Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

RNA editing derived epitopes function as cancer antigens to elicit immune responses

  • Minying Zhang,
  • Jens Fritsche,
  • Jason Roszik,
  • Leila J. Williams,
  • Xinxin Peng,
  • Yulun Chiu,
  • Chih-Chiang Tsou,
  • Franziska Hoffgaard,
  • Valentina Goldfinger,
  • Oliver Schoor,
  • Amjad Talukder,
  • Marie A. Forget,
  • Cara Haymaker,
  • Chantale Bernatchez,
  • Leng Han,
  • Yiu-Huen Tsang,
  • Kathleen Kong,
  • Xiaoyan Xu,
  • Kenneth L. Scott,
  • Harpreet Singh-Jasuja,
  • Greg Lizee,
  • Han Liang,
  • Toni Weinschenk,
  • Gordon B. Mills,
  • Patrick Hwu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06405-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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RNA editing is a biological process that creates sequence variation. Here the authors show that peptides generated as a consequence of RNA editing are naturally presented by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and serve as antigens to elicit anti-tumour immune responses.