Identification of neoepitopes recognized by tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) from patients with glioma

Neoepitope-specific T-cell responses have been shown to induce durable clinical responses in patients with advanced cancers. We explored the recognition patterns of tumor-infiltrating T lymphocytes (TILs) from patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most fatal form of tumors of the central nervous system. Whole-genome sequencing was used for generating DNA sequences representing the entire spectrum of 'private' somatic mutations in GBM tumors from five patients, followed by 15-mer peptide prediction and subsequent peptide synthesis. For each mutated peptide sequence, the wildtype sequence was also synthesized and individually co-cultured with autologous GBM TILs, which had been expanded in vitro with a combination of interleukin (IL)-2, IL-15 and IL-21. After seven days of culture, interferon gamma (IFN-γ), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and/or IL-17A production was measured by ELISA in culture supernatants, and used as an epitope-specific immune response readout. Mutated peptides that induced a strong cytokine response were considered to contain legitimate neoepitopes. TILs from 5/5 patients with GBM exhibited specific immune reactivity profiles to the nominal target peptides, defined by IFN-γ and/or TNF-α production, as well as IL-17A. Neoepitopes, defined by mutated peptides inducing IFN-γ and/or TNF-α production without or only minimal reactivity to the wildtype sequences, were found for each individual patient. CD8+ TILs dominated the patients' responses to private neoepitopes. The present study shows that neoepitope-specific TIL reactivity constitutes an important arm of anti-tumor immune responses in patients with GBM, and thus a powerful tool for developing next-generation personalized immunotherapies.

Errataetall:

ErratumIn: Oncotarget. 2018 Dec 4;9(95):36817. - PMID 30613370

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Oncotarget - 9(2018), 28 vom: 13. Apr., Seite 19469-19480

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Valentini, Davide [VerfasserIn]
Rao, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Qingda [VerfasserIn]
von Landenberg, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Bartek, Jiri [VerfasserIn]
Sinclair, Georges [VerfasserIn]
Paraschoudi, Georgia [VerfasserIn]
Jäger, Elke [VerfasserIn]
Harvey-Peredo, Inti [VerfasserIn]
Dodoo, Ernest [VerfasserIn]
Maeurer, Markus [VerfasserIn]

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Glioblastoma
Immunology
Immunotherapy
Interferon gamma
Journal Article
Neoepitopes
Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes

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Date Revised 20.11.2019

published: Electronic-eCollection

ErratumIn: Oncotarget. 2018 Dec 4;9(95):36817. - PMID 30613370

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.18632/oncotarget.24955

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NLM283790261