High-throughput screening of functional neo-antigens and their specific TCRs via the Jurkat reporter system combined with droplet microfluidics

Summary T-cell receptor (TCR)-engineered T cells can precisely recognize a broad repertoire of targets derived from both intracellular and surface proteins of tumor cells. TCR-T adoptive cell therapy has shown safety and promising efficacy in solid tumor immunotherapy. However, antigen-specific functional TCR screening is time-consuming and expensive, which limits its application clinically. Here, we developed a novel integrated antigen-TCR screening platform based on droplet microfluidics technology, enabling high-throughput peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) library-to-TCR library screening with high sensitivity and low background signal. We introduced DNA barcoding technology to label peptide antigen candidate-loaded antigen-presenting cells (APCs) and Jurkat reporter cells to check the specificity of pMHC-TCR candidates. Coupled with the next-generation sequencing pipeline, interpretation of the DNA barcodes and the gene expression level of the Jurkat T-cell activation pathway provided a clear peptide-MHC-TCR recognition relationship. Our proof-of-principle study demonstrates that the platform could achieve unbiased pMHC-TCR library-on-library screening, which is expected to be used in the cross-reactivity and off-target testing of candidate pMHC-TCR libraries in clinical applications..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 23. Feb. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Yijian [VerfasserIn]
Qi, Jingyu [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Yuyu [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Haibin [VerfasserIn]
Zang, Yupeng [VerfasserIn]
Guan, Xiangyu [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Sichong [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Hongyan [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Yunyun [VerfasserIn]
Xiang, Haitao [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Weicong [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Huanyi [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Huan [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Yuntong [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Bu, Fanyu [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Yanling [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Qumiao [VerfasserIn]
He, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Li [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Longqi [VerfasserIn]
Gu, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Xun [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Yong [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Xuan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Ya [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.02.20.529171

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

XBI038751933