[HTML][HTML] A novel peptide targeting Clec9a on dendritic cell for cancer immunotherapy

Z Yan, Y Wu, J Du, G Li, S Wang, W Cao, X Zhou… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Z Yan, Y Wu, J Du, G Li, S Wang, W Cao, X Zhou, C Wu, D Zhang, X Jing, Y Li, H Wang…
Oncotarget, 2016ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen-presenting cells with antigen recognition
molecules on the surface. Clec9a is selectively expressed on mouse CD8a+ DCs and
CD103+ DCs subsets, which are functionally similar to human BDCA3+ DCs. It is reported
that Clec9a is responsible for the antigen cross-presentation of these DC subsets. In the
present study, by using phage display technique, we discovered a novel peptide WH, which
can selectively bind to mouse Flt3L induced Clec9a+ DCs or Clec9a over-expressed HEK …
Abstract
Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen-presenting cells with antigen recognition molecules on the surface. Clec9a is selectively expressed on mouse CD8a+ DCs and CD103+ DCs subsets, which are functionally similar to human BDCA3+ DCs. It is reported that Clec9a is responsible for the antigen cross-presentation of these DC subsets. In the present study, by using phage display technique, we discovered a novel peptide WH, which can selectively bind to mouse Flt3L induced Clec9a+ DCs or Clec9a over-expressed HEK-293T cells. Furthermore, by using computer-aided docking model and mutation assay, we observed that Asp 248 and Trp 250 are two key residues for Clec9a to bind with peptide WH. When coupled with OVA 257-264 epitope, peptide WH can significantly enhance the ability of Clec9a+ DCs to activate OVA-specific CD8+ T cells, which elicit strong ability to secret IFN-γ, express perforin and granzyme B mRNA. In B16-OVA lung metastasis mouse model, WH-OVA 257-264 fusion peptide can also enhance the activation of CD8+ T cells and decrease the lung metastasis loci. All these results suggested that peptide WH could be considered as an antigen delivery carrier targeting Clec9a+ DCs for cancer immunotherapy.
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