Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Human endogenous retroviruses form a reservoir of T cell targets in hematological cancers

  • Sunil Kumar Saini,
  • Andreas Due Ørskov,
  • Anne-Mette Bjerregaard,
  • Ashwin Unnikrishnan,
  • Staffan Holmberg-Thydén,
  • Annie Borch,
  • Kathrine Valentini Jensen,
  • Govardhan Anande,
  • Amalie Kai Bentzen,
  • Andrea Marion Marquard,
  • Tripti Tamhane,
  • Marianne Bach Treppendahl,
  • Anne Ortved Gang,
  • Inge Høgh Dufva,
  • Zoltan Szallasi,
  • Nicola Ternette,
  • Anders Gorm Pedersen,
  • Aron Charles Eklund,
  • John Pimanda,
  • Kirsten Grønbæk,
  • Sine Reker Hadrup

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19464-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Human endogenous retroviruses (HERV) normally remain quiescent, but can be reactivated by malignant transformation. Here the authors find, via HERV peptide library testing and tetramer validation, more profound HERV transcription and associated T cell recognition in myeloid cancer patients to implicate HERVs as potential therapeutic targets.