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drug_type
RELEVANT_DRUG
intervention_type
Therapeutic cancer vaccine (peptide-based)
drug_description
Microbial-derived peptide therapeutic cancer vaccine composed of HLA-A2–restricted OncoMimic peptides that prime and expand tumor-specific CD8+ T cells via dendritic-cell presentation to elicit cytotoxic antitumor immunity.
nci_thesaurus_concept_id
C192811
nci_thesaurus_preferred_term
Microbiome-derived Peptide Vaccine EO4010
nci_thesaurus_definition
A microbiome therapeutic cancer peptide vaccine composed of onco-mimics, immunogenic microbiome-derived peptides that are highly homologous to specific tumor-associated antigens (TAAs), that are obtained and selected from the human gut microbiome, with potential immunomodulating and antineoplastic activities. The five microbiome-derived bacterial antigens in EO4010 mimic five TAAs that are highly expressed by colorectal cancer cells. Upon administration of microbiome-derived peptide vaccine EO4010, the peptides are taken up by and presented on dendritic cells (DCs) to T-cells. As the presented antigens display molecular mimicry with selected TAAs on colorectal cancer cells, a memory T-cell- and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL)-mediated immune response may be mounted against the cancer cells expressing the TAAs, thereby eradicating the cancer cells.
drug_category
PEPTIDE VACCINE
drug_class
Vaccine
drug_delivery_route
Not specified
drug_mechanism_of_action
Microbiome-derived HLA-A2–restricted OncoMimic peptides are taken up by dendritic cells and presented on MHC class I to prime and expand tumor-specific CD8+ T cells. The induced CTLs recognize tumor-associated antigen–mimicking epitopes on cancer cells, generating memory and cytotoxic antitumor immunity that targets TAA-expressing tumor cells (e.g., in colorectal cancer).
drug_name
EO4010
nct_id_drug_ref
NCT05589597