The Melanoma-Associated Antigen Family A (MAGE-A): A Promising Target for Cancer Immunotherapy?
Cancers (Basel)
; 15(6)2023 Mar 15.
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ABSTRACT
Early efforts to identify tumor-associated antigens over the last decade have provided unique cancer epitopes for targeted cancer therapy. MAGE-A proteins are a subclass of cancer/testis (CT) antigens that are presented on the cell surface by MHC class I molecules as an immune-privileged site. This is due to their restricted expression to germline cells and a wide range of cancers, where they are associated with resistance to chemotherapy, metastasis, and cancer cells with an increasing potential for survival. This makes them an appealing candidate target for designing an effective and specific immunotherapy, thereby suggesting that targeting oncogenic MAGE-As with cancer vaccination, adoptive T-cell transfer, or a combination of therapies would be promising. In this review, we summarize and discuss previous and ongoing (pre-)clinical studies that target these antigens, while bearing in mind the benefits and drawbacks of various therapeutic strategies, in order to speculate on future directions for MAGE-A-specific immunotherapies.
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MEDLINE
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Risk_factors_studies
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En
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Cancers (Basel)
Ano de publicação:
2023
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Article
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Federação Russa
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CH
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SUÍÇA
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SWITZERLAND