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ArticleCell reports. Medicine2024

DNAJB1-PRKACA fusion neoantigens elicit rare endogenous T cell responses that potentiate cell therapy for fibrolamellar carcinoma.

Allison M Kirk, Jeremy Chase Crawford, Ching-Heng Chou, Cliff Guy, Kirti Pandey, Tanya Kozlik, Ravi K Shah, Shanzou Chung, Phuong Nguyen, Xiaoyu Zhang and 28 more

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Article in Cell reports. Medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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38 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Allison M KirkDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Jeremy Chase CrawfordDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Ching-Heng ChouDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Cliff GuyDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Kirti PandeyDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia.
Tanya KozlikDepartment of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
Ravi K ShahDepartment of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
Shanzou ChungDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia.
Phuong NguyenDepartment of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Xiaoyu ZhangDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Jin WangDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.
Matthew BellDepartment of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Robert C MettelmanDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
E Kaitlynn AllenDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Mikhail V PogorelyyDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Hyunjin KimDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Anastasia A MinervinaDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Walid AwadDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Resha BajracharyaDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA; Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Toni WhiteDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Donald LongDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
Brittney GordonDepartment of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Michelle MorrisonCenter for Cancer Research, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.
Evan S GlazerCenter for Cancer Research, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA; Department of Surgery, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.
Andrew J MurphyDepartment of Surgery, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA; Department of Surgery, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Yixing JiangDepartment of Medical Oncology, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Elizabeth A FitzpatrickDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.
Mark YarchoanDepartment of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA.
Praveen SethupathyDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
Nathan P CroftDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia.
Anthony W PurcellDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia.
Sara M FedericoDepartment of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Elizabeth StewartDepartment of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA; Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Stephen GottschalkDepartment of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Anthony E ZamoraDepartment of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
Christopher DeRenzoDepartment of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Scott E StromeCollege of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA. Electronic address: sstrome3@gmail.com.
Paul G ThomasDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA. Electronic address: paul.thomas@stjude.org.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · USUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center · USMonash University · AUMedical College of Wisconsin · USUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · USCornell University · USJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

DECODING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN T CELL RECEPTORS AND PEPTIDE-MHCR01AI136514 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Paul G. Thomas · 2018 to 2026
$6.9M
Neoantigen-specific T cell responses for Fibrolamellar Hepatocellular CarcinomaR01CA265009 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Paul G. Thomas, Mark Yarchoan · 2022 to 2026
$3.6M
Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy Platform Study Reveals Mechanisms of Response in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)R01CA285544 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Won Jin Ho, Mark Yarchoan · 2024 to 2026
$2.0M
Exploiting A Critical Vulnerability To Glutamine Antimetabolite Therapy in Fibrolamellar Hepatocellular Carcinoma (FLC)R01CA289041 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Mark Yarchoan · 2024 to 2026
$1.9M
T Cell Responses to Neoantigens in Fibrolamellar CarcinomaF31CA254423 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES, LLC · PI KIRK, ALLISON MACKENZIE · 2021 to 2023
$105k
NCI NIH HHS F31 CA254423NCI NIH HHS R01 CA265009NCI NIH HHS R01 CA285544NCI NIH HHS R01 CA289041NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI136514
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC) is a liver tumor with a high mortality burden and few treatment options. A promising therapeutic vulnerability in FLC is its driver mutation, a conserved DNAJB1-PRKACA gene fusion that could be an ideal target neoantigen for immunotherapy. In this study, we aim to define endogenous CD8 T cell responses to this fusion in FLC patients and evaluate fusion-specific T cell receptors (TCRs) for use in cellular immunotherapies. We observe that fusion-specific CD8 T cells are rare and that FLC patient TCR repertoires lack large clusters of related TCR sequences characteristic of potent antigen-specific responses, potentially explaining why endogenous immune responses are insufficient to clear FLC tumors. Nevertheless, we define two functional fusion-specific TCRs, one of which has strong anti-tumor activity in vivo. Together, our results provide insights into the fragmented nature of neoantigen-specific repertoires in humans and indicate routes for clinical development of successful immunotherapies for FLC.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, HepatocellularCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyCyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Catalytic SubunitsHSP40 Heat-Shock ProteinsHumansReceptors, Antigen, T-CellT-LymphocytesCyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Catalytic SubunitsDNAJB1 protein, humanHSP40 Heat-Shock ProteinsPRKACA protein, humanReceptors, Antigen, T-CellCD8 T cellcell therapyDNAJB1-PRKACAfibrolamellar carcinomagene fusionimmunotherapyneoantigenT cell receptorTCR repertoire

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PMID38508137
PMCPMC10983114
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