Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Human preprocalcitonin self-antigen generates TAP-dependent and -independent epitopes triggering optimised T-cell responses toward immune-escaped tumours

  • Aurélie Durgeau,
  • Yasemin Virk,
  • Gwendoline Gros,
  • Elodie Voilin,
  • Stéphanie Corgnac,
  • Fayçal Djenidi,
  • Jérôme Salmon,
  • Julien Adam,
  • Vincent de Montpréville,
  • Pierre Validire,
  • Soldano Ferrone,
  • Salem Chouaib,
  • Alexander Eggermont,
  • Jean-Charles Soria,
  • François Lemonnier,
  • Eric Tartour,
  • Nathalie Chaput,
  • Benjamin Besse,
  • Fathia Mami-Chouaib

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07603-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Tumours can escape CD8 T-cell immunity by down-regulating antigen presentation machinery components, such as TAP. Here the authors describe tumour antigenic peptides processed by TAP-independent and -dependent pathways and show in mouse models that these peptides can be exploited to induce antitumor T-cell activity when TAP expression is downregulated.