Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.08.04.236331v1?rss=1 Authors: Qi, Y. A., Maity, T. K., Cultraro, C. M., Misra, V., Zhang, X., Ade, C., Gao, S., Milewski, D., Nguyen, K. D., Ebrahimabadi, M. H., Hanada, K.-i., Khan, J., Sahinalp, C., Yang, J. C., Guha, U. Abstract: Immune checkpoint inhibitor and adoptive lymphocyte transfer-based therapies have shown great therapeutic potential for cancers with high tumor mutation burden (TMB). Here, we employed mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteogenomic large-scale profiling to identify potential immunogenic human leukocyte antigen (HLA) Class I-presented peptides in both melanoma, a hot tumor with high TMB, and EGFR mutant lung adenocarcinoma, a cold tumor with low TMB. We identified several classes of neopeptides, including mutated neoantigens and more than 1000 post-translationally modified peptides representing 58 different PTMs. We constructed a cancer germline (CG) antigen database with 285 antigens and identified 42 Class I-presented CG antigens. Finally, we developed a non-canonical peptide discovery pipeline to identify 44 lncRNA-derived peptides and validated Class I binding for select neopeptides. We provide direct evidence of HLA Class I presentation of a large number of neopeptides for potential vaccine or adoptive cell therapy in melanoma and mutant EGFR lung cancer. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info