330846-47-4Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Towards the development of antitumor vaccines: A synthetic conjugate of a tumor-associated MUC1 glycopeptide antigen and a tetanus toxin epitope
Keil, Stefanie,Claus, Christine,Dippold, Wolfgang,Kunz, Horst
, p. 366 - 369 (2001)
Proliferation of cytotoxic T-cells, a prerequisite for the development of antitumor vaccines, was induced by 1, but not by its partial structures A and B. The conjugate 1 containing a tumor-associated Sialyl- TN- MUC-1 glycopeptide antigen A an
Synthetic MUC1 antitumor vaccine with incorporated 2,3-sialyl-T carbohydrate antigen inducing strong immune responses with isotype specificity
Stra?burger, David,Glaffig, Markus,Stergiou, Natascha,Bialas, Sabrina,Besenius, Pol,Schmitt, Edgar,Kunz, Horst
, p. 1142 - 1146 (2018/10/21)
The endothelial glycoprotein MUC1 is known to underlie alterations in cancer by means of aberrant glycosylation accompanied by changes in morphology. The heavily shortened glycans induce a collapse of the peptide backbone and enable accessibility of the latter to immune cells, rendering it a tumor-associated antigen. Synthetic vaccines based on MUC1 tandem repeat motifs, comprising tumor-associated 2,3-sialyl-T antigen, conjugated to the immunostimulating tetanus toxoid, are reported herein. Immunization with these vaccines in a simple water/oil emulsion produced a strong immune response in mice to which stimulation with complete Freund’s adjuvant (CFA) was not superior. In both cases, high levels of IgG1 and IgG2a/b were induced in C57BL/6 mice. Additional glycosylation in the immunodominant PDTRP domain led to improved binding of the induced antisera to MCF-7 breast tumor cells, compared with that of the monoglycosylated peptide vaccine.
