Human cancer vaccines

2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 12213116
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Review Section: Biological Sciences
• Research Institution: Sapporo Medical University
• Principal Investigator: SATO Noriyuki Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (50158937)
• Project Period (FY): 2000 – 2004
• Keywords: tumor antigens / peptide vaccines / CTL / clinical trials / autologous tumor / Bioinformatics / survivin / SYT-SSX

Research Abstract

Three research projects were successfully studied. 1) We identified human osteosarcoma antigen PBF, papilloma-binding factor, from autologous CTL and osteosarcoma OS2000 line. PBF was expressed in a large part of soft part tumors as well as approximately 50 % tumors of epithelial origins, whereas it was not detected in normal part of tissues particularly in the protein level. These observations suggest that PBF could be utilized in the immunotherapy of cancers. 2) Reverse-immunological approaches of tumor antigens indicated that survivin could work as the tumor antigens. Particularly, survivin-derived 2Bpeptide induced CTL in many cancer patients in the HLA-A24 restricted manner. We are now underway the phase I clinical trials of this peptide in colon, breast, lung cancers, indicating that there are no adverse effects. Some of these patients demonstrated certain clinical responses such as reduction in tumor size in CT as well as in tumor marker levels. We are also underway the phase I clinical trials of HLA-A24-restricted B peptide derived from the SYT-SSX chromosomal translocation fusion product in synovial sarcoma patients. In this trial, there are no adverse effects, and two out of six patients indicated an increasing number of tetramer-positive CTL precursors. 3) We identified 35 novel tumor antigens by bioinformatics in silico approaches. Wet studies by using RT-PCR analysis confirmed that 7 out of 35 antigens have strict expression profiles as the tumor antigens.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Aberrant expression and potency as a cancer immunotherapy target of IAP family, Livin/ML-IAP in Lung Cancer. (2005)
  • Author(s): Hariu, H.
  • Journal Title: Clin.Cancer Res. 11 Pages: 1000-1009
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Aberrant expression and potency as a cancer immunotherapy target of IAP family, Livin/ML-IAP in Lung Cancer. (2005)
  • Author(s): Hariu, H., Hirohashi, Y., Torigoe, T., Tamura, Y., Aketa, K., Kitamura, H., Idenoue, S., Hariu, M., Kamiguchi, K., Mano, Y., Kanaseki, T., Tsukahara, T., Shijubo, N., Sato, N.
  • Journal Title: Clin.Cancer Res. 11 Pages: 1000-1009
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] A potent immunogenic general cancer vaccine that targets survivin, an inhibitor of apoptosis proteins. (2005)
  • Author(s): Idenoue, S., Hirohashi, Y., Torigoe, T., Sato, Y., Tamura, Y., Hariu, H., Yamamoto, M., Kurotaki, T., Tsuruma, T., Asanuma, H., Kanaseki, T., Ikeda, H., Kashiwagi, K., Okazaki, M., Sasaki, K., Sato, T., Ohmura, T., Hata, F., Yamaguchi, K., Hirata, K., Sato, N.
  • Journal Title: Clin.Cancer Res. 11 Pages: 1474-82
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] A calcium binding protein, S100A4, mediates T cell dependent cytotoxicity as a transformation-associated antigen. (2005)
  • Author(s): Kondo, N., Ichimiya, S., Tamura, Y., Tonooka, A., Koshiba, S., Torigoe, T., Kamiguchi, K., Takenaga, K., Sato, N.
  • Journal Title: Microbiol.Immunol. 49 Pages: 49-56
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Identification of human autologous cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-defined osteosarcoma gene that encodes a transcriptional regulator, papillomavirus binding factor. (2004)
  • Author(s): Tsukahara, T.
  • Journal Title: Cancer Res. 64 Pages: 5442-5448
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Tumor-derived heat shock protein70-pulsed dendritic cells elicit tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and tumor immunity. (2004)
  • Author(s): Ueda, G.
  • Journal Title: Cancer Science 95 Pages: 248-253
