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Novel peptides and combination of peptides for use in immunotherapy against various tumors

Inactive Publication Date: 2016-09-29
IMMATICS BIOTECHNOLOGIES GMBH
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The patent text describes a method for selecting peptides as cancer therapy targets based on their over-presentation on primary tumor tissues compared to normal tissues and their corresponding gene expression profile. This method helps to identify targets that may be hard to detect by routine screening approaches and increases safety by reducing the risk of targeting peptides with essential functions in vital organs. The method can also assist pathologists in diagnosis of cancer by detecting specific peptides on tissue samples. The presence of certain peptides can be used as a biomarker for various types of cancer and can aid in classification or sub-classification of diseased tissues.

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Particularly, some peptides are hard to detect by mass spectrometry, either due to their chemical properties or to their low copy numbers on cells, and a screening approach focusing on detection of peptide presentation may fail to identify these targets.
Routine mass spectrometry analysis is not sensitive enough to assess target coverage on the peptide level.

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Identification and Quantitation of Tumor Associated Peptides Presented on the Cell Surface

Tissue Samples

[0390]Patients' tumor tissues were obtained from Asterand (Detroit, USA and Royston, Herts, UK); Val d'Hebron University Hospital (Barcelona); BioServe (Beltsville, Md., USA); Center for cancer immune therapy (CCIT), Herlev Hospital (Herlev); Geneticist Inc. (Glendale, Calif., USA); University Hospital of Geneva; University Hospital of Heidelberg; University Hospital of Munich; Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (KPUM); Osaka City University (OCU); ProteoGenex Inc., (Culver City, Calif., USA); University Hospital of Tübingen. Normal tissues were obtained from Bio-Options Inc., CA, USA; BioServe, Beltsville, Md., USA; Capital BioScience Inc., Rockville, Md., USA; Geneticist Inc., Glendale, Calif., USA; University Hospital of Geneva; University Hospital of Heidelberg; University Hospital Munich; ProteoGenex Inc., Culver City, Calif., USA; University Hospital of Tübingen. Writt...

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Expression Profiling of Genes Encoding the Peptides of the Invention

[0394]Over-presentation or specific presentation of a peptide on tumor cells compared to normal cells is sufficient for its usefulness in immunotherapy, and some peptides are tumor-specific despite their source protein occurring also in normal tissues. Still, mRNA expression profiling adds an additional level of safety in selection of peptide targets for immunotherapies. Especially for therapeutic options with high safety risks, such as affinity-matured TCRs, the ideal target peptide will be derived from a protein that is unique to the tumor and not found on normal tissues. For this invention, normal tissue expression of all source genes was shown to be minimal based on the above-described database of RNA expression data covering about 3000 normal tissue samples. Further RNA analyses of normal and tumor tissues were added in case of some cancer entities (HCC, CRC, GB, GC, NSCLC, PC, RCC, BPH / PCA) to estimate the tar...

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In Vitro Immunogenicity of MHC Class I Presented Peptides

[0403]In order to obtain information regarding the immunogenicity of the TUMAPs of the present invention, the inventors performed investigations using an in vitro T-cell priming assay based on repeated stimulations of CD8+ T cells with artificial antigen presenting cells (aAPCs) loaded with peptide / MHC complexes and anti-CD28 antibody. This way the inventors could show immunogenicity for 47 HLA-A*0201 restricted TUMAPs of the invention so far, demonstrating that these peptides are T-cell epitopes against which CD8+ precursor T cells exist in humans (Table 6A and B).

In Vitro Priming of CD8+ T Cells

[0404]In order to perform in vitro stimulations by artificial antigen presenting cells loaded with peptide-MHC complex (pMHC) and anti-CD28 antibody, the inventors first isolated CD8+ T cells from fresh HLA-A*02 leukapheresis products via positive selection using CD8 microbeads (Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany) of healthy ...

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Abstract

The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 62 / 139,189, filed Mar. 27, 2015, and Great Britain Application No. 1505305.1, filed Mar. 27, 2015, the content of each these applications is herein incorporated by reference in their entirety.REFERENCE TO SEQUENCE LISTING SUBMITTED AS A COMPLIANT ASCII TEXT FILE (.TXT)[0002]Pursuant to the EFS-Web legal framework and 37 CFR §§1.821-825 (see MPEP §2442.03(a)), a Sequence Listing in the form of an ASCII-compliant text file (entitled “2912919-042009_SEQ_LIST.txt,” created on Mar. 28, 2016, and 44,970 bytes in size) is submitted concurrently with the instant application, and the entire contents of the Sequence Listing are incorporated herein by reference.FIELD[0003]The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present i...

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IPC IPC(8): A61K39/00C07K14/74C07K14/725C07K16/18C07K16/30C07K16/28C07K14/47C12N5/0783
CPCA61K39/0011C07K14/47C07K14/70539C12N5/0638C07K16/18C07K2317/34C07K16/2833C07K14/7051C07K2319/40C12N2502/11A61K2039/5158C07K16/30A61P35/00C12N5/0636C12N15/115G01N33/57484C12N2310/16C07K14/4748C12N5/0646C12Q1/6886A61P35/02G01N33/56977G01N33/56972G01N33/505G01N33/5088C07K2317/31C12Q2600/158C12Q2600/106C12N2510/00G01N2333/47G01N2333/7051G01N2333/70539G01N2333/70503G01N2500/10C07K2319/00C07K2319/33C07K2317/24A61K39/001159A61K39/4644A61K39/001148A61K39/001102A61K39/001152A61K39/00A61K39/001154A61K39/001162A61K39/001184A61K39/001103A61K39/4611A61K38/00C07K14/4702C12N9/6491C12Y304/24A61P39/00A61K38/08A01N37/46A61K31/404A61K31/4745A61K31/519A61K31/675A61K38/06A61K38/1774A61K45/06A61K2039/54A61K2039/57A61K2039/572A61K2039/585A61P37/04A61P43/00C07K2319/55C07K2319/60C12N5/0093C12N5/0693A61K2300/00G01N2333/04A61K39/0005C07K7/02C07K7/06G01N33/566C12N2501/998C07K14/001
Inventor MAHR, ANDREAWEINSCHENK, TONISCHOOR, OLIVERFRITSCHE, JENSSINGH, HARPREETSTEVERMANN, LEA
Owner IMMATICS BIOTECHNOLOGIES GMBH
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