Human preprocalcitonin self-antigen generates TAP-dependent and -independent epitopes triggering optimised T-cell responses toward immune-escaped tumours

Tumours can escape CD8 T-cell immunity by down-regulating antigen presentation machinery components, such as TAP. Here the authors describe tumour antigenic peptides processed by TAP-independent and -dependent pathways and show in mouse models that these peptides can be exploited to induce antitumor...

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Main Authors: Aurélie Durgeau, Yasemin Virk, Gwendoline Gros, Elodie Voilin, Stéphanie Corgnac, Fayçal Djenidi, Jérôme Salmon, Julien Adam, Vincent de Montpréville, Pierre Validire, Soldano Ferrone, Salem Chouaib, Alexander Eggermont, Jean-Charles Soria, François Lemonnier, Eric Tartour, Nathalie Chaput, Benjamin Besse, Fathia Mami-Chouaib
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07603-1