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Antigen Spreading Contributes to MAGE Vaccination-Induced Regression of Melanoma Metastases

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CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 71, Issue 4, Pages 1253-1262

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AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-2693

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  1. Belgian State, Prime Minister's Office, Science Policy
  2. European Community [LSHC-2005-518234]
  3. Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique FNRS (Belgium)
  4. Fondation contre le Cancer (Belgium)
  5. Fonds J. Maisin (Belgium)
  6. Fondation Salus Sanguinis (Brussels)

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A core challenge in cancer immunotherapy is to understand the basis for efficacious vaccine responses in human patients. In previous work we identified a melanoma patient who displayed a low-level antivaccine cytolytic T-cell (CTL) response in blood with tumor regression after vaccination with melanoma antigens (MAGE). Using a genetic approach including T-cell receptor beta (TCR beta) cDNA libraries, we found very few antivaccine CTLs in regressing metastases. However, a far greater number of TCR beta sequences were found with several of these corresponding to CTL clones specific for nonvaccine tumor antigens, suggesting that antigen spreading was occurring in regressing metastases. In this study, we found another TCR belonging to tumor-specific CTL enriched in regressing metastases and detectable in blood only after vaccination. We used the TCR beta sequence to detect and clone the desired T cells from tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes isolated from the patient. This CD8 clone specifically lysed autologous melanoma cells and displayed HLA-A2 restriction. Its target antigen was identified as the mitochondrial enzyme caseinolytic protease. The target antigen gene was mutated in the tumor, resulting in production of a neoantigen. Melanoma cell lysis by the CTL was increased by IFN-gamma treatment due to preferential processing of the antigenic peptide by the immunoproteasome. These results argue that tumor rejection effectors in the patient were indeed CTL responding to nonvaccine tumor-specific antigens, further supporting our hypothesis. Among such antigens, the mutated antigen we found is the only antigen against which no T cells could be detected before vaccination. We propose that antigen spreading of an antitumor T-cell response to truly tumor-specific antigens contributes decisively to tumor regression. Cancer Res; 71(4); 1253-62. (C)2011 AACR.

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