TY - JOUR
T1 - A long, naturally presented immunodominant epitope from NY-ESO-1 tumor antigen: implications for cancer vaccine design
AU - Ebert, Lisa M
AU - Liu, Yu Chih
AU - Clements, Craig Steven
AU - Robson, Neil C
AU - Jackson, Heather M
AU - Markby, Jessica L
AU - Dimopoulos, Nektaria
AU - Tan, Bee Shin
AU - Luescher, Immanuel F
AU - Davis, Ian D
AU - Rossjohn, Jamie
AU - Cebon, Jonathan
AU - Purcell, Anthony Wayne
AU - Chen, Weisan
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The tumor antigen NY-ESO-1 is a promising cancer vaccine target. We describe here a novel HLA-B7-restricted NY-ESO-1 epitope, encompassing amino acids 60-72 (APRGPHGGAASGL), which is naturally presented by melanoma cells. The tumor epitope bound to HLA-B7 by bulging outward from the peptide-binding cleft. This bulged epitope was not an impediment to T-cell recognition, however, because four of six HLA-B7(+) melanoma patients vaccinated with NY-ESO-1 ISCOMATRIX vaccine generated a potent T-cell response to this determinant. Moreover, the response to this epitope was immunodominant in three of these patients and, unlike the T-cell responses to bulged HLA class I viral epitopes, the responding T cells possessed a remarkably broad TCR repertoire. Interestingly, HLA-B7(+) melanoma patients who did not receive the NY-ESO-1 ISCOMATRIX vaccine rarely generated a spontaneous T-cell response to this cryptic epitope, suggesting a lack of priming of such T cells in the natural anti-NY-ESO-1 response, which may be corrected by vaccination. Together, our results reveal several surprising aspects of antitumor immunity and have implications for cancer vaccine design. [Cancer Res 2009;69(3):1046-54].
AB - The tumor antigen NY-ESO-1 is a promising cancer vaccine target. We describe here a novel HLA-B7-restricted NY-ESO-1 epitope, encompassing amino acids 60-72 (APRGPHGGAASGL), which is naturally presented by melanoma cells. The tumor epitope bound to HLA-B7 by bulging outward from the peptide-binding cleft. This bulged epitope was not an impediment to T-cell recognition, however, because four of six HLA-B7(+) melanoma patients vaccinated with NY-ESO-1 ISCOMATRIX vaccine generated a potent T-cell response to this determinant. Moreover, the response to this epitope was immunodominant in three of these patients and, unlike the T-cell responses to bulged HLA class I viral epitopes, the responding T cells possessed a remarkably broad TCR repertoire. Interestingly, HLA-B7(+) melanoma patients who did not receive the NY-ESO-1 ISCOMATRIX vaccine rarely generated a spontaneous T-cell response to this cryptic epitope, suggesting a lack of priming of such T cells in the natural anti-NY-ESO-1 response, which may be corrected by vaccination. Together, our results reveal several surprising aspects of antitumor immunity and have implications for cancer vaccine design. [Cancer Res 2009;69(3):1046-54].
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19176376
U2 - 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-2926
DO - 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-2926
M3 - Article
SN - 0008-5472
VL - 69
SP - 1046
EP - 1054
JO - Cancer Research
JF - Cancer Research
IS - 3
ER -