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Phase I clinical study of anti-apoptosis protein, survivin-derived peptide vaccine therapy for patients with advanced or recurrent colorectal cancer. (2004)
  • Author(s): Tsuruma, T.
  • Journal Title: J.Translational Med. 2 Pages: 19-29
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Crisscross CTL induction by SYT-SSX junction peptide and its HLA-A^*2402 anchor substitute. (2004)
  • Author(s): Ida, K.
  • Journal Title: J.Immunol. 173 Pages: 1436-1443
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Regulation of MHC class II expression in glioma cells by class II transactivator (C IITA). (2004)
  • Author(s): Takamura, Y.
  • Journal Title: Glia 45 Pages: 392-405
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Identification of human autologous cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-defined osteosarcoma gene that encodes a transcriptional regulator, papillomavirus binding factor. (2004)
  • Author(s): Tsukahara, T., Nabeta, Y., Kawaguchi, S., Ikeda, H., Sato, Y., Shimozawa, K., Ida, K., Asanuma, H., Hirohashi, Y., Torigoe, T., Hiraga, H., Nagoya, S., Wada, T., Yamashita, T., Sato, N.
  • Journal Title: Cancer Res. 64 Pages: 5442-5448
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Tumor- derived heat shock protein70-pulsed dendritic cells elicit tumor- specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and tumor immunity. (2004)
  • Author(s): Ueda, G., Tamura, Y., Hirai, I., Kamigichi, K., Ichimiya, S., Torigoe, T., Hiratsuka, H., Sunakawa, H., Sato, N.
  • Journal Title: Cancer Science 95 Pages: 248-253
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Phase I clinical study of anti-apoptosis protein, survivin-derived peptide vaccine therapy for patients with advanced or recurrent colorectal cancer. (2004)
  • Author(s): Tsuruma, T., Hata, F., Torigoe, T., Furuhata, T., Idenoue, S., Kurotaki, T., Yamamoto, M., Yagihashi, A., Ohmura, T., Yamaguchi, K., Katsuramaki, T., Yasoshima, T., Sasaki, K., Mizushima, Y., Minamida, H., Kimura, H., Akiyama, M., Hirohashi, Y., Asanuma, H., Tamura, Y., Shimozawa, K., Sato, N., Hirata, K.
  • Journal Title: J.Translational Med. 2 Pages: 19-29
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Crisscross CTL induction by SYT-SSX junction peptide and its HLA-A^*2402 anchor substitute. (2004)
  • Author(s): Ida, K., Kawaguchi, S., Sato, Y., Tsukahara, T., Nabeta, Y., Sahara, H., Ikeda, H., Torigoe, T., Ichimiya, S., Kamiguchi, K., Wada, T., Nagoya, S., Hiraga, H., Kawai, A., Ishii, T., Araki, N., Myoui, A., Matsumoto, S., Ozaki, T., Yoshikawa, H., Yamashita, T., Sato, N.
  • Journal Title: J.Immunol. 173 Pages: 1436-1443
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Regulation of MHC class II expression in glioma cells by class II transactivator (C II TA). (2004)
  • Author(s): Takamura, Y., Ikeda, H., Kanaseki, T., Toyota, M., Tokino, T., Imai, K., Hokin, K., Sato, N.
  • Journal Title: Glia 45 Pages: 392-405
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Heat shock proteins; Chaperoning of innate and adaptive immunities. (2003)
  • Author(s): Tamura, Y., Sato, N.
  • Journal Title: Jpn.J.Hyperthermic Oncology 19 Pages: 131-139
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Histone deacetylation, but not hypermethylation, modifies CIITA and MHC calss II gene expression in squamous cell carcinomas. (2003)
  • Author(s): Kanaseki, T., Ikeda, H., Takamura, Y., Toyota, M., Hirohashi, Y., Tokino, T., Himi, T., Sato, N.
  • Journal Title: J.Immunol. 170 Pages: 4980-4985
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Book] Annual Review免疫2005;熱ショック蛋白質(HSP)-ペプチド複合体による新しいMHCクラスI抗原提示経路(佐藤昇志, 他編集) (2005)
  • Author(s): 田村保明, 佐藤昇志
  • Total Pages: 8
  • Publisher: 中外医学社
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] サバイビン由来HLA-A24結合性癌抗原ペプチド (2004)
  • Inventor(s): 佐藤 昇志 他 4名
  • Industrial Property Number: 特願2004-191478
  • Filing Date: 2004-01-30
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] SYT-SSX改変ペプチド (2002)
  • Inventor(s): 佐藤 昇志 他 7名
  • Industrial Property Number: 特願2002-350633
  • Filing Date: 2002-12-03
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より