Tumor microenvironment: barrier or opportunity towards effective cancer therapy

A Tiwari, R Trivedi, SY Lin - Journal of biomedical