Thousands of novel unannotated proteins expand the MHC I immunopeptidome in cancer
By
Tamara Ouspenskaia,
Travis Law,
Karl R Clauser,
Susan Klaeger,
Siranush Sarkizova,
François Aguet,
Bo Li,
Elena Christian,
Binyamin A. Knisbacher,
Phuong M. Le,
Christina R. Hartigan,
Hasmik Keshishian,
Annie Apffel,
Giacomo Oliveira,
Wandi Zhang,
Yuen Ting Chow,
Zhe Ji,
Irwin Jungreis,
Sachet A. Shukla,
Pavan Bachireddy,
Manolis Kellis,
Gad A. Getz,
Nir Hacohen,
Derin B Keskin,
Steven A Carr,
Catherine J. Wu,
Aviv Regev
Posted 13 Feb 2020
bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2020.02.12.945840
Tumor epitopes – peptides that are presented on surface-bound MHC I proteins - provide targets for cancer immunotherapy and have been identified extensively in the annotated protein-coding regions of the genome. Motivated by the recent discovery of translated novel unannotated open reading frames (nuORFs) using ribosome profiling (Ribo-seq), we hypothesized that cancer-associated processes could generate nuORFs that can serve as a new source of tumor antigens that harbor somatic mutations or show tumor-specific expression. To identify cancer-specific nuORFs, we generated Ribo-seq profiles for 29 malignant and healthy samples, developed a sensitive analytic approach for hierarchical ORF prediction, and constructed a high-confidence database of translated nuORFs across tissues. Peptides from 3,555 unique translated nuORFs were presented on MHC I, based on analysis of an extensive dataset of MHC I-bound peptides detected by mass spectrometry, with >20-fold more nuORF peptides detected in the MHC I immunopeptidomes compared to whole proteomes. We further detected somatic mutations in nuORFs of cancer samples and identified nuORFs with tumor-specific translation in melanoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and glioblastoma. NuORFs thus expand the pool of MHC I-presented, tumor-specific peptides, targetable by immunotherapies.
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