Immunogenicity of non-canonical HLA-I tumor ligands identified through proteogenomics

Abstract Tumor antigens are central to antitumor immunity. Recent evidence suggests that peptides from non-canonical (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. Using proteogenomics, we identified 517 nonC-TL from 9 patients with melanoma, gynecological, and head and neck cancer. We found no recognition of the 507 nonC-TL tested by autologousex vivoexpanded tumor reactive T-cell cultures while the same cultures demonstrated reactivity to mutated, cancer-germline, or melanocyte differentiation antigens. However,in vitrosensitization of donor peripheral blood lymphocytes against 170 selected nonC-TL, led to the identification of T-cell receptors (TCRs) specific to three nonC-TL, two of which mapped to the 5’ UTR regions of HOXC13 and ZKSCAN1, and one mapping to a non-coding 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. Our findings predict a limited contribution of nonC-TL to cancer immunosurveillance but demonstrate they may be attractive novel targets for widely applicable immunotherapies..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 23. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

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

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2022.11.07.514886

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XBI037812580