Activation of human endogenous retroviruses and its physiological consequences

N Dopkins, DF Nixon - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are abundant sequences that persist within the
human genome as remnants of ancient retroviral infections. These sequences became fixed …

Computational immunogenomic approaches to predict response to cancer immunotherapies

V Addala, F Newell, JV Pearson, A Redwood… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer immunogenomics is an emerging field that bridges genomics and immunology. The
establishment of large-scale genomic collaborative efforts along with the development of …

Repetitive DNA sequence detection and its role in the human genome

X Liao, W Zhu, J Zhou, H Li, X Xu, B Zhang… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Repetitive DNA sequences playing critical roles in driving evolution, inducing variation, and
regulating gene expression. In this review, we summarized the definition, arrangement, and …

Guadecitabine plus ipilimumab in unresectable melanoma: five-year follow-up and integrated multi-omic analysis in the phase 1b NIBIT-M4 trial

TMR Noviello, AM Di Giacomo, FP Caruso… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Association with hypomethylating agents is a promising strategy to improve the efficacy of
immune checkpoint inhibitors-based therapy. The NIBIT-M4 was a phase Ib, dose-escalation …

LINE-1 retrotransposition and its deregulation in cancers: implications for therapeutic opportunities

C Mendez-Dorantes, KH Burns - Genes & development, 2023 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Abstract Long interspersed element 1 (LINE-1) is the only protein-coding transposon that is
active in humans. LINE-1 propagates in the genome using RNA intermediates via …

Splicing neoantigen discovery with SNAF reveals shared targets for cancer immunotherapy

G Li, S Mahajan, S Ma, ED Jeffery, X Zhang… - Science Translational …, 2024 - science.org
Immunotherapy has emerged as a crucial strategy to combat cancer by “reprogramming” a
patient's own immune system. Although immunotherapy is typically reserved for patients with …

Towards targeting Transposable elements for cancer therapy

Y Liang, X Qu, NM Shah, T Wang - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) represent almost half of the human genome. Historically
deemed 'junk DNA', recent technological advancements have stimulated a wave of research …

Using long-read CAGE sequencing to profile cryptic-promoter-derived transcripts and their contribution to the immunopeptidome

JH Maeng, HJ Jang, AY Du, SC Tzeng… - Genome …, 2023 - genome.cshlp.org
Recent studies have shown that the noncoding genome can produce unannotated proteins
as antigens that induce immune response. One major source of this activity is the aberrant …

[HTML][HTML] Locus-level L1 DNA methylation profiling reveals the epigenetic and transcriptional interplay between L1s and their integration sites

S Lanciano, C Philippe, A Sarkar, D Pratella… - Cell Genomics, 2024 - cell.com
Summary Long interspersed element 1 (L1) retrotransposons are implicated in human
disease and evolution. Their global activity is repressed by DNA methylation, but …

Prediction of tumor-reactive T cell receptors from scRNA-seq data for personalized T cell therapy

CL Tan, K Lindner, T Boschert, Z Meng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The identification of patient-derived, tumor-reactive T cell receptors (TCRs) as a basis for
personalized transgenic T cell therapies remains a time-and cost-intensive endeavor …