Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

J Zhang, D Huang, PE Saw, E Song - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved clinical benefit, but most
'immune-cold'solid tumors are not responsive. The diversity of immune evasion mechanisms …

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 …

Regulation of pre-mRNA splicing: roles in physiology and disease, and therapeutic prospects

ME Rogalska, C Vivori, J Valcárcel - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The removal of introns from mRNA precursors and its regulation by alternative splicing are
key for eukaryotic gene expression and cellular function, as evidenced by the numerous …

RNA in cancer

GJ Goodall, VO Wickramasinghe - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
While the processing of mRNA is essential for gene expression, recent findings have
highlighted that RNA processing is systematically altered in cancer. Mutations in RNA …

Proteogenomic data and resources for pan-cancer analysis

Y Li, Y Dou, FDV Leprevost, Y Geffen, AP Calinawan… - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The National Cancer Institute's Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium
(CPTAC) investigates tumors from a proteogenomic perspective, creating rich multi-omics …

Alternative splicing and cancer: a systematic review

Y Zhang, J Qian, C Gu, Y Yang - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2021 - nature.com
The abnormal regulation of alternative splicing is usually accompanied by the occurrence
and development of tumors, which would produce multiple different isoforms and diversify …

Key parameters of tumor epitope immunogenicity revealed through a consortium approach improve neoantigen prediction

DK Wells, MM van Buuren, KK Dang… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Many approaches to identify therapeutically relevant neoantigens couple tumor sequencing
with bioinformatic algorithms and inferred rules of tumor epitope immunogenicity. However …

Pan-cancer analysis identifies tumor-specific antigens derived from transposable elements

NM Shah, HJ Jang, Y Liang, JH Maeng, SC Tzeng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryptic promoters within transposable elements (TEs) can be transcriptionally reactivated in
tumors to create new TE-chimeric transcripts, which can produce immunogenic antigens. We …

Targeting the epigenetic regulation of antitumour immunity

SJ Hogg, PA Beavis, MA Dawson… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Dysregulation of the epigenome drives aberrant transcriptional programmes that promote
cancer onset and progression. Although defective gene regulation often affects oncogenic …

Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer—implications for care

SC Bonnal, I López-Oreja, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential
step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated …