The immunogenicity of a proline-substituted altered peptide ligand toward the cancer-associated TEIPP neoepitope Trh4 is unrelated to complex stability
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Data di Pubblicazione:
2018
Citazione:
The immunogenicity of a proline-substituted altered peptide ligand toward the cancer-associated TEIPP neoepitope Trh4 is unrelated to complex stability / I. Hafstrand, E.M. Doorduijn, R. Sun, A. Talyzina, M. Sluijter, S. Pellegrino, T. Sandalova, A.D. Duru, T. van Hall, A. Achour. - In: JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. - ISSN 0022-1767. - 200:8(2018 Apr 15), pp. 2860-2868. [10.4049/jimmunol.1700228]
Abstract:
Human cancers frequently display defects in Ag processing and presentation allowing for immune evasion, and they therefore constitute a significant challenge for T cell-based immunotherapy. We have previously demonstrated that the antigenicity of tumor-associated Ags can be significantly enhanced through unconventional residue modifications as a novel tool for MHC class I (MHC-I)-based immunotherapy approaches. We have also previously identified a novel category of cancer neo-epitopes, that is, T cell epitopes associated with impaired peptide processing (TEIPP), that are selectively presented by MHC-I on cells lacking the peptide transporter TAP. In this study, we demonstrate that substitution of the nonanchoring position 3 into a proline residue of the first identified TEIPP peptide, the murine Trh4, results in significantly enhanced recognition by antitumor CTLs toward the wild-type epitope. Although higher immunogenicity has in most cases been associated with increased MHC/peptide complex stability, our results demonstrate that the overall stability of H-2Dbin complex with the highly immunogenic altered peptide ligand Trh4-p3P is significantly reduced compared with wild-type H-2Db/Trh4. Comparison of the crystal structures of the H-2Db/Trh4-p3P and H-2Db/Trh4 complexes revealed that the conformation of the nonconventional methionine anchor residue p5M is altered, deleting its capacity to form adequate sulfur-π interactions with H-2Dbresidues, thus reducing the overall longevity of the complex. Collectively, our results indicate that vaccination with Thr4-p3P significantly enhances T cell recognition of targets presenting the wild-type TEIPP epitope and that higher immunogenicity is not necessarily directly related to MHC/peptide complex stability, opening for the possibility to design novel peptide vaccines with reduced MHC/peptide complex stability.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
I. Hafstrand, E.M. Doorduijn, R. Sun, A. Talyzina, M. Sluijter, S. Pellegrino, T. Sandalova, A.D. Duru, T. van Hall, A. Achour
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