Journal article

Shuffling peptides to create T-cell epitopes: Does the immune system play cards

SI Mannering, M So, CM Elso, TWH Kay

Immunology and Cell Biology | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2018

Abstract

For a long time, immunologists have believed that classical CD4+ and CD8+ T cells recognize peptides (referred to as epitopes), derived from protein antigens presented by MHC/HLA class I or II. Over the past 10-15 years, it has become clear that epitopes recognized by CD8+, and more recently CD4+ T cells, can be formed by protein splicing. Here, we review the discovery of spliced epitopes recognized by tumor-specific human CD8+ T cells. We discuss how these epitopes are formed and some of the unusual variants that have been reported. Now, over a decade since the first report, evidence is emerging that spliced CD8+ T-cell epitopes are much more common, and potentially much more important, tha..

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Grants

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

SIM was supported by grants from: The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF 17-2011-527), The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC GNT1123586), Diabetes Australia Research Trust Millennium Award T1D (Y17M1-MANS) and JDRF-Australia Clinical Research Network, Innovation Award. MS was supported by an NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship (APP1094337) and a JDRF-Australia PhD Top-up Scholarship. TK is supported by an NHMRC Program Grant (APP1037321) and JDRF/Department of Health and Aging grants. All authors acknowledge the support from the Operational Infrastructure Support Program of the Victorian Government.