PMID- 33968037 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210927 LR - 20210927 IS - 1664-3224 (Electronic) IS - 1664-3224 (Linking) VI - 12 DP - 2021 TI - IFNgamma Modulates the Immunopeptidome of Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells by Enhancing and Diversifying Antigen Processing and Presentation. PG - 645770 LID - 10.3389/fimmu.2021.645770 [doi] LID - 645770 AB - Peptide vaccination remains a viable approach to induce T-cell mediated killing of tumors. To identify potential T-cell targets for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) vaccination, we examined the effect of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interferon-gamma (IFNgamma) on the transcriptome, proteome, and immunopeptidome of the TNBC cell line MDA-MB-231. Using high resolution mass spectrometry, we identified a total of 84,131 peptides from 9,647 source proteins presented by human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-I and HLA-II alleles. Treatment with IFNgamma resulted in a remarkable remolding of the immunopeptidome, with only a 34% overlap between untreated and treated cells across the HLA-I immunopeptidome, and expression of HLA-II only detected on treated cells. IFNgamma increased the overall number, diversity, and abundance of peptides contained within the immunopeptidome, as well increasing the coverage of individual source antigens. The suite of peptides displayed under conditions of IFNgamma treatment included many known tumor associated antigens, with the HLA-II repertoire sampling 17 breast cancer associated antigens absent from those sampled by HLA-I molecules. Quantitative analysis of the transcriptome (10,248 transcripts) and proteome (6,783 proteins) of these cells revealed 229 common proteins and transcripts that were differentially expressed. Most of these represented downstream targets of IFNgamma signaling including components of the antigen processing machinery such as tapasin and HLA molecules. However, these changes in protein expression did not explain the dramatic modulation of the immunopeptidome following IFNgamma treatment. These results demonstrate the high degree of plasticity in the immunopeptidome of TNBC cells following cytokine stimulation and provide evidence that under pro-inflammatory conditions a greater variety of potential HLA-I and HLA-II vaccine targets are unveiled to the immune system. This has important implications for the development of personalized cancer vaccination strategies. CI - Copyright (c) 2021 Goncalves, Mullan, Duscharla, Ayala, Croft, Faridi and Purcell. FAU - Goncalves, Gabriel AU - Goncalves G AD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia. FAU - Mullan, Kerry A AU - Mullan KA AD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia. FAU - Duscharla, Divya AU - Duscharla D AD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia. FAU - Ayala, Rochelle AU - Ayala R AD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia. FAU - Croft, Nathan P AU - Croft NP AD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia. FAU - Faridi, Pouya AU - Faridi P AD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia. FAU - Purcell, Anthony W AU - Purcell AW AD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20210422 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Immunol JT - Frontiers in immunology JID - 101560960 RN - 0 (Antigens, Neoplasm) RN - 0 (Cancer Vaccines) RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (Peptides) RN - 82115-62-6 (Interferon-gamma) SB - IM MH - Antigen Presentation/*drug effects MH - Antigens, Neoplasm/immunology MH - Cancer Vaccines/immunology MH - Cell Line, Tumor MH - Female MH - HLA Antigens/*immunology MH - Humans MH - Interferon-gamma/*pharmacology MH - Peptides/immunology MH - Proteomics MH - Transcriptome MH - Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms/*immunology PMC - PMC8100505 OTO - NOTNLM OT - cytokine stimulation OT - human leukocyte antigen OT - immunopeptidomics OT - mass spectrometry OT - proteomics OT - transcriptomics OT - triple negative breast cancer COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2021/05/11 06:00 MHDA- 2021/09/28 06:00 PMCR- 2021/01/01 CRDT- 2021/05/10 06:21 PHST- 2020/12/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/03/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/05/10 06:21 [entrez] PHST- 2021/05/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/09/28 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fimmu.2021.645770 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Immunol. 2021 Apr 22;12:645770. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.645770. eCollection 2021.