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Antitumor cytotoxic T-cell response induced by a survivin peptide mimic

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Survivin is a tumor-associated antigen with significant potential as a cancer vaccine target. We have identified a survivin peptide mimic containing human MHC class I epitopes and a potential class II ligand that induces a potent antitumor response in C57BL/6 mice with GL261 cerebral gliomas. This peptide is able to elicit both CD8+ CTL and T helper cell responses in C57BL/6 mice. The corresponding region of the human survivin molecule represented by peptide SVN53-67 is 100% homologous to the murine protein, but SVN53-67 is weakly immunogenic in man. We evaluated several amino acid substitutions in putative human MHC I anchor positions in SVN53-67 to identify potential peptide mimics that could provide an enhanced antitumor immune response against human glioma and primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) cells in culture. We evaluated survivin peptides with predicted binding to human HLA-A*0201 antigen using peptide-loaded dendritic cells from PBMC of patients with these malignancies. One alteration (M57) led to binding to HLA-A*0201 with significantly higher affinity. We compared the ability of autologous dendritic cells loaded with SVN53-67 peptide and SVN53-67/M57 in CTL assays against allomatched and autologous, survivin-expressing, human malignant glioma and PCNSL cells. Both SVN53-67 and SVN53-67/M57 produced CTL-mediated killing of malignant target cells; however, SVN53-67/M57 was significantly more effective than SVN53-67. Thus, SVN53-67/M57 may act as a peptide mimic to induce an enhanced antitumor CTL response in tumor patients. The use of SVN53-67/M57 as a cancer vaccine might have application for cancer vaccine therapy.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by NIH 5R21 NS049309-02 (RAF), NIH 5P30 CA16056-29, the Linda Scime Fund of the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation, and the Glioblastoma Multiforme Grant awarded to MJC by the National Brain Tumor Foundation.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA

    Michael J. Ciesielski, Stephan A. Munich, Molly Orton, Tara Barone & Robert A. Fenstermaker

  2. Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA

    Michael J. Ciesielski, Asher Chanan-Khan & Robert A. Fenstermaker

  3. Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA

    Manmeet S. Ahluwalia & Asher Chanan-Khan

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Ciesielski, M.J., Ahluwalia, M.S., Munich, S.A. et al. Antitumor cytotoxic T-cell response induced by a survivin peptide mimic. Cancer Immunol Immunother 59, 1211–1221 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00262-010-0845-x

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