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HUMAN CLEC9A ANTIBODIES DELIVER NY-ESO-1 ANTIGEN TO CD141 DENDRITIC CELLS TO ACTIVATE NAIVE AND MEMORY NY-ESO-1-SPECIFIC CD8 T CELLS

Kelly-Anne Masterman, Oscar Haigh, Kirsteen Tullett, Ingrid Leal-Rojas, Carina Walpole, Frances Pearson, Jonathon Cebon, Christopher Schmidt, Liam O'Brien, Nikita Rosendahl, Ghazal Daraj, Irina Caminschi, Eric Gschweng, Roger Hollis, Donald Kohn, Mireille Lahoud, Kristen Radford, Kristen Radford

JOURNAL FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY OF CANCER | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2020

Abstract

Background Dendritic cells (DC) are crucial for the efficacy of cancer vaccines, but current vaccines do not harness the key cDC1 subtype required for effective CD8+ T cell mediated tumor immune responses. Vaccine immunogenicity could be enhanced by specific delivery of immunogenic tumor antigens to CD141+ DC, the human cDC1 equivalent. CD141+ DC exclusively express the C-type-lectin-like receptor CLEC9A, which is important for the regulation of CD8+ T cell responses. This study developed a new vaccine that harnesses a human anti-CLEC9A antibody to specifically deliver the immunogenic tumor antigen, NY-ESO-1 to human CD141+ DC. The ability of the CLEC9A-NY-ESO-1 antibody to activate NY-ESO-..

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