Sensitive identification of neoantigens and cognate TCRs in human solid tumors.

Arnaud, Marion; Chiffelle, Johanna; Genolet, Raphael; Navarro Rodrigo, Blanca; Perez, Marta A S; Huber, Florian; Magnin, Morgane; Nguyen-Ngoc, Tu et al. · Nat Biotechnol · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The identification of patient-specific tumor antigens is complicated by the low frequency of T cells specific for each tumor antigen. Here we describe NeoScreen, a method that enables the sensitive identification of rare tumor (neo)antigens and of cognate T cell receptors (TCRs) expressed by tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. T cells transduced with tumor antigen-specific TCRs identified by NeoScreen mediate regression of established tumors in patient-derived xenograft mice.

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