Identification of neoantigens for individualized therapeutic cancer vaccines

F Lang, B Schrörs, M Löwer, Ö Türeci… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Somatic mutations in cancer cells can generate tumour-specific neoepitopes, which are
recognized by autologous T cells in the host. As neoepitopes are not subject to central …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges in neoantigen-directed therapeutics

L Lybaert, S Lefever, B Fant, E Smits, B De Geest… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A fundamental prerequisite for the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy is the presence of
functional, antigen-specific T cells within the tumor. Neoantigen-directed therapy is a …

Functional landscapes of POLE and POLD1 mutations in checkpoint blockade-dependent antitumor immunity

X Ma, N Riaz, RM Samstein, M Lee, V Makarov… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Defects in pathways governing genomic fidelity have been linked to improved response to
immune checkpoint blockade therapy (ICB). Pathogenic POLE/POLD1 mutations can cause …

Recent advances and challenges in cancer immunotherapy

C Peterson, N Denlinger, Y Yang - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Immunotherapy helps a person's immune system to target tumor cells.
Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy, including immune checkpoint inhibition …

Therapeutic high affinity T cell receptor targeting a KRASG12D cancer neoantigen

A Poole, V Karuppiah, A Hartt, JN Haidar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Neoantigens derived from somatic mutations are specific to cancer cells and are ideal
targets for cancer immunotherapy. KRAS is the most frequently mutated oncogene and …

Mechanisms of resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors in melanoma: What we have to overcome?

DC Ziogas, C Theocharopoulos, T Koutouratsas… - Cancer Treatment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Marching into the second decade after the approval of ipilimumab, it is clear that immune
checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have dramatically improved the prognosis of melanoma …

Designing neoantigen cancer vaccines, trials, and outcomes

N Biswas, S Chakrabarti, V Padul, LD Jones… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Neoantigen vaccines are based on epitopes of antigenic parts of mutant proteins expressed
in cancer cells. These highly immunogenic antigens may trigger the immune system to …

Accelerating antibody discovery and design with artificial intelligence: Recent advances and prospects

G Bai, C Sun, Z Guo, Y Wang, X Zeng, Y Su… - Seminars in Cancer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Therapeutic antibodies are the largest class of biotherapeutics and have been successful in
treating human diseases. However, the design and discovery of antibody drugs remains …

ATSE: a peptide toxicity predictor by exploiting structural and evolutionary information based on graph neural network and attention mechanism

L Wei, X Ye, Y Xue, T Sakurai… - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Peptides have recently emerged as promising therapeutic agents against
various diseases. For both research and safety regulation purposes, it is of high importance …

Spatiotemporal evolution of the clear cell renal cell carcinoma microenvironment links intra-tumoral heterogeneity to immune escape

M Golkaram, F Kuo, S Gupta, MI Carlo, ML Salmans… - Genome Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) is a hallmark of clear cell renal cell carcinoma
(ccRCC) that reflects the trajectory of evolution and influences clinical prognosis. Here, we …