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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Generation of actionable, cancer-specific neoantigens from KRAS(G12C) with adagrasib.

Lorenzo Maso, Epsa Rajak, Takamitsu Hattori, Zhengshan Hu, Akiko Koide, Benjamin G Neel, Shohei Koide

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  1. KRAS G12C inhibitors in KRASFrontiers in immunology · 2026
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7 authors.

Lorenzo Maso *Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY 10016.ORCID 0000-0002-3380-2902
Epsa Rajak *Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY 10016.ORCID 0009-0006-6944-2618
Takamitsu HattoriPerlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY 10016.ORCID 0000-0002-5502-2595
Zhengshan HuPerlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY 10016.
Akiko KoidePerlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY 10016.
Benjamin G NeelPerlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY 10016.ORCID 0000-0002-9589-585X
Shohei KoidePerlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY 10016.ORCID 0000-0001-5473-4358

Funding

Vaccine FacilityP30CA016087 · NCI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI MARK Reid PHILIPS · 1985 to 2026
$83.1M
Response and resistance to SHP2 inhibitors alone and in combination in Non-Small Cell Lung CancerR01CA248896 · NCI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI NEEL, BENJAMIN G., WONG, KWOK KIN · 2021 to 2025
$3.4M
Novel biologics platform for targeting tumors driven by intracellular oncoproteinsR21CA267362 · NCI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI KOIDE, SHOHEI · 2022 to 2023
$431k
HHS | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) P30CA016087HHS | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01CA248896HHS | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R21CA267362NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016087NCI NIH HHS R01 CA248896NCI NIH HHS R21 CA267362
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effective immune therapy against cancer ideally should target a cancer-specific antigen, an antigen that is present exclusively in cancer cells. However, there is a paucity of cancer-specific antigens that are endogenously produced. HapImmune™ technology utilizes covalent inhibitors directed to an intracellular cancer driver to create cancer-specific neoantigens in the form of drug-peptide conjugates presented by class I MHC molecules. Our previous study with sotorasib, an FDA-approved covalent inhibitor of KRAS(G12C), demonstrated that drug-treated cells produce such neoantigens and can be killed by T cell engagers directed against the drug-peptide/MHC complex. Thus, this technology can unite targeted and immune therapies. In the present study, we examined whether this approach could generalize to another FDA-approved KRAS(G12C) inhibitor, adagrasib, whose chemical structure and cysteine reactivity differ substantially from sotorasib. We developed antibodies selective to adagrasib-KRAS(G12C) peptides presented by HLA-A*03 and A*11 that also show cross-reactivity to other KRAS(G12C) inhibitors presented in the same manner. Cryoelectron microscopy structures revealed a mode of adagrasib-peptide/HLA recognition distinctly different from that of sotorasib-directed HapImmune antibodies. The antibodies in a bispecific T cell engager format killed adagrasib-resistant lung cancer cells upon adagrasib treatment. These results support the broad applicability of the HapImmune approach for creating actionable cancer-specific neoantigens and offer candidates for therapeutic development.

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Antigens, NeoplasmProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)Cell Line, TumorHumansLung NeoplasmsPeptidesPiperazinesPyridinesPyrimidinesT-LymphocytesAntigens, NeoplasmKRAS protein, humanPeptidesPiperazinesProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)PyridinesPyrimidinessotorasibcovalent inhibitordrug discoverydrug resistanceprotein engineeringTCR mimic

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PMID40737322
PMCPMC12337345

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