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 …

The emerging role of mass spectrometry-based proteomics in drug discovery

F Meissner, J Geddes-McAlister, M Mann… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Proteins are the main targets of most drugs; however, system-wide methods to monitor
protein activity and function are still underused in drug discovery. Novel biochemical …

Standardized annotation of translated open reading frames

JM Mudge, J Ruiz-Orera, JR Prensner, MA Brunet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To the Editor—Ribosome profiling (Ribo-seq) has extended our understanding of the
translational 'vocabulary'of the human genome, uncovering thousands of open reading …

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 …

Epigenetic modulation of antitumor immunity for improved cancer immunotherapy

E Dai, Z Zhu, S Wahed, Z Qu, WJ Storkus, ZS Guo - Molecular cancer, 2021 - Springer
Epigenetic mechanisms play vital roles not only in cancer initiation and progression, but also
in the activation, differentiation and effector function (s) of immune cells. In this review, 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 …

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 …

Identification of tumor antigens with immunopeptidomics

C Chong, G Coukos, M Bassani-Sternberg - Nature biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
The identification of actionable tumor antigens is indispensable for the development of
several cancer immunotherapies, including T cell receptor–transduced T cells and patient …

Analyzing the Mycobacterium tuberculosis immune response by T-cell receptor clustering with GLIPH2 and genome-wide antigen screening

H Huang, C Wang, F Rubelt, TJ Scriba… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
CD4+ T cells are critical to fighting pathogens, but a comprehensive analysis of human T-
cell specificities is hindered by the diversity of HLA alleles (> 20,000) and the complexity of …