Targeting the tumor mutanome for personalized vaccination therapy

Oncoimmunology. 2012 Aug 1;1(5):768-769. doi: 10.4161/onci.19727.

Abstract

Next generation sequencing enables identification of immunogenic tumor mutations targetable by individualized vaccines. In the B16F10 melanoma system as pre-clinical proof-of-concept model, we found a total of 563 non-synonymous expressed somatic mutations. Of the mutations we tested, one third were immunogenic. Immunization conferred in vivo tumor control, qualifying mutated epitopes as source for effective vaccines.