title: Overview of mimotopes and related strategies in tumor vaccine development.
abstract: Tumor vaccine has been studied extensively as an alternative or adjuvant therapy in the treatment of malignant tumors in the hope of prolonging the overall survival rates of cancer patients. The efficacy largely relies on the specificity of the target. In the last decade, many antibody epitopes, called mimotopes, have been revealed as candidates through phage-display technology. These mimotopes do not necessarily consist of amino acid sequences that are identical to the native antigen but they do mimic their structure. Tumor vaccines based on these mimotopes have been proposed as an important developing strategy. Some peptide mimotopes have produced encouraging clinical outcomes. Although most studies are still in the preclinical phase, these findings will possibly pave the way for the development of novel mimotope-based tumor vaccines.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Institute of Digestive Disease, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China. zhaolina@fmmu.edu.cn
authors.forename: Lina
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Zhiguo
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Daiming
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fan
mesh_terms: D019496:Cancer Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D019151:Peptide Library; D022223:Vaccines, Subunit / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D019496:Cancer Vaccines; D000939:Epitopes; D019151:Peptide Library; D022223:Vaccines, Subunit