1. Neoantigen-targeted CD8 + T cell responses with PD-1 blockade therapy.
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Puig-Saus C, Sennino B, Peng S, Wang CL, Pan Z, Yuen B, Purandare B, An D, Quach BB, Nguyen D, Xia H, Jilani S, Shao K, McHugh C, Greer J, Peabody P, Nayak S, Hoover J, Said S, Jacoby K, Dalmas O, Foy SP, Conroy A, Yi MC, Shieh C, Lu W, Heeringa K, Ma Y, Chizari S, Pilling MJ, Ting M, Tunuguntla R, Sandoval S, Moot R, Hunter T, Zhao S, Saco JD, Perez-Garcilazo I, Medina E, Vega-Crespo A, Baselga-Carretero I, Abril-Rodriguez G, Cherry G, Wong DJ, Hundal J, Chmielowski B, Speiser DE, Bethune MT, Bao XR, Gros A, Griffith OL, Griffith M, Heath JR, Franzusoff A, Mandl SJ, and Ribas A
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- Humans, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell immunology, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell metabolism, HLA Antigens immunology, Neoplasm Metastasis, Precision Medicine, Gene Editing, CRISPR-Cas Systems, Mutation, Antigens, Neoplasm immunology, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes immunology, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes metabolism, Immunotherapy, Melanoma drug therapy, Melanoma genetics, Melanoma immunology, Melanoma pathology, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors pharmacology, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors therapeutic use
- Abstract
Neoantigens are peptides derived from non-synonymous mutations presented by human leukocyte antigens (HLAs), which are recognized by antitumour T cells
1-14 . The large HLA allele diversity and limiting clinical samples have restricted the study of the landscape of neoantigen-targeted T cell responses in patients over their treatment course. Here we applied recently developed technologies15-17 to capture neoantigen-specific T cells from blood and tumours from patients with metastatic melanoma with or without response to anti-programmed death receptor 1 (PD-1) immunotherapy. We generated personalized libraries of neoantigen-HLA capture reagents to single-cell isolate the T cells and clone their T cell receptors (neoTCRs). Multiple T cells with different neoTCR sequences (T cell clonotypes) recognized a limited number of mutations in samples from seven patients with long-lasting clinical responses. These neoTCR clonotypes were recurrently detected over time in the blood and tumour. Samples from four patients with no response to anti-PD-1 also demonstrated neoantigen-specific T cell responses in the blood and tumour to a restricted number of mutations with lower TCR polyclonality and were not recurrently detected in sequential samples. Reconstitution of the neoTCRs in donor T cells using non-viral CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing demonstrated specific recognition and cytotoxicity to patient-matched melanoma cell lines. Thus, effective anti-PD-1 immunotherapy is associated with the presence of polyclonal CD8+ T cells in the tumour and blood specific for a limited number of immunodominant mutations, which are recurrently recognized over time., (© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.)- Published
- 2023
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