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 …

The foundations of immune checkpoint blockade and the ipilimumab approval decennial

AJ Korman, SC Garrett-Thomson… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunity, and the potential for cancer immunotherapy, have been topics of scientific
discussion and experimentation for over a hundred years. Several successful cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Hallmarks of response, resistance, and toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade

G Morad, BA Helmink, P Sharma, JA Wargo - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Unprecedented advances have been made in cancer treatment with the use of immune
checkpoint blockade (ICB). However, responses are limited to a subset of patients, and …

Androgen receptor activity in T cells limits checkpoint blockade efficacy

X Guan, F Polesso, C Wang, A Sehrawat, RM Hawkins… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade has revolutionized the field of oncology, inducing durable anti-
tumour immunity in solid tumours. In patients with advanced prostate cancer …

[HTML][HTML] From bulk, single-cell to spatial RNA sequencing

X Li, CY Wang - International journal of oral science, 2021 - nature.com
RNA sequencing (RNAseq) can reveal gene fusions, splicing variants, mutations/indels in
addition to differential gene expression, thus providing a more complete genetic picture than …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved pan-cancer microenvironment subtypes predict response to immunotherapy

A Bagaev, N Kotlov, K Nomie, V Svekolkin, A Gafurov… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The clinical use of molecular targeted therapy is rapidly evolving but has primarily focused
on genomic alterations. Transcriptomic analysis offers an opportunity to dissect the …

Antigen presentation in cancer: insights into tumour immunogenicity and immune evasion

S Jhunjhunwala, C Hammer, L Delamarre - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade, which blocks inhibitory signals of T cell activation, has shown
tremendous success in treating cancer, although success still remains limited to a fraction of …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in the development of personalized neoantigen-based therapeutic cancer vaccines

E Blass, PA Ott - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Within the past decade, the field of immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of many
cancers with the development and regulatory approval of various immune-checkpoint …

Intratumoral heterogeneity in cancer progression and response to immunotherapy

I Vitale, E Shema, S Loi, L Galluzzi - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Most (if not all) tumors emerge and progress under a strong evolutionary pressure imposed
by trophic, metabolic, immunological, and therapeutic factors. The relative impact of these …

Gut microbiota signatures are associated with toxicity to combined CTLA-4 and PD-1 blockade

MC Andrews, CPM Duong, V Gopalakrishnan… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment with combined immune checkpoint blockade (CICB) targeting CTLA-4
and PD-1 is associated with clinical benefit across tumor types, but also a high rate of …