Immunotherapy-induced antibodies to endogenous retroviral envelope glycoprotein confer tumor protection in mice

<jats:p>Following curative immunotherapy of B16F10 tumors, ~60% of mice develop a strong antibody response against cell-surface tumor antigens. Their antisera confer prophylactic protection against intravenous challenge with B16F10 cells, and also cross-react with syngeneic and allogeneic tumo...

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Main Authors: Kang, Byong H, Momin, Noor, Moynihan, Kelly D, Silva, Murillo, Li, Yingzhong, Irvine, Darrell J, Wittrup, K Dane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135528
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Summary:<jats:p>Following curative immunotherapy of B16F10 tumors, ~60% of mice develop a strong antibody response against cell-surface tumor antigens. Their antisera confer prophylactic protection against intravenous challenge with B16F10 cells, and also cross-react with syngeneic and allogeneic tumor cell lines MC38, EL.4, 4T1, and CT26. We identified the envelope glycoprotein (env) of a murine endogenous retrovirus (ERV) as the antigen accounting for the majority of this humoral response. A systemically administered anti-env monoclonal antibody cloned from such a response protects against tumor challenge, and prophylactic vaccination against the env protein protects a majority of naive mice from tumor establishment following subcutaneous inoculation with B16F10 cells. These results suggest the potential for effective prophylactic vaccination against analogous HERV-K env expressed in numerous human cancers.</jats:p>