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Reduced Breast Tumor Growth after Immunization with a Tumor-Restricted MUC1 Glycopeptide Conjugated to Tetanus Toxoid.
Horst KunzAnne-sophie HeimesNikola GaidzikNatascha StergiouPol BeseniusSarah DietzenMarcus SchmidtEdgar SchmittJörg JäkelWalburgis Brennersubject
0301 basic medicineCancer ResearchImmunologyMice TransgenicTriple Negative Breast NeoplasmsCancer Vaccines03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineImmune systemAntigenCell Line TumorTetanus ToxoidMedicineAnimalsHumansskin and connective tissue diseasesMUC1Vaccines Syntheticbiologybusiness.industryMucin-1ToxoidGlycopeptidesAntibodies MonoclonalMammary Neoplasms ExperimentalMiddle AgedTumor antigen030104 developmental biologyImmunizationTumor progression030220 oncology & carcinogenesisImmunoglobulin Gbiology.proteinCancer researchFemaleAntibodybusinessdescription
Abstract Preventive vaccination against tumor-associated endogenous antigens is considered to be an attractive strategy for the induction of a curative immune response concomitant with a long-lasting immunologic memory. The mucin MUC1 is a promising tumor antigen, as its tumor-associated form differs from the glycoprotein form expressed on healthy cells. Due to aberrant glycosylation in tumor cells, the specific peptide epitopes in its backbone are accessible and can be bound by antibodies induced by vaccination. Breast cancer patients develop per se only low levels of T cells and antibodies recognizing tumor-associated MUC1, and clinical trials with tumor-associated MUC1 yielded unsatisfactory therapeutic effects, indicating an urgent need to improve humoral immunity against this tumor entity. Herein, we demonstrate that preventive vaccination against tumor-associated human MUC1 results in a specific humoral immune response, a slowdown of tumor progression and an increase in survival of breast tumor–bearing mice. For preventive vaccination, we used a synthetic vaccine containing a tumor-associated glycopeptide structure of human MUC1 coupled to Tetanus Toxoid. The glycopeptide consists of a 22mer huMUC1 peptide with two immune dominant regions (PDTR and GSTA), glycosylated with the sialylated carbohydrate STN on serine-17. PyMT (polyomavirus middle T-antigen) and human MUC1 double-transgenic mice expressing human tumor-associated MUC1 on breast tumor tissue served as a preclinical breast cancer model.
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2018-04-17 | Cancer immunology research |