Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Tumor-targeted silencing of the peptide transporter TAP induces potent antitumor immunity

  • Greta Garrido,
  • Brett Schrand,
  • Ailem Rabasa,
  • Agata Levay,
  • Francesca D’Eramo,
  • Alexey Berezhnoy,
  • Shrey Modi,
  • Tal Gefen,
  • Koen Marijt,
  • Elien Doorduijn,
  • Vikas Dudeja,
  • Thorbald van Hall,
  • Eli Gilboa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11728-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The anti-tumour immune response greatly depends on the number of tumour neoantigens. Here the authors show in mouse models that a therapeutic strategy aimed at increasing the number of neoantigens via downregulating TAP, an antigen processing associated protein, enhances anti-tumour immunity and the efficacy of immunotherapy.