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ArticleThe Journal of experimental medicine2016

Preventing tumor escape by targeting a post-proteasomal trimming independent epitope.

Ana Textor, Karin Schmidt, Peter-M Kloetzel, Bianca Weißbrich, Cynthia Perez, Jehad Charo, Kathleen Anders, John Sidney, Alessandro Sette, Ton N M Schumacher and 4 more

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Article in The Journal of experimental medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Targeting Merkel Cell Carcinoma by Engineered T Cells Specific to T-Antigens of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2018
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  9. An Isolated TCR αβ Restricted by HLA-A*02:01/CT37 Peptide Redirecting CD8Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Ana TextorMax-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Karin SchmidtMax-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Peter-M KloetzelInstitute for Biochemistry, Charité, Campus Mitte, 10117 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6443-4911
Bianca WeißbrichInstitute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technical University, 81675 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1182-4235
Cynthia PerezMax-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2260-5428
Jehad CharoMax-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Kathleen AndersMax-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
John SidneyLa Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Alessandro SetteLa Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Ton N M SchumacherThe Division of Immunology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, 1066 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0517-8804
Christin KellerInstitute for Biochemistry, Charité, Campus Mitte, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Dirk H BuschInstitute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technical University, 81675 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8713-093X
Ulrike SeifertInstitute for Biochemistry, Charité, Campus Mitte, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Thomas BlankensteinMax-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany tblanke@mdc-berlin.de.
Max Delbrück Center · DEInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene · DELa Jolla Institute for Immunology · USBerlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DECharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEFriedrich-Loeffler-Institut · DEThe Netherlands Cancer Institute · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adoptive T cell therapy (ATT) can achieve regression of large tumors in mice and humans; however, tumors frequently recur. High target peptide-major histocompatibility complex-I (pMHC) affinity and T cell receptor (TCR)-pMHC affinity are thought to be critical to preventing relapse. Here, we show that targeting two epitopes of the same antigen in the same cancer cells via monospecific T cells, which have similar pMHC and pMHC-TCR affinity, results in eradication of large, established tumors when targeting the apparently subdominant but not the dominant epitope. Only the escape but not the rejection epitope required postproteasomal trimming, which was regulated by IFN-γ, allowing IFN-γ-unresponsive cancer variants to evade. The data describe a novel immune escape mechanism and better define suitable target epitopes for ATT.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsAntibody AffinityAntigensEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHistocompatibility Antigens Class IInterferon-gammaLeucyl AminopeptidaseMice, Inbred C57BLNeoplasmsPeptidesProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexReceptors, Antigen, T-CellSignal TransductionT-LymphocytesTumor EscapeAntigensEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHistocompatibility Antigens Class IInterferon-gammaLeucyl AminopeptidasePeptidesProteasome Endopeptidase Complexpuromycin-insensitive leucyl-specific aminopeptidaseReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

Identifiers

PMID27697836
PMCPMC5068242
OpenAlexW2527851534

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