Cancer immunoediting and immune dysregulation in multiple myeloma

K Nakamura, MJ Smyth… - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Avoiding immune destruction is a hallmark of cancer. Over the past few years, significant
advances have been made in understanding immune dysfunction and immunosuppression …

Cancer/testis antigens: an expanding family of targets for cancer immunotherapy

MJ Scanlan, AO Gure, AA Jungbluth… - Immunological …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer/testis (CT) antigens are a category of tumor antigens with normal expression
restricted to male germ cells in the testis but not in adult somatic tissues. In some cases, CT …

NY-ESO-1–specific TCR–engineered T cells mediate sustained antigen-specific antitumor effects in myeloma

AP Rapoport, EA Stadtmauer, GK Binder-Scholl… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Despite recent therapeutic advances, multiple myeloma (MM) remains largely incurable.
Here we report results of a phase I/II trial to evaluate the safety and activity of autologous T …

[HTML][HTML] The biology of cancer testis antigens: putative function, regulation and therapeutic potential

E Fratta, S Coral, A Covre, G Parisi, F Colizzi… - Molecular …, 2011 - Elsevier
Cancer testis antigens (CTA) are a large family of tumor-associated antigens expressed in
human tumors of different histological origin, but not in normal tissues except for testis and …

Targeting cancers through TCR-peptide/MHC interactions

Q He, X Jiang, X Zhou, J Weng - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2019 - Springer
Adoptive T cell therapy has achieved dramatic success in a clinic, and the Food and Drug
Administration approved two chimeric antigen receptor-engineered T cell (CAR-T) therapies …

Tumor‐specific shared antigenic peptides recognized by human T cells

P Van Der Bruggen, Y Zhang, P Chaux… - Immunological …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The first tumor‐specific shared antigens and the cancer‐germline genes that code for these
antigens were identified with antitumor cytolytic T lymphocytes obtained from cancer …

Treatment of multiple myeloma

B Barlogie, J Shaughnessy, G Tricot, J Jacobson… - Blood, 2004 - ashpublications.org
Autologous peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC)–supported high-dose melphalan is now
considered standard therapy for myeloma, at least for younger patients. The markedly …

MAGE-A tumor antigens target p53 transactivation function through histone deacetylase recruitment and confer resistance to chemotherapeutic agents

M Monte, M Simonatto, LY Peche… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
The MAGE gene family is characterized by a conserved domain (MAGE Homology Domain).
A subset of highly homologous MAGE genes (group A; MAGE-A) belong to the chromosome …

A Comprehensive Expression Analysis of Cancer Testis Antigens in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Revels MAGEA3/6 as a Marker for Recurrence

FT Zamunér, BTR Karia, CZ De Oliveira… - Molecular cancer …, 2015 - AACR
Despite significant advances in the treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
(HNSCC), the survival rate has not changed in the last decades. Therefore, the development …

Long‐term safety and activity of NY-ESO‐1 SPEAR T cells after autologous stem cell transplant for myeloma

EA Stadtmauer, TH Faitg, DE Lowther… - Blood …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
This study in patients with relapsed, refractory, or high-risk multiple myeloma (MM)
evaluated the safety and activity of autologous T cells engineered to express an affinity …