The next decade of immune checkpoint therapy

P Sharma, BA Siddiqui, S Anandhan, SS Yadav… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) can provide durable clinical responses and improve
overall survival. However, only subsets of patients with specific tumor types respond to ICT …

Targeting the DNA damage response in immuno-oncology: developments and opportunities

RM Chabanon, M Rouanne, CJ Lord, JC Soria… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment and substantially improved patient
outcome with regard to multiple tumour types. However, most patients still do not benefit …

Phenotype, specificity and avidity of antitumour CD8+ T cells in melanoma

G Oliveira, K Stromhaug, S Klaeger, T Kula… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Interactions between T cell receptors (TCRs) and their cognate tumour antigens are central
to antitumour immune responses,–; however, the relationship between phenotypic …

Neoantigen-driven B cell and CD4 T follicular helper cell collaboration promotes anti-tumor CD8 T cell responses

C Cui, J Wang, E Fagerberg, PM Chen, KA Connolly… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary CD4 T follicular helper (TFH) cells support B cells, which are critical for germinal
center (GC) formation, but the importance of TFH-B cell interactions in cancer is unclear. We …

Neoantigen: A new breakthrough in tumor immunotherapy

Z Zhang, M Lu, Y Qin, W Gao, L Tao, W Su… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cancer immunotherapy works by stimulating and strengthening the body's anti-tumor
immune response to eliminate cancer cells. Over the past few decades, immunotherapy has …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacologic modulation of RNA splicing enhances anti-tumor immunity

SX Lu, E De Neef, JD Thomas, E Sabio, B Rousseau… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Although mutations in DNA are the best-studied source of neoantigens that determine
response to immune checkpoint blockade, alterations in RNA splicing within cancer cells …

TCR signal strength defines distinct mechanisms of T cell dysfunction and cancer evasion

M Shakiba, P Zumbo, G Espinosa-Carrasco… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
T cell receptor (TCR) signal strength is a key determinant of T cell responses. We developed
a cancer mouse model in which tumor-specific CD8 T cells (TST cells) encounter tumor …

Promises and challenges of adoptive T-cell therapies for solid tumours

M Morotti, A Albukhari, A Alsaadi, M Artibani… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and, despite new targeted therapies and
immunotherapies, many patients with advanced-stage-or high-risk cancers still die, owing to …

[HTML][HTML] The CD155/TIGIT axis promotes and maintains immune evasion in neoantigen-expressing pancreatic cancer

WA Freed-Pastor, LJ Lambert, ZA Ely, NB Pattada… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The CD155/TIGIT axis can be co-opted during immune evasion in chronic viral infections
and cancer. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal malignancy, and immune …

Low neoantigen expression and poor T-cell priming underlie early immune escape in colorectal cancer

PMK Westcott, NJ Sacks, JM Schenkel, ZA Ely, O Smith… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immune evasion is a hallmark of cancer and therapies that restore immune surveillance
have proven highly effective in cancers with high tumor mutation burden (TMB)(for example …