研究揭示微衛星不穩定腫瘤中的多表位移碼突變
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美國西奈山醫院伊坎醫學院Nina Bhardwaj小組揭示微衛星不穩定腫瘤中的共享免疫原性多表位移碼突變。這一研究成果於2020年11月30日在線發表在國際學術期刊《細胞》上。
研究人員確定了編碼多個表位的腫瘤特異性移碼,這些表位源自高度微衛星不穩定性(MSI-H)子宮內膜癌、結直腸癌和胃癌患者之間共有的插入缺失突變。從這些共有的移碼中衍生出的抗原決定簇具有較高的群體發生率,在許多腫瘤亞克隆中的廣泛存在,並且預計將與MSI-H患者隊列中最常見的MHC等位基因結合。
由這些突變產生的新抗原與自身和病毒抗原明顯不同,這標誌著可能具有高度免疫原性的新型腫瘤抗原。研究人員還使用從健康供體和MSI-H癌症患者中分離的血液單核細胞在T細胞刺激實驗中進一步證實了移碼肽的免疫原性。這些研究發現了MSI-H癌症和Lynch症候群患者中由共享移碼突變所產生的腫瘤特異性抗原具有的廣泛存在和強免疫原性,可用於設計常見的「現成」癌症疫苗。
據悉,MSI-H腫瘤的特徵是高腫瘤突變負擔和對檢查站封鎖的反應能力。
附:英文原文
Title: Shared Immunogenic Poly-Epitope Frameshift Mutations in Microsatellite Unstable Tumors
Author: Vladimir Roudko, Cansu Cimen Bozkus, Theofano Orfanelli, Christopher B. McClain, Caitlin Carr, Timothy O』Donnell, Lauren Chakraborty, Robert Samstein, Kuan-lin Huang, Stephanie V. Blank, Benjamin Greenbaum, Nina Bhardwaj
Issue&Volume: 2020-11-30
Abstract: Microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) tumors are characterized by high tumor mutationburden and responsiveness to checkpoint blockade. We identified tumor-specific frameshiftsencoding multiple epitopes that originated from indel mutations shared among patientswith MSI-H endometrial, colorectal, and stomach cancers. Epitopes derived from theseshared frameshifts have high population occurrence rates, wide presence in many tumorsubclones, and are predicted to bind to the most frequent MHC alleles in MSI-H patientcohorts. Neoantigens arising from these mutations are distinctly unlike self and viralantigens, signifying novel groups of potentially highly immunogenic tumor antigens.We further confirmed the immunogenicity of frameshift peptides in T cell stimulationexperiments using blood mononuclear cells isolated from both healthy donors and MSI-Hcancer patients. Our study uncovers the widespread occurrence and strong immunogenicityof tumor-specific antigens derived from shared frameshift mutations in MSI-H cancerand Lynch syndrome patients, suitable for the design of common 「off-the-shelf」 cancervaccines.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.004
Source: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31463-X
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