Evolutionary divergence of HLA class I genotype impacts efficacy of cancer immunotherapy

D Chowell, C Krishna, F Pierini, V Makarov, NA Rizvi… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Functional diversity of the highly polymorphic human leukocyte antigen class I (HLA-I) genes
underlies successful immunologic control of both infectious disease and cancer. The …

Patient HLA class I genotype influences cancer response to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy

D Chowell, LGT Morris, CM Grigg, JK Weber… - Science, 2018 - science.org
CD8+ T cell–dependent killing of cancer cells requires efficient presentation of tumor
antigens by human leukocyte antigen class I (HLA-I) molecules. However, the extent to …

Strength of immune selection in tumors varies with sex and age

A Castro, RM Pyke, X Zhang, WK Thompson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Individual MHC genotype constrains the mutational landscape during tumorigenesis.
Immune checkpoint inhibition reactivates immunity against tumors that escaped immune …

Antigen discovery and specification of immunodominance hierarchies for MHCII-restricted epitopes

DB Graham, C Luo, DJ O'Connell, A Lefkovith… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Identifying immunodominant T cell epitopes remains a significant challenge in the context of
infectious disease, autoimmunity, and immuno-oncology. To address the challenge of …

[PDF][PDF] Germline HLA landscape does not predict efficacy of pembrolizumab monotherapy across solid tumor types

A Chhibber, L Huang, H Zhang, J Xu, R Cristescu… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
We evaluated the impact of class I and class II human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genotypes,
heterozygosity, and diversity on the efficacy of pembrolizumab. Seventeen pembrolizumab …

[HTML][HTML] Individual HLA heterogeneity and its implications for cellular immune evasion in cancer and beyond

S Pagliuca, C Gurnari, MT Rubio, V Visconte… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Structural and functional variability of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is the foundation for
competent adaptive immune responses against pathogen and tumor antigens as it assures …

Advantage of rare HLA supertype in HIV disease progression

E Trachtenberg, B Korber, C Sollars, TB Kepler… - Nature medicine, 2003 - nature.com
The highly polymorphic human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules help to determine
the specificity and repertoire of the immune response. The great diversity of these antigen …

Mutant MHC class II epitopes drive therapeutic immune responses to cancer

S Kreiter, M Vormehr, N Van de Roemer, M Diken… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Tumour-specific mutations are ideal targets for cancer immunotherapy as they lack
expression in healthy tissues and can potentially be recognized as neo-antigens by the …

Lack of detectable neoantigen depletion signals in the untreated cancer genome

J Van den Eynden, A Jiménez-Sánchez, ML Miller… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Somatic mutations can result in the formation of neoantigens, immunogenic peptides that
are presented on the tumor cell surface by HLA molecules. These mutations are expected to …

Landscape of tumor-infiltrating T cell repertoire of human cancers

B Li, T Li, JC Pignon, B Wang, J Wang, SA Shukla… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We developed a computational method to infer the complementarity-determining region 3
(CDR3) sequences of tumor-infiltrating T cells in 9,142 RNA-seq samples across 29 cancer …