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2007: Singh Reshma; Paterson Yvonne
Immunoediting sculpts tumor epitopes during immunotherapy.
Cancer research 2007;67(5):1887-92.
Immunoediting of tumor-associated antigens occurs in response to immune pressure. We show that the mutation of residues within epitopes of HER-2/neu leads to the outgrowth of autochthonous tumors after immunizing HER-2/neu transgenic mice with Listeria monocytogenes therapeutic vaccines expressing fragments of HER-2/neu. Three of these vaccines target the extracellular domain (LmLLO-EC1, LmLLO-EC2, and LmLLO-EC3), and two of these vaccines target the intracellular domain (Lm-LLO-IC1 and Lm-LLO-IC2). Mutations occurred in the regions of the HER-2/neu molecule targeted by the Listeria strain expressing that region, which suggests that the rate of generation of escape mutants was a significant factor in the efficacy of each vaccine. A longer delay in the onset of tumors after immunotherapy occurred with the vaccine that targeted the kinase domain. We verified that the mutations in this domain occurred within novel CD8(+) T-cell epitopes, and that the mutation of these residues abrogated CTL responses to these epitopes. The long delay in the onset of tumors after immunotherapy targeting the kinase domain may be because this region of HER-2/neu cannot undergo extensive mutations without impairing its ability to signal cell growth.

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