High peptide dose vaccination promotes the early selection of tumor antigen-specific CD8 T-cells of enhanced functional competence

L Carretero-Iglesia, B Couturaud… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
avidity of vaccine-induced antigen-specific CD8 T-cells from melanoma patients after multiple
monthly vaccine injections. We found that high … selection of CD8-independent TCRs over …

The quest for the best: how TCR affinity, avidity, and functional avidity affect TCR-engineered T-cell antitumor responses

D Campillo-Davo, D Flumens, E Lion - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tetramers bearing a mutation in the CD8 binding site selectively bind to higher avidity T cells,
but bind not to low avidityavidity or may not even identify important antigen-specific TCR …

Overall avidity declines in TCR repertoires during latent CMV but not EBV infection

B Couturaud, B Doix, L Carretero-Iglesia… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
avidity can drive the clonal evolution of virus antigen-specific CD8 T cells, and how this process
is determined … showing the proportion of CD8-independent TCRαβ clonotypes, classified …

[HTML][HTML] Generation and characterization of HLA-A2 transgenic mice expressing the human TCR 1G4 specific for the HLA-A2 restricted NY-ESO-1157-165 tumor …

E Shenderov, M Kandasamy, U Gileadi… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… the detailed role of affinity and avidity in shaping the quality of … -week-old mice were identified
using Tetrameric A2Kb/NY-ESO… transfer experiments indicate that antigen specific CD4 + T …

Identification of Claudin 6-specific HLA class I-and HLA class II-restricted T cell receptors for cellular immunotherapy in ovarian cancer

J Matsuzaki, S Lele, K Odunsi, T Tsuji - Oncoimmunology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… a large amount of cancer antigen-specific effector T cells that … tetramer staining ( Figure
4c ). Using the CLDN6 132–140 peptide, we tested TCR avidity against the peptide and found

CD8 coreceptor engagement of MR1 enhances antigen responsiveness by human MAIT and other MR1-reactive T cells

MNT Souter, W Awad, S Li, TJ Pediongco… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
… Using MR1-5-OP-RU tetramers, we determined the frequency … , all tetramers stained the
CD8αα cell line with a higher intensity … rate was higher, and overall avidity of MR1 tetramers was …

Recombinant single-cycle influenza virus with exchangeable pseudotypes allows repeated immunization to augment anti-tumour immunity with immune checkpoint …

M Kandasamy, U Gileadi, P Rijal, TK Tan, LN Lee… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
… infection elicits a strong antigen- specific CTL response. We … We found that intranasal or
intramuscular immunization with … 1- specific CTL responses were analysed by tetramer staining. …

CBFB-MYH11 fusion neoantigen enables T cell recognition and killing of acute myeloid leukemia

MA Biernacki, KA Foster, KB Woodward… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
… (38) have successfully identified antigen-specific T cells from … well as measured by pHLA
tetramer staining (Figure 7A). All … cell clones we identified varied in their functional avidity, with …

NK receptor signaling lowers TCR activation threshold, enhancing selective recognition of cancer cells by TAA-specific CTLs

B Dong, N Obermajer, T Tsuji, J Matsuzaki… - Cancer Immunology …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
… In this study, we found that CTL expression of the NK … regulate TCR functional avidity of
human TAA-specific CTLs, allowing … CTLs were sorted by flow cytometry based on the staining of …

Recombinant single-cycle influenza virus as a new tool to augment antitumour immunity with immune checkpoint inhibitors

M Kandasamy, U Gileadi, P Rijal, TK Tan, LN Lee… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
… FLU is highly efficient in inducing antigen specific CD8+T cell … of antigen-specific cytotoxic
T cells but also their avidity to … We found that intranasal or intramuscular immunization with …