NOVEL TUMOR-SPECIFIC ANTIGENS FOR ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA (ALL) AND USES THEREOF

摘要

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has not benefited from innovative immunotherapies, mainly because of the lack of actionable immune targets. Novel tumor-specific antigens (TSAs) specifically expressed by ALL cells are described herein. Most of the TSAs described herein derives from aberrantly expressed unmutated genomic sequences, such as intronic and intergenic sequences, which are not expressed in normal tissues. Nucleic acids, compositions, cells, antibodies and vaccines derived from these TSAs are described. The use of the TSAs, nucleic acids, compositions, antibodies, cells and vaccines for the treatment of leukemia such as ALL is also described.