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Table 2 Tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) in mPC immunotherapeutics

From: Novel therapies are changing treatment paradigms in metastatic prostate cancer

TAA

Function

Modalities for immunotherapy

Other expressing tissues

Unsuccessful therapies

Approved therapies

Ongoing trials

PSMA

Zinc metalloenzyme

Bi-specific antibodies, CAR-T, STEAP-1

Salivary glands, kidney

N/A

N/A

PSMAxCD3 antibody CC-1 (NCT04104607), P-PSMA-101 CAR-T (NCT04249947), PSCA-CAR-T (NCT03873805), CART-PSMA-TGFβRDN (NCT04227275), BPX-601 CAR-T (NCT02744287), AMG 509 (NCT04221542), Pasotuxizumab (BAY 2010112) (NCT01723475), ES414 (NCT02262910), Adoptive transfer of autologous T cells (NCT01140373)

Folate uptake

PAP

Seminal fluid production

Vaccine + ICI

Not significant

N/A

Sipuleucel-T

NCT04090528, NCT02499835

PSA

Serine protease

Vaccine + ICI

Not significant

Vaccine (NCT01322490)

N/A

NCT02933255, NCT02325557

Forms semen coagulum

MUC1

Cell adhesion, intracellular signaling

Vaccine, DC vaccine

Most epithelial cells. Many adenocarcinomas. Not expressed by normal prostate cells

N/A

N/A

NCT03481816

PSCA

Unknown

Vaccine, mAb

Not significant

N/A

N/A

N/A

TARP

Androgen regulation. Mitochondrial lipid metabolism

DC vaccine

Breast adenocarcinoma

N/A

N/A

NCT02362451

  1. PSMA prostate-specific membrane antigen, PAP prostate acid phosphatase, PSA prostate-specific antigen, MUC1 mucin-1, PSCA prostate stem cell antigen, STEAP-1 six transmembrane epithelial antigen of the prostate 1, TARP T cell receptor gamma chain alternate reading frame protein, CAR-T chimeric antigen receptor T cell, ICI immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy, DC dendritic cell, mAb monoclonal antibody