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Peptide-TLR-7/8a conjugate vaccines chemically programmed for nanoparticle self-assembly enhance CD8 T-cell immunity to tumor antigens.

ABSTRACT: Personalized cancer vaccines targeting patient-specific neoantigens are a promising cancer treatment modality; however, neoantigen physicochemical variability can present challenges to manufacturing personalized cancer vaccines in an optimal format for inducing anticancer T cells. Here, we developed a vaccine platform (SNP-7/8a) based on charge-modified peptide-TLR-7/8a conjugates that are chemically programmed to self-assemble into nanoparticles of uniform size (~20?nm) irrespective of the peptide antigen composition. This approach provided precise loading of diverse peptide neoantigens linked to TLR-7/8a (adjuvant) in nanoparticles, which increased uptake by and activation of antigen-presenting cells that promote T-cell immunity. Vaccination of mice with SNP-7/8a using predicted neoantigens (n?=?179) from three tumor models induced CD8 T cells against ~50% of neoantigens with high predicted MHC-I binding affinity and led to enhanced tumor clearance. SNP-7/8a delivering in silico-designed mock neoantigens also induced CD8 T cells in nonhuman primates. Altogether, SNP-7/8a is a generalizable approach for codelivering peptide antigens and adjuvants in nanoparticles for inducing anticancer T-cell immunity.

SUBMITTER: Lynn GM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7065950 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Peptide-TLR-7/8a conjugate vaccines chemically programmed for nanoparticle self-assembly enhance CD8 T-cell immunity to tumor antigens.

Lynn Geoffrey M GM Sedlik Christine C Baharom Faezzah F Zhu Yaling Y Ramirez-Valdez Ramiro A RA Coble Vincent L VL Tobin Kennedy K Nichols Sarah R SR Itzkowitz Yaakov Y Zaidi Neeha N Gammon Joshua M JM Blobel Nicolas J NJ Denizeau Jordan J de la Rochere Philippe P Francica Brian J BJ Decker Brennan B Maciejewski Mateusz M Cheung Justin J Yamane Hidehiro H Smelkinson Margery G MG Francica Joseph R JR Laga Richard R Bernstock Joshua D JD Seymour Leonard W LW Drake Charles G CG Jewell Christopher M CM Lantz Olivier O Piaggio Eliane E Ishizuka Andrew S AS Seder Robert A RA

Nature biotechnology 20200113 3

Personalized cancer vaccines targeting patient-specific neoantigens are a promising cancer treatment modality; however, neoantigen physicochemical variability can present challenges to manufacturing personalized cancer vaccines in an optimal format for inducing anticancer T cells. Here, we developed a vaccine platform (SNP-7/8a) based on charge-modified peptide-TLR-7/8a conjugates that are chemically programmed to self-assemble into nanoparticles of uniform size (~20 nm) irrespective of the pept ...[more]

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Peptide-TLR-7/8a conjugate vaccines chemically programmed for nanoparticle self-assembly enhance CD8 T-cell immunity to tumor antigens.

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Peptide-TLR-7/8a conjugate vaccines chemically programmed for nanoparticle self-assembly enhance CD8 T-cell immunity to tumor antigens.

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