Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Direct identification of clinically relevant neoepitopes presented on native human melanoma tissue by mass spectrometry

  • Michal Bassani-Sternberg,
  • Eva Bräunlein,
  • Richard Klar,
  • Thomas Engleitner,
  • Pavel Sinitcyn,
  • Stefan Audehm,
  • Melanie Straub,
  • Julia Weber,
  • Julia Slotta-Huspenina,
  • Katja Specht,
  • Marc E. Martignoni,
  • Angelika Werner,
  • Rüdiger Hein,
  • Dirk H. Busch,
  • Christian Peschel,
  • Roland Rad,
  • Jürgen Cox,
  • Matthias Mann,
  • Angela M. Krackhardt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13404
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Neoantigens determine anti-cancer immunoreactivity and are important functional targets for immunotherapy. Here, the authors use deep mass spectrometry to characterize neoepitopes from human melanoma tissue and show the presence of tumour-reactive T cells with specificity for selected neoantigens.