PMID- 30897713 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190712 LR - 20200225 IS - 1422-0067 (Electronic) IS - 1422-0067 (Linking) VI - 20 IP - 6 DP - 2019 Mar 20 TI - Antigen Targets for the Development of Immunotherapies in Leukemia. LID - 10.3390/ijms20061397 [doi] LID - 1397 AB - Immunotherapeutic approaches, including allogeneic stem cell transplantation and donor lymphocyte infusion, have significantly improved the prognosis of leukemia patients. Further efforts are now focusing on the development of immunotherapies that are able to target leukemic cells more specifically, comprising monoclonal antibodies, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, and dendritic cell- or peptide-based vaccination strategies. One main prerequisite for such antigen-specific approaches is the selection of suitable target structures on leukemic cells. In general, the targets for anti-cancer immunotherapies can be divided into two groups: (1) T-cell epitopes relying on the presentation of peptides via human leukocyte antigen (HLA) molecules and (2) surface structures, which are HLA-independently expressed on cancer cells. This review discusses the most promising tumor antigens as well as the underlying discovery and selection strategies for the development of anti-leukemia immunotherapies. FAU - Bauer, Jens AU - Bauer J AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3731-2385 AD - Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. j.bauer@uni-tuebingen.de. AD - Institute for Cell Biology, Department of Immunology, University of Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. j.bauer@uni-tuebingen.de. FAU - Nelde, Annika AU - Nelde A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8504-8481 AD - Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. annika.nelde@uni-tuebingen.de. AD - Institute for Cell Biology, Department of Immunology, University of Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. annika.nelde@uni-tuebingen.de. FAU - Bilich, Tatjana AU - Bilich T AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8107-0419 AD - Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. tatjana.bilich@uni-tuebingen.de. AD - Institute for Cell Biology, Department of Immunology, University of Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. tatjana.bilich@uni-tuebingen.de. FAU - Walz, Juliane S AU - Walz JS AD - Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. juliane.walz@med.uni-tuebingen.de. LA - eng GR - DFG STI 704/1-1/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/ GR - Nr.2016.177.1/Wilhelm Sander-Stiftung/ PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20190320 PL - Switzerland TA - Int J Mol Sci JT - International journal of molecular sciences JID - 101092791 RN - 0 (Antigens) RN - 0 (Peptides) SB - IM MH - Antigens/*immunology MH - Humans MH - Immunotherapy/*methods MH - Leukemia/immunology/metabolism/*therapy MH - Peptides/immunology MH - T-Lymphocytes/immunology/metabolism PMC - PMC6471800 OTO - NOTNLM OT - HLA OT - T cell OT - antigen OT - epitope OT - immunotherapy OT - leukemia OT - peptide OT - target OT - vaccination COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2019/03/23 06:00 MHDA- 2019/07/13 06:00 PMCR- 2019/03/01 CRDT- 2019/03/23 06:00 PHST- 2019/02/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/03/15 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/03/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/03/23 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/03/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/07/13 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - ijms20061397 [pii] AID - ijms-20-01397 [pii] AID - 10.3390/ijms20061397 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Int J Mol Sci. 2019 Mar 20;20(6):1397. doi: 10.3390/ijms20061397.