and are sufficient to trigger cancer cell eradication by neoantigen-specific CD8 T cells. Moreover, our study highlights a role for dysregulated splicing factor expression in specific cancer types, leading to recurrent patterns of neojunction upregulation. These findings establish a molecular basis for T cell-based immunotherapies addressing the challenges of intratumoural heterogeneity.
基于T细胞的免疫疗法有望通过利用免疫系统对癌症特异性抗原的识别来治疗癌症。然而,在体细胞突变少且肿瘤内异质性大的肿瘤中,其疗效有限。在此,我们介绍了一类以前未被描述的全肿瘤共有新抗原,它们源自多种癌症类型中的RNA剪接异常。我们鉴定出了能够识别和靶向源自GNAS和RPL22异常剪接的新抗原的T细胞受体克隆。在进行多点活检的病例中,我们在神经胶质瘤、间皮瘤、前列腺癌和肝癌中检测到了GNAS新连接在全肿瘤中的表达。这些新抗原在生理条件下由肿瘤细胞内源性产生并呈递,足以触发新抗原特异性CD8 T细胞对癌细胞的清除。此外,我们的研究突出了特定癌症类型中剪接因子表达失调的作用,导致新连接上调的反复出现模式。这些发现为基于T细胞的免疫疗法应对肿瘤内异质性挑战奠定了分子基础。
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