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Cytoskeleton and ECM tumor mutant peptides: Increased protease sensitivities and potential consequences for the HLA class I mutant epitope reservoir

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 142, Issue 5, Pages 988-998

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.31111

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cytoskeleton; extracellular matrix; protease; melanoma; HLA; mutations; cathepsins; bioinformatics; genomics

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  1. Bonati Bioinformatics Scholarship
  2. State of Florida

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Cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix-related proteins (CECMPs) represent the most common class of cancer mutants, owing to the large size of their coding regions and the randomness of mutagenesis. We used a bioinformatics approach to assess the impact of amino acid (AA) substitutions on the sensitivity of CECMPs to proteases relevant to melanoma and on the binding affinities for HLA class I. CECMP peptides with AA substitutions overwhelmingly reflect increased sensitivity to proteases implicated in melanoma development (MME, CTSS, MMP2, CTSD, CTSL) in comparison to the wild-type peptide sequences. Furthermore, peptides with AA substitutions representing increased peptide protease sensitivity also represented relatively high binding affinities for HLA class I allelic variants. These analyses raise the question of whether increased protease sensitivity, of mutant cancer peptides represents a significant increase in the availability of cancer mutant, HLA class I epitopes and a hitherto unappreciated aspect of cancer cell immunogenicity, particularly in the case of melanoma?

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