Shared HLA-Bound Neoepitopes Are New Targets for Pancreatic Cancer Immunotherapy.

Yuan, Hao; Chen, Qun; Jiang, Kuirong; Houchen, Courtney W; Zhang, Yuqing; Li, Min · Clin Cancer Res · 2025

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The shared HLA-bound neoepitopes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) represent a novel class of noncanonical antigens with single amino acid substitutions resulting from translational errors. These peptides, shared across patients with PDAC, showed higher immunogenicity than wild-type counterparts, offering potential candidates for specific immunotherapy development in PDAC. See related article by Zhang et al., p. 1956.

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