Tumor exomes provide comprehensive information on mutated, over-expressed genes and aberrant splicing, which can be exploited for personalized cancer immunotherapy. Of particular interest are mutated tumor antigen T cell epitopes, because neoepitope specific T cells often are tumoricidal. However, identifying tumor-specific T cell epitopes is a major challenge. A widely used strategy relies on initial prediction of human leukocyte antigen binding peptides by in silico algorithms, but the predictive power of this approach is unclear. Here, we used the human tumor antigen NY ESO 1 (ESO) and the human leukocyte antigen variant HLA-A*0201 (A2) as a model and predicted in silico the 41 highest-affinity, A2 binding 8 to11mer peptides and assessed their binding, kinetic complex stability, and immunogenicity in A2-transgenic mice and on peripheral blood mononuclear cells from ESO-vaccinated melanoma patients. We found that nineteen of the peptides strongly bound to A2, ten of which formed stable A2-peptide complexes and induced CD8+ T cells in A2-transgenic mice. However, only five of the peptides induced cognate T cells in humans; these peptides exhibited strong binding and complex stability and contained multiple large hydrophobic and aromatic amino acids. These results were not predicted by in silico algorithms and provide new clues to improving T-cell epitope identification. In conclusion, our findings indicate that only a small fraction of in silico predicted A2-binding ESO peptides are immunogenic in humans, namely those that have high peptide-binding strength and complex stability. This observation highlights the need for improving in silico predictions of peptide immunogenicity.
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