@article{5f66d4372fa84045bdda5d1abd75cdbb,
title = "Targeting of multiple tumor-associated antigens by individual T cell receptors during successful cancer immunotherapy",
abstract = "The T cells of the immune system can target tumors and clear solid cancers following tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy. We used combinatorial peptide libraries and a proteomic database to reveal the antigen specificities of persistent cancer-specific T cell receptors (TCRs) following successful TIL therapy for stage IV malignant melanoma. Remarkably, individual TCRs could target multiple different tumor types via the HLA A∗02:01-restricted epitopes EAAGIGILTV, LLLGIGILVL, and NLSALGIFST from Melan A, BST2, and IMP2, respectively. Atomic structures of a TCR bound to all three antigens revealed the importance of the shared x-x-x-A/G-I/L-G-I-x-x-x recognition motif. Multi-epitope targeting allows individual T cells to attack cancer in several ways simultaneously. Such {"}multipronged{"} T cells exhibited superior recognition of cancer cells compared with conventional T cell recognition of individual epitopes, making them attractive candidates for the development of future immunotherapies.",
keywords = "Antigens, Neoplasm/metabolism, Epitopes, Immunotherapy, Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating, Neoplasms/immunology, Proteomics, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism",
author = "Garry Dolton and Cristina Rius and Aaron Wall and Barbara Szomolay and Valentina Bianchi and Galloway, {Sarah A E} and Hasan, {Md Samiul} and Th{\'e}o Morin and Caillaud, {Marine E} and Thomas, {Hannah L} and Sarah Theaker and Tan, {Li Rong} and Anna Fuller and Katie Topley and Mateusz Legut and Meriem Attaf and Hopkins, {Jade R} and Enas Behiry and Joanna Zabkiewicz and Caroline Alvares and Angharad Lloyd and Amber Rogers and Peter Henley and Christopher Fegan and Oliver Ottmann and Stephen Man and Crowther, {Michael D} and Marco Donia and Svane, {Inge Marie} and Cole, {David K} and Brown, {Paul E} and Pierre Rizkallah and Sewell, {Andrew K}",
note = "Copyright {\textcopyright} 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.",
year = "2023",
month = aug,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1016/j.cell.2023.06.020",
language = "English",
volume = "186",
pages = "3333--3349.e27",
journal = "Cell",
issn = "0092-8674",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
number = "16",
}