CD4+ T cells in cancer

DE Speiser, O Chijioke, K Schaeuble, C Münz - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer immunology and immunotherapy are driving forces of research and development in
oncology, mostly focusing on CD8+ T cells and the tumor microenvironment. Recent …

[HTML][HTML] Tertiary lymphoid structures and B cells: An intratumoral immunity cycle

WH Fridman, M Meylan, G Pupier, A Calvez… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
The generation of anti-tumor immunity in the draining lymph nodes is known as the cancer
immunity cycle. Accumulating evidence supports the occurrence of such a cycle at tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Immunogenicity and therapeutic targeting of a public neoantigen derived from mutated PIK3CA

SS Chandran, J Ma, MG Klatt, F Dündar… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Public neoantigens (NeoAgs) represent an elite class of shared cancer-specific epitopes
derived from recurrently mutated driver genes. Here we describe a high-throughput platform …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning methods and harmonized datasets improve immunogenic neoantigen prediction

M Müller, F Huber, M Arnaud, AI Kraemer, ER Altimiras… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
The accurate selection of neoantigens that bind to class I human leukocyte antigen (HLA)
and are recognized by autologous T cells is a crucial step in many cancer immunotherapy …

Deep neural networks predict class I major histocompatibility complex epitope presentation and transfer learn neoepitope immunogenicity

BA Albert, Y Yang, XM Shao, D Singh… - Nature machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Identifying neoepitopes that elicit an adaptive immune response is a major bottleneck to
developing personalized cancer vaccines. Experimental validation of candidate …

Challenges in developing personalized neoantigen cancer vaccines

PD Katsikis, KJ Ishii, C Schliehe - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
The recent success of cancer immunotherapies has highlighted the benefit of harnessing the
immune system for cancer treatment. Vaccines have a long history of promoting immunity to …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitive identification of neoantigens and cognate TCRs in human solid tumors

M Arnaud, J Chiffelle, R Genolet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The identification of patient-specific tumor antigens is complicated by the low frequency of T
cells specific for each tumor antigen. Here we describe NeoScreen, a method that enables …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of immunopeptidomics: From basic research to clinical implementation

IE Shapiro, M Bassani-Sternberg - Seminars in Immunology, 2023 - Elsevier
The immunopeptidome is the set of peptides presented by the major histocompatibility
complex (MHC) molecules, in humans also known as the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) …

[HTML][HTML] Neoantigen-specific CD8 T cells with high structural avidity preferentially reside in and eliminate tumors

J Schmidt, J Chiffelle, MAS Perez, M Magnin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The success of cancer immunotherapy depends in part on the strength of antigen
recognition by T cells. Here, we characterize the T cell receptor (TCR) functional (antigen …