Challenges in neoantigen-directed therapeutics

L Lybaert, S Lefever, B Fant, E Smits, B De Geest… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A fundamental prerequisite for the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy is the presence of
functional, antigen-specific T cells within the tumor. Neoantigen-directed therapy is a …

[HTML][HTML] Technological advances in cancer immunity: from immunogenomics to single-cell analysis and artificial intelligence

Y Xu, GH Su, D Ma, Y Xiao, ZM Shao… - Signal Transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapies play critical roles in cancer treatment. However, given that only a few
patients respond to immune checkpoint blockades and other immunotherapeutic strategies …

[HTML][HTML] Persistent mutation burden drives sustained anti-tumor immune responses

N Niknafs, A Balan, C Cherry, K Hummelink… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor mutation burden is an imperfect proxy of tumor foreignness and has therefore failed
to consistently demonstrate clinical utility in predicting responses in the context of …

NetMHCpan-4.1 and NetMHCIIpan-4.0: improved predictions of MHC antigen presentation by concurrent motif deconvolution and integration of MS MHC eluted ligand …

B Reynisson, B Alvarez, S Paul, B Peters… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules are expressed on the cell surface, where
they present peptides to T cells, which gives them a key role in the development of T-cell …

Human leukocyte antigen susceptibility map for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

A Nguyen, JK David, SK Maden, MA Wood… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Genetic variability across the three major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes
(human leukocyte antigen A [HLA-A],-B, and-C genes) may affect susceptibility to and …

[HTML][HTML] A transformer-based model to predict peptide–HLA class I binding and optimize mutated peptides for vaccine design

Y Chu, Y Zhang, Q Wang, L Zhang, X Wang… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) can recognize and bind foreign peptides to present them to
specialized immune cells, then initiate an immune response. Computational prediction of the …

Improved prediction of MHC II antigen presentation through integration and motif deconvolution of mass spectrometry MHC eluted ligand data

B Reynisson, C Barra, S Kaabinejadian… - Journal of proteome …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Major histocompatibility complex II (MHC II) molecules play a vital role in the onset and
control of cellular immunity. In a highly selective process, MHC II presents peptides derived …

[HTML][HTML] Durvalumab with platinum-pemetrexed for unresectable pleural mesothelioma: survival, genomic and immunologic analyses from the phase 2 PrE0505 trial

PM Forde, V Anagnostou, Z Sun, SE Dahlberg… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Mesothelioma is a rare and fatal cancer with limited therapeutic options until the recent
approval of combination immune checkpoint blockade. Here we report the results of the …

Targeting public neoantigens for cancer immunotherapy

AH Pearlman, MS Hwang, MF Konig, EHC Hsiue… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Several current immunotherapy approaches target private neoantigens derived from
mutations that are unique to individual patients' tumors. However, immunotherapeutic …

Deep neural networks predict class I major histocompatibility complex epitope presentation and transfer learn neoepitope immunogenicity

BA Albert, Y Yang, XM Shao, D Singh… - Nature machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Identifying neoepitopes that elicit an adaptive immune response is a major bottleneck to
developing personalized cancer vaccines. Experimental validation of candidate …