Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Vestigial-like 1 is a shared targetable cancer-placenta antigen expressed by pancreatic and basal-like breast cancers

  • Sherille D. Bradley,
  • Amjad H. Talukder,
  • Ivy Lai,
  • Rebecca Davis,
  • Hector Alvarez,
  • Herve Tiriac,
  • Minying Zhang,
  • Yulun Chiu,
  • Brenda Melendez,
  • Kyle R. Jackson,
  • Arjun Katailiha,
  • Heather M. Sonnemann,
  • Fenge Li,
  • Yaan Kang,
  • Na Qiao,
  • Bih-Fang Pan,
  • Philip L. Lorenzi,
  • Mark Hurd,
  • Elizabeth A. Mittendorf,
  • Christine B. Peterson,
  • Milind Javle,
  • Christopher Bristow,
  • Michael Kim,
  • David A. Tuveson,
  • David Hawke,
  • Scott Kopetz,
  • Robert A. Wolff,
  • Patrick Hwu,
  • Anirban Maitra,
  • Jason Roszik,
  • Cassian Yee,
  • Gregory Lizée

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19141-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-based immunotherapies can induce tumor regressions by targeting HLA class I-bound tumor-associated peptides. Here, the authors identified a peptide derived from Vestigial-like 1 (VGLL1) as a shared, potentially therapeutic CTL target expressed by multiple cancer types.