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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2025

Pengjun Zhou, Xing Shi, Jinquan Xia, Hong Hu

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Pengjun ZhouDepartment of Pharmacology, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China.
Xing ShiBeijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Jinquan XiaDepartment of Clinical and Research Center, Shenzhen People's Hospital (The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology; The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Hong HuDivision of Breast Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Shenzhen People's Hospital (The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology; The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aims and objectives: This study aimed to identify immunodominant epitopes from a panel of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)-associated proteins-MZF-1, Mucin-1, SOX-9, Keratin 5, Keratin 14, Twist1, and Progranulin (GP88)-to design multi-epitope peptide vaccines capable of eliciting robust anti-tumour immune responses. Methods: A comprehensive immunoinformatics pipeline was employed. Amino acid sequences were retrieved from UniProt and analysed to predict CTL, HTL, B-cell, and IFN-γ-inducing epitopes. Top candidates were filtered based on antigenicity, allergenicity, glycosylation, and HLA coverage. Molecular docking was conducted with HLA alleles to assess binding affinity. Five multi-epitope vaccine constructs were designed using different adjuvants (GM-CSF, β-defensin, IL-2, cholera enterotoxin, and 50S ribosomal protein L7/L12), and enhanced with PADRE and HEYGAEALERA sequences. Structural modelling, refinement, disulfide engineering, and validation (via Robetta, GalaxyRefine, ProSA, and Ramachandran plots) were performed, followed by docking with TLR2 and TLR4. Immune simulation assessed cytokine responses and memory generation. Results: Thirteen CD8+ CTL, thirteen CD4+ HTL, and seven B-cell epitopes were selected based on favourable immunogenic properties and high HLA promiscuity. Constructs V1 (GM-CSF-linked) and V5 (β-defensin-linked) exhibited superior TLR2/4 docking affinity. Immune simulation showed V2 and V5 induced strong cytokine release and memory cell responses. Conclusion: This study successfully identified potent immunogenic epitopes from TNBC-associated proteins and constructed promising multi-epitope vaccines. Constructs V1 and V5 demonstrated superior immunogenicity and TLR binding, while V2 and V5 induced strong immune responses

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adjuvantepitopein vitro analysisT-lymphocytestoll-like receptortriple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)

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PMCPMC12229876

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