Targeting cancer-specific mutations by T cell receptor gene therapy

T Blankenstein, M Leisegang, W Uckert… - Current opinion in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•T cell therapy can eradicate large tumors.•Cancer-specific mutations creating
neoepitopes are potentially the best target.•Mutant epitopes can be retained in patients …

A neoantigen fitness model predicts tumour response to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy

M Łuksza, N Riaz, V Makarov, VP Balachandran… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Checkpoint blockade immunotherapies enable the host immune system to recognize and
destroy tumour cells. Their clinical activity has been correlated with activated T-cell …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor-specific T cell dysfunction is a dynamic antigen-driven differentiation program initiated early during tumorigenesis

A Schietinger, M Philip, VE Krisnawan, EY Chiu… - Immunity, 2016 - cell.com
CD8+ T cells recognizing tumor-specific antigens are detected in cancer patients but are
dysfunctional. Here we developed a tamoxifen-inducible liver cancer mouse model with a …

Clonal evolution of glioblastoma under therapy

J Wang, E Cazzato, E Ladewig, V Frattini… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor. To better
understand how GBM evolves, we analyzed longitudinal genomic and transcriptomic data …

Neo-antigens predicted by tumor genome meta-analysis correlate with increased patient survival

SD Brown, RL Warren, EA Gibb, SD Martin… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Somatic missense mutations can initiate tumorogenesis and, conversely, anti-tumor
cytotoxic T cell (CTL) responses. Tumor genome analysis has revealed extreme …

POLE Proofreading Mutations Elicit an Antitumor Immune Response in Endometrial Cancer

IC van Gool, FA Eggink, L Freeman-Mills, E Stelloo… - Clinical Cancer …, 2015 - AACR
Purpose: Recent studies have shown that 7% to 12% of endometrial cancers are
ultramutated due to somatic mutation in the proofreading exonuclease domain of the DNA …

Mining the mutanome: developing highly personalized Immunotherapies based on mutational analysis of tumors

WW Overwijk, E Wang, FM Marincola… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2013 - Springer
T cells can mediate remarkable tumor regressions including complete cure in patients with
metastatic cancer. Genetic alterations in an individual's cancer cells (the mutanome) encode …

Immunological profiling of molecularly classified high-risk endometrial cancers identifies POLE-mutant and microsatellite unstable carcinomas as candidates for …

FA Eggink, IC Van Gool, A Leary, PM Pollock… - …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
High-risk endometrial cancer (EC) is an aggressive disease for which new therapeutic
options are needed. Aims of this study were to validate the enhanced immune response in …

A catalog of HLA type, HLA expression, and neo-epitope candidates in human cancer cell lines

S Boegel, M Löwer, T Bukur, U Sahin… - …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer cell lines are a tremendous resource for cancer biology and therapy development.
These multipurpose tools are commonly used to examine the genetic origin of cancers, to …

Acute myeloid leukemia immunopeptidome reveals HLA presentation of mutated nucleophosmin

R Narayan, N Olsson, LE Wagar, BC Medeiros… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Somatic mutations in cancer are a potential source of cancer specific neoantigens. Acute
myeloid leukemia (AML) has common recurrent mutations shared between patients in …