[HTML][HTML] MHC-I genotype restricts the oncogenic mutational landscape

R Marty, S Kaabinejadian, D Rossell, MJ Slifker… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
R Marty, S Kaabinejadian, D Rossell, MJ Slifker, J van de Haar, HB Engin, N de Prisco
Cell, 2017cell.com
MHC-I molecules expose the intracellular protein content on the cell surface, allowing T cells
to detect foreign or mutated peptides. The combination of six MHC-I alleles each individual
carries defines the sub-peptidome that can be effectively presented. We applied this concept
to human cancer, hypothesizing that oncogenic mutations could arise in gaps in personal
MHC-I presentation. To validate this hypothesis, we developed and applied a residue-
centric patient presentation score to 9,176 cancer patients across 1,018 recurrent oncogenic …
Summary
MHC-I molecules expose the intracellular protein content on the cell surface, allowing T cells to detect foreign or mutated peptides. The combination of six MHC-I alleles each individual carries defines the sub-peptidome that can be effectively presented. We applied this concept to human cancer, hypothesizing that oncogenic mutations could arise in gaps in personal MHC-I presentation. To validate this hypothesis, we developed and applied a residue-centric patient presentation score to 9,176 cancer patients across 1,018 recurrent oncogenic mutations. We found that patient MHC-I genotype-based scores could predict which mutations were more likely to emerge in their tumor. Accordingly, poor presentation of a mutation across patients was correlated with higher frequency among tumors. These results support that MHC-I genotype-restricted immunoediting during tumor formation shapes the landscape of oncogenic mutations observed in clinically diagnosed tumors and paves the way for predicting personal cancer susceptibilities from knowledge of MHC-I genotype.
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