Induced pluripotent stem cells display a distinct set of MHC I-associated peptides shared by human cancers

A Apavaloaei, L Hesnard, MP Hardy, B Benabdallah… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Previous reports showed that mouse vaccination with pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) induces
durable anti-tumor immune responses via T cell recognition of some elusive oncofetal …

[HTML][HTML] Autologous iPSC-based vaccines elicit anti-tumor responses in vivo

NG Kooreman, Y Kim, PE de Almeida, V Termglinchan… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Cancer cells and embryonic tissues share a number of cellular and molecular properties,
suggesting that induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) may be harnessed to elicit anti-tumor …

Evidence of antitumor and antimetastatic potential of induced pluripotent stem cell-based vaccines in cancer immunotherapy

M Kishi, A Asgarova, C Desterke, D Chaker… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cancer is maintained by the activity of a rare population of self-renewing “cancer stem
cells”(CSCs), which are resistant to conventional therapies. CSCs over-express several …

[HTML][HTML] Antitumor effects of iPSC-based cancer vaccine in pancreatic cancer

X Ouyang, Y Liu, Y Zhou, J Guo, TT Wei, C Liu, B Lee… - Stem cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and cancer cells share cellular similarities and
transcriptomic profiles. Here, we show that an iPSC-based cancer vaccine, comprised of …

Strategies for cancer immunotherapy using induced pluripotency stem cells-based vaccines

B Bernardes de Jesus, BM Neves, M Ferreira… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Effective cancer immunotherapies, with the objective to boost tumor-
specific immune responses, is a game-changer in personalized cancer treatment. In …

Induced pluripotent stem cells as a novel cancer vaccine

L Wang, MD Pegram, JC Wu - Expert Opinion on Biological …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Although many current cancer therapies are effective, the mortality rate globally
is unacceptably high. Cancer remains the second leading cause of death worldwide after …

T cells specific for a TAP-independent self-peptide remain naïve in tumor-bearing mice and are fully exploitable for therapy

EM Doorduijn, M Sluijter, KA Marijt, BJ Querido… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Cancers frequently evade immune-recognition by lowering peptide: MHC-I complexes on
their cell surface. Limited peptide supply due to TAP-deficiency results in such MHC-Ilow …

Spontaneous and therapy-induced immunity to pluripotency genes in humans: clinical implications, opportunities and challenges

MV Dhodapkar, KM Dhodapkar - Cancer immunology, immunotherapy, 2011 - Springer
Recent studies have suggested that the core pathways regulating pluripotency in embryonal
stem cells bear considerable overlap with oncogenesis. Here, we discuss recent insights …

Induced pluripotent stem cell-based cancer vaccines

X Ouyang, ML Telli, JC Wu - Frontiers in Immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Over a century ago, it was reported that immunization with embryonic/fetal tissue could lead
to the rejection of transplanted tumors in animals. Subsequent studies demonstrated that …

Generation of hypoimmunogenic T cells from genetically engineered allogeneic human induced pluripotent stem cells

B Wang, S Iriguchi, M Waseda, N Ueda… - Nature biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
Avoiding the immune rejection of transplanted T cells is central to the success of allogeneic
cancer immunotherapies. One solution to protecting T-cell grafts from immune rejection …