Exploring the Immunogenicity of Noncanonical HLA-I Tumor Ligands Identified through Proteogenomics

©2023 The Authors; Published by the American Association for Cancer Research..

PURPOSE: Tumor antigens are central to antitumor immunity. Recent evidence suggests that peptides from noncanonical (nonC) aberrantly translated proteins can be presented on HLA-I by tumor cells. Here, we investigated the immunogenicity of nonC tumor HLA-I ligands (nonC-TL) to better understand their contribution to cancer immunosurveillance and their therapeutic applicability.

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Peptides presented on HLA-I were identified in 9 patient-derived tumor cell lines from melanoma, gynecologic, and head and neck cancer through proteogenomics. A total of 507 candidate tumor antigens, including nonC-TL, neoantigens, cancer-germline, or melanocyte differentiation antigens, were tested for T-cell recognition of preexisting responses in patients with cancer. Donor peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) were in vitro sensitized against 170 selected nonC-TL to isolate antigen-specific T-cell receptors (TCR) and evaluate their therapeutic potential.

RESULTS: We found no recognition of the 507 nonC-TL tested by autologous ex vivo expanded tumor-reactive T-cell cultures while the same cultures demonstrated reactivity to mutated, cancer-germline, or melanocyte differentiation antigens. However, in vitro sensitization of donor PBL against 170 selected nonC-TL, led to the identification of TCRs specific to three nonC-TL, two of which mapped to the 5' UTR regions of HOXC13 and ZKSCAN1, and one mapping to a noncoding spliced variant of C5orf22C. T cells targeting these nonC-TL recognized cancer cell lines naturally presenting their corresponding antigens. Expression of the three immunogenic nonC-TL was shared across tumor types and barely or not detected in normal cells.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings predict a limited contribution of nonC-TL to cancer immunosurveillance but demonstrate they may be attractive novel targets for widely applicable immunotherapies. See related commentary by Fox et al., p. 2173.

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CommentIn: Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Jun 13;29(12):2173-2175. - PMID 37040070

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 29(2023), 12 vom: 13. Juni, Seite 2250-2265

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lozano-Rabella, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Garcia-Garijo, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Palomero, Jara [VerfasserIn]
Yuste-Estevanez, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Erhard, Florian [VerfasserIn]
Farriol-Duran, Roc [VerfasserIn]
Martín-Liberal, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Ochoa-de-Olza, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Matos, Ignacio [VerfasserIn]
Gartner, Jared J [VerfasserIn]
Ghosh, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Canals, Francesc [VerfasserIn]
Vidal, August [VerfasserIn]
Piulats, Josep Maria [VerfasserIn]
Matías-Guiu, Xavier [VerfasserIn]
Brana, Irene [VerfasserIn]
Muñoz-Couselo, Eva [VerfasserIn]
Garralda, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Schlosser, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Gros, Alena [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antigens, Neoplasm
Comment
Editorial
Ligands
Peptides
Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 14.06.2023

Date Revised 23.01.2024

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CommentIn: Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Jun 13;29(12):2173-2175. - PMID 37040070

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-22-3298

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NLM352598123