CD8+ T‐cell memory in tumor immunology and immunotherapy

CA Klebanoff, L Gattinoni, NP Restifo - Immunological reviews, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the formation of distinct central, effector,
and exhausted CD8+ T‐cell memory subsets were first described in the setting of acute and …

Human T cell responses against melanoma

T Boon, PG Coulie, BJV Eynde… - Annu. Rev. Immunol., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Many antigens recognized by autologous T lymphocytes have been identified on human
melanoma. Melanoma patients usually mount a spontaneous T cell response against their …

Immunotherapy resistance by inflammation-induced dedifferentiation

A Mehta, YJ Kim, L Robert, J Tsoi, B Comin-Anduix… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
A promising arsenal of targeted and immunotherapy treatments for metastatic melanoma
has emerged over the last decade. With these therapies, we now face new mechanisms of …

Peptides for vaccine development

IW Hamley - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
This review discusses peptide epitopes used as antigens in the development of vaccines in
clinical trials as well as future vaccine candidates. It covers peptides used in potential …

Effector function of human tumor-specific CD8 T cells in melanoma lesions: a state of local functional tolerance

A Zippelius, P Batard, V Rubio-Godoy, G Bioley… - Cancer research, 2004 - AACR
Although tumor-specific CD8 T-cell responses often develop in cancer patients, they rarely
result in tumor eradication. We aimed at studying directly the functional efficacy of tumor …

Strategies of tumor immune evasion

B Seliger - BioDrugs, 2005 - Springer
During the last decade, increased understanding of the molecular mechanisms responsible
for immune activation to protect against challenges by tumor cells has revolutionized the …

Vitiligo puzzle: the pieces fall in place

W Westerhof, M d'Ischia - Pigment Cell Research, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Over the years, the role of biochemical, immunological, genetic, and other biological aspects
in the pathogenesis of vitiligo has been studied. So far, no convincing model describing the …

Vaccination with LAG-3Ig (IMP321) and peptides induces specific CD4 and CD8 T-cell responses in metastatic melanoma patients—report of a phase I/IIa clinical trial

A Legat, H Maby-El Hajjami, P Baumgaertner… - Clinical Cancer …, 2016 - AACR
Purpose: Cancer vaccines aim to generate and maintain antitumor immune responses. We
designed a phase I/IIa clinical trial to test a vaccine formulation composed of Montanide ISA …

Unmodified self antigen triggers human CD8 T cells with stronger tumor reactivity than altered antigen

DE Speiser, P Baumgaertner… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Human cancer vaccines are often prepared with altered “analog” or “heteroclitic” antigens
that have been optimized for HLA class I binding, resulting in enhanced immunogenicity …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide identification of cancer/testis genes and their association with prognosis in a pan-cancer analysis

VL da Silva, AF Fonseca, M Fonseca, TE da Silva… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer/testis (CT) genes are excellent candidates for cancer immunotherapies because of
their restrict expression in normal tissues and the capacity to elicit an immune response …