BioNTech Investor Day Presentation Deck
1 Neoantigen prediction
How do we identify, predict, and characterize neoantigens?
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CD4+ T cells
CD4+
T cell
Mutated DNA
DC
Activation
CD8+
T cell
MOOMOO
Recognition of cancer-associated mutations by cytotoxic T cells¹
Tumor-draining lymph node
Tumor
Biology relevant
for immunogenicity
Tumour cell
Mutated peptide/
neo-epitope
Uptake
Cross
presentation
CTL
b
Stability
Amount
Neo-epitope
#
HLA-I TCR
Tumor
CD8+
T cell
Localization
Expression
Clonality
Processing
MHC binding/stability
TCR binding
Tolerance
Biology relevant for
tumor cell recognition
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Digital & AI/ML
Type of the mutation (SNV, INDEL, Fusion..)2
Clonality of the mutation (clonal, subclonal) 3,4
Mutation position (anchor, non-anchor, TCR accessibility) 5-7
Mutated transcript expression level8,⁹
Similarity to foreign antigens/lack of self-similarity²
Peptide/HLA binding strength (affinity, off-rate)²
1 Türeci Ö, et al. Nat Biomed Eng 2018; 2:566-569; 2 Sahin U. AACR Annual Meeting 2022; Oral presentation;
3 McGranahan N, et al. Science 2016; 351:1463-1469; 4 Gejman RS, et al. eLife 2018; 7:e41090; 5 Duan F, et al. J Exp Med 2014; 211:2231-2248;
6 Balachandran VP, et al. Nature 2017; 551:512-516; 7 Yadav M, et al. Nature 2014; 515:572-576; 8 Kreiter S, et al. Nature 2015; 520:692-696; 9 Abelin JG, et al. Immunity 2017; 46:315-326.
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