Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Cas9-derived peptides presented by MHC Class II that elicit proliferation of CD4+ T-cells

  • Vijaya L. Simhadri,
  • Louis Hopkins,
  • Joseph R. McGill,
  • Brian R. Duke,
  • Swati Mukherjee,
  • Kate Zhang,
  • Zuben E. Sauna

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25414-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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There have been reports of immune responses against Cas9 which may impair clinical use. Here the authors scan a cohort comparable to the North American population vis-à-vis distribution of MHC-II variants to identify Cas9 peptides presented by MHC-II proteins and can stimulate CD4 + T-cells.