ena-STUDY-The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center-22-09-2020-23:57:41:312-200
VESTIGIAL-LIKE 1 IS A SHARED TARGETABLE CANCER-PLACENTA ANTIGEN  EXPRESSED BY PANCREATIC AND BASAL-LIKE BREAST CANCERS
Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-based cancer immunotherapies have shown great promise for inducing clinical regression by targeting tumor-associated antigens (TAA). To expand the TAA landscape of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), we performed tandem mass spectrometry analysis of HLA class I-bound peptides from tumor specimens of 35 PDAC patients. This led to the identification of a shared HLA-A*0101 restricted peptide derived from co-transcriptional activator Vestigial-like 1 (VGLL1), a novel putative TAA demonstrating overexpression in multiple tumor types and low or absent transcript expression in essential normal tissues. VGLL1-specific CTLs isolated and expanded from the blood of a male PDAC patient showed the capacity to recognize and kill in an antigen-specific manner a majority of HLA-A*0101 allogeneic tumor cell lines derived not only from PDAC, but also bladder, ovarian, gastric, lung and basal-like breast cancers. Gene expression profiling revealed that VGLL1 is a member of a unique group of cancer-placenta antigens (CPA) that may constitute immunotherapeutic TAA targets for patients with multiple different cancer types.
Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-based cancer immunotherapies have shown great promise for inducing clinical regression by targeting tumor-associated antigens (TAA). To expand the TAA landscape of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), we performed tandem mass spectrometry analysis of HLA class I-bound peptides from tumor specimens of 35 PDAC patients. This led to the identification of a shared HLA-A*0101 restricted peptide derived from co-transcriptional activator Vestigial-like 1 (VGLL1), a novel putative TAA demonstrating overexpression in multiple tumor types and low or absent transcript expression in essential normal tissues. VGLL1-specific CTLs isolated and expanded from the blood of a male PDAC patient showed the capacity to recognize and kill in an antigen-specific manner a majority of HLA-A*0101 allogeneic tumor cell lines derived not only from PDAC, but also bladder, ovarian, gastric, lung and basal-like breast cancers. Gene expression profiling revealed that VGLL1 is a member of a unique group of cancer-placenta antigens (CPA) that may constitute immunotherapeutic TAA targets for patients with multiple different cancer types.