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The Immunoproteasome Is Expressed but Dispensable for a Leukemia Infected Cell Vaccine.

Delphine Béland, Victor Mullins-Dansereau, Karen Geoffroy, Mélissa Viens, Kim Leclerc Desaulniers, Marie-Claude Bourgeois-Daigneault

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6 authors.

Delphine BélandCancer Axis, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal and Institut du Cancer de Montréal, Montreal, QC H2X 0A9, Canada.
Victor Mullins-DansereauCancer Axis, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal and Institut du Cancer de Montréal, Montreal, QC H2X 0A9, Canada.
Karen GeoffroyCancer Axis, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal and Institut du Cancer de Montréal, Montreal, QC H2X 0A9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6093-349X
Mélissa ViensCancer Axis, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal and Institut du Cancer de Montréal, Montreal, QC H2X 0A9, Canada.
Kim Leclerc DesaulniersCancer Axis, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal and Institut du Cancer de Montréal, Montreal, QC H2X 0A9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5393-083X
Marie-Claude Bourgeois-DaigneaultCancer Axis, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal and Institut du Cancer de Montréal, Montreal, QC H2X 0A9, Canada.

Funding

Cole Foundation 70054
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND/

objectivesLeukemia is associated with high recurrence rates and cancer vaccines are emerging as a promising immunotherapy against the disease. Here, we investigate the mechanism of action by which a personalized vaccine made from leukemia cells infected with an oncolytic virus (ICV) induces anti-tumor immunity.

methodsUsing the L1210 murine model, leukemia cells were infected and irradiated to create the ICV. The CRISPR-Cas9 system was used to engineer knockout cells to test in treatment efficacy studies.

resultsWe found that pro-inflammatory interferons (IFNs) that are produced by infected vaccine cells induce the immunoproteasome (ImP), a specialized proteasome subtype that is found in immune cells. Interestingly, we show that while a vaccine using the oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus (oVSV) completely protects against tumor challenge, the wild-type (wt) virus, which does not induce the ImP, is not as effective. To delineate the contribution of the ImP for vaccine efficacy, we generated ImP-knockout cell lines and found no differences in treatment efficacy compared to wild-type cells. Furthermore, an ICV using another murine leukemia model that expresses the ImP only when infected by an IFN gamma-encoding variant of the virus demonstrated similar efficacy as the parental virus.

conclusionsTaken together, our data show that ImP expression by vaccine cells was not required for the efficacy of leukemia ICVs.

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immunoproteasomeinfected cell vaccineleukemiaoncolytic virotherapyvesicular stomatitis virus

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PMCPMC12390170

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