SEQUENCE MOTIFS OF HUMAN HER-2 PROTOONCOGENE IMPORTANT FOR PEPTIDE BINDING TO HLA-A2

  • Authors:
    • B FISK
    • B CHESAK
    • MG IOANNIDES
    • JT WHARTON
    • CG IOANNIDES
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  • Published online on: July 1, 1994     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.5.1.51
  • Pages: 51-63
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Abstract

Tumor progression and metastasis are often associated with overexpression of specific cellular proteins. In 1991, we introduced a hypothesis that epitopes of nonmutated overexpressed proteins can be targets of a specific cellular immune response against tumor mediated by T cells (Mol Carcinogen 6: 77-81, 1992) and that, when T cell epitopes are present, distinction between tumor immunity/autoimmunity and unresponsiveness can be predicated on the protein concentration as a limiting factor of epitope supply. In support of this hypothesis, we demonstrated that CTL from patients with ovarian tumors which overexpress HER-2 proto-oncogene can recognize both autologous tumor and synthetic analogs of a specific epitope from HER-2, which was identified based on the convergence of all criteria for selection of HLA-A2 associated epitopes recognized by T cells. In this study, we identified all epitopes in HER-2 containing nonapeptides with HLA-A2 anchors. Of these, analysis of potential amphiphilic sites identified both sequences and specific mutations that positively affected the reactivity of conformationally dependent HLA-A2 specific mAb which served as an indication of HER-2 peptide binding. We also report the in vitro induction of cellular responses to these peptides by PBMC from healthy HLA-A2+ volunteers as an indication of their ability to stimulate/ restimulate pre-existing T cell responses to HER-2. The peptides induced proliferative responses in one of four donors tested and CTL responses (one of three peptides tested in two of three donors). This strategy may allow selection of immunogenic HER-2 peptides and elucidation of mechanisms operating in induction of tolerance to defined epitopes on self-proteins.

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July 1994
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FISK B, CHESAK B, IOANNIDES M, WHARTON J and IOANNIDES C: SEQUENCE MOTIFS OF HUMAN HER-2 PROTOONCOGENE IMPORTANT FOR PEPTIDE BINDING TO HLA-A2. Int J Oncol 5: 51-63, 1994
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FISK, B., CHESAK, B., IOANNIDES, M., WHARTON, J., & IOANNIDES, C. (1994). SEQUENCE MOTIFS OF HUMAN HER-2 PROTOONCOGENE IMPORTANT FOR PEPTIDE BINDING TO HLA-A2. International Journal of Oncology, 5, 51-63. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.5.1.51
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FISK, B., CHESAK, B., IOANNIDES, M., WHARTON, J., IOANNIDES, C."SEQUENCE MOTIFS OF HUMAN HER-2 PROTOONCOGENE IMPORTANT FOR PEPTIDE BINDING TO HLA-A2". International Journal of Oncology 5.1 (1994): 51-63.
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FISK, B., CHESAK, B., IOANNIDES, M., WHARTON, J., IOANNIDES, C."SEQUENCE MOTIFS OF HUMAN HER-2 PROTOONCOGENE IMPORTANT FOR PEPTIDE BINDING TO HLA-A2". International Journal of Oncology 5, no. 1 (1994): 51-63. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.5.1.51