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NATURE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 4, Issue 6, Pages 636-648Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41551-020-0563-4
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- National Institutes of Health [CA174795]
- National Institutes of Health (National Institute of General Medical Sciences-NIH Interdepartmental Biotechnology Training Program)
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Tuning the pharmacokinetics of peptide-based antitumour vaccines by fusing the peptide epitopes to protein carriers optimizes the immunogenicity of the vaccines in mice. The formulations of peptide-based antitumour vaccines being tested in clinical studies are generally associated with weak potency. Here, we show that pharmacokinetically tuning the responses of peptide vaccines by fusing the peptide epitopes to carrier proteins optimizes vaccine immunogenicity in mice. In particular, we show in immunized mice that the carrier protein transthyretin simultaneously optimizes three factors: efficient antigen uptake in draining lymphatics from the site of injection, protection of antigen payloads from proteolytic degradation and reduction of antigen presentation in uninflamed distal lymphoid organs. Optimizing these factors increases vaccine immunogenicity by up to 90-fold and maximizes the responses to viral antigens, tumour-associated antigens, oncofetal antigens and shared neoantigens. Protein-peptide epitope fusions represent a facile and generalizable strategy for enhancing the T-cell responses elicited by subunit vaccines.
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