Abstract:
Provided herein are vaccines comprising one or more disease-associated antigenic peptides or nucleic acids encoding one or more disease-associated antigenic peptides and immunogenic compositions comprising such vaccines in combination with an inhibitor of SERPINA1, CRP, TIMP-1, or VEGF. Also provided are methods and compositions for combination therapy between immunogenic compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, and vaccines comprising such fusion polypeptides, such nucleic acids, or such recombinant bacteria or Listeria strains and an inhibitor of SERPINA1, CRP, TIMP-1, orVEGF. Also provided are methods of inducing an immune response against a disease, method of inducing an enhanced immune response against a disease, and method of increasing the overall survival rate of a subject having a disease using such vaccines and immunogenic compositions.
Abstract:
Provided herein are systems comprising recurrent cancer mutation immunotherapy compositions and personalized neoepitope immunotherapy compositions. Also provided are recurrent cancer mutation immunotherapy compositions comprising a recombinant Listeria strain comprising a nucleic acid comprising a nucleic acid comprising an open reading frame encoding a recombinant fusion polypeptide comprising one or more antigenic peptides (e.g., fused to a PEST-containing peptide) from cancer-associated proteins. The antigenic peptides can comprise one or more or all of an antigenic peptide comprising a recurrent cancer mutation, an antigenic peptide comprising a heteroclitic mutation, or an antigenic peptide fused to a ubiquitin protein. Also provided are recurrent cancer mutation immunotherapy compositions comprising a recombinant Listeria strain comprising a nucleic acid comprising an open reading frame encoding a fusion polypeptide, wherein the fusion polypeptide comprises a PEST-containing peptide fused to two or more antigenic peptides, wherein each of the antigenic peptides comprises a recurrent cancer mutation, and wherein at least two of the antigenic peptides comprise different recurrent cancer mutations and are fragments of the same cancer-associated protein. Also provided are personalized immunotherapy compositions comprising a recombinant Listeria strain comprising a nucleic acid comprising an open reading frame encoding a fusion polypeptide, wherein the fusion polypeptide comprises a PEST-containing peptide fused to one or more antigenic peptides, wherein each of the antigenic peptides comprises a cancer-specific neoepitope comprising a cancer-specific mutation found in a cancer sample from a subject but not in a healthy biological sample from the subject. Also provided are recombinant fusion polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding fusion polypeptides, and methods of generating such compositions. Also provided are methods of inducing an anti-tumor-associated-antigen immune response in a subject, methods of inducing an anti-tumor or anti-cancer immune response in a subject, methods of treating a tumor or cancer in a subject, methods of preventing a tumor or cancer in a subject, and methods of protecting a subject against a tumor or cancer using such immunotherapy compositions, recombinant fusion polypeptides, nucleic acids, or recombinant bacteria or Listeria strains.
Abstract:
This invention provides a system of providing and creating personalized immunotherapeutic compositions for a subject having a disease or condition, including therapeutic immunotherapy delivery vectors and methods of making the same comprising gene expression constructs expressing peptides associated with one or more neo-epitopes or peptides containing mutations that are specific to a subject's cancer or unhealthy tissue. A delivery vector of this invention includes bacterial vectors including Listeria bacterial vectors; or viral vectors, peptide immunotherapy vectors; or DNA immunotherapy vectors, comprising one or more fusion proteins comprising one or more peptides comprising one or more neo-epitopes present in disease-bearing biological samples obtained from the subject. This invention also provides methods of using the same for inducing an immune response against a disease or condition, including a tumor or cancer, or an infection, or an autoimmune disease or an organ transplant rejection in the subject.