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ArticleLeukemia2025

Endogenous T cell responses to fusion-derived neoantigens in pediatric acute leukemias.

Ricky Tirtakusuma, Mohamed A Ghonim, Stefan Schattgen, Bradley Muller, Lee Ann Van de Velde, Tanya M Khan, Jeremy Chase Crawford, Jing Ma, Sherif Abdelhamed, Kasi Vegesana and 6 more

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Article in Leukemia, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Ricky TirtakusumaDepartment of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Mohamed A GhonimDepartment of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9404-2698
Stefan SchattgenDepartment of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6860-5079
Bradley MullerDepartment of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Lee Ann Van de VeldeDepartment of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Tanya M KhanDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Jeremy Chase CrawfordDepartment of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4096-6048
Jing MaDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Sherif AbdelhamedDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Kasi VegesanaDepartment of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Walid AwadDepartment of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
E Kaitlynn AllenDepartment of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Ilaria IacobucciDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2008-1365
Charles G MullighanDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1871-1850
Jeffery M KlcoDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2961-6960
Paul G ThomasDepartment of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA. paul.thomas@stjude.org.ORCID 0000-0001-7955-0256

Funding

Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Shondra Michelle Miller · 1985 to 2026
$166.9M
Translating genomic discoveries to improved outcomes for high risk acute leukemiaR35CA197695 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Charles G Mullighan · 2017 to 2026
$11.4M
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
Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Division of Intramural Research of the NIAID) R01AI136514NCI NIH HHS P30 CA021765NCI NIH HHS R01 CA265009NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197695NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI136514U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01CA265009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pediatric patients with fusion-driven leukemias frequently have a poor prognosis and need more effective therapies. Adoptive T-cell therapies, using expanded autologous T cells, have shown promise as an immunotherapeutic for patients with tumors characterized by high mutational burdens. However, this approach has not been shown to be effective in pediatric leukemias. In this study, we analyzed samples from pediatric patients with fusion-driven acute lymphoblastic, acute myeloid, and mixed phenotypic leukemias, including those with KMT2A-rearrangements. T cells were attained from bone marrow samples, expanded, and their reactivity against autologous leukemic blasts was tested. Strikingly, we observed leukemia-reactive T cells in nearly all patients (33 of 34) at diagnosis or relapse. Furthermore, some patients contained clones reactive to fusion neoantigens and other tumor-associated antigens, and candidate samples were further enriched by selecting for PD1

Indexed as

Antigens, NeoplasmLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteOncogene Proteins, FusionPrecursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-LymphomaT-LymphocytesAdolescentChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHistone-Lysine N-MethyltransferaseHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveInfantMaleMyeloid-Lymphoid Leukemia ProteinAntigens, NeoplasmHistone-Lysine N-MethyltransferaseKMT2A protein, humanMyeloid-Lymphoid Leukemia ProteinOncogene Proteins, Fusion

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PMID40707674
PMCPMC12463655

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