The next decade of immune checkpoint therapy

P Sharma, BA Siddiqui, S Anandhan, SS Yadav… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) can provide durable clinical responses and improve
overall survival. However, only subsets of patients with specific tumor types respond to ICT …

Targeting the HIF2–VEGF axis in renal cell carcinoma

TK Choueiri, WG Kaelin Jr - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Insights into the role of the tumor suppressor pVHL in oxygen sensing motivated the testing
of drugs that target the transcription factor HIF or HIF-responsive growth factors, such as …

Single-cell meta-analyses reveal responses of tumor-reactive CXCL13+ T cells to immune-checkpoint blockade

B Liu, Y Zhang, D Wang, X Hu, Z Zhang - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies represent a paradigm shift in the treatment of
human cancers; however, it remains incompletely understood how tumor-reactive T cells …

[HTML][HTML] High tumor mutation burden fails to predict immune checkpoint blockade response across all cancer types

DJ McGrail, PG Pilié, NU Rashid, L Voorwerk… - Annals of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background High tumor mutation burden (TMB-H) has been proposed as a predictive
biomarker for response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB), largely due to the potential for …

Histopathologic and proteogenomic heterogeneity reveals features of clear cell renal cell carcinoma aggressiveness

Y Li, TSM Lih, SM Dhanasekaran, R Mannan, L Chen… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Clear cell renal cell carcinomas (ccRCCs) represent∼ 75% of RCC cases and account for
most RCC-associated deaths. Inter-and intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) results in varying …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor and immune reprogramming during immunotherapy in advanced renal cell carcinoma

K Bi, MX He, Z Bakouny, A Kanodia, S Napolitano… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) results in durable disease control in a subset of patients
with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), but mechanisms driving resistance are poorly …

Meta-analysis of tumor-and T cell-intrinsic mechanisms of sensitization to checkpoint inhibition

K Litchfield, JL Reading, C Puttick, K Thakkar… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) augment adaptive immunity. Systematic pan-tumor analyses
may reveal the relative importance of tumor-cell-intrinsic and microenvironmental features …

Improved prediction of immune checkpoint blockade efficacy across multiple cancer types

D Chowell, SK Yoo, C Valero, A Pastore… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Only a fraction of patients with cancer respond to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB)
treatment, but current decision-making procedures have limited accuracy. In this study, we …

Epigenetic silencing by SETDB1 suppresses tumour intrinsic immunogenicity

GK Griffin, J Wu, A Iracheta-Vellve, JC Patti, J Hsu… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Epigenetic dysregulation is a defining feature of tumorigenesis that is implicated in immune
escape,. Here, to identify factors that modulate the immune sensitivity of cancer cells, we …

In vivo CRISPR screens reveal the landscape of immune evasion pathways across cancer

J Dubrot, PP Du, SK Lane-Reticker, EA Kessler… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The immune system can eliminate tumors, but checkpoints enable immune escape. Here,
we identify immune evasion mechanisms using genome-scale in vivo CRISPR screens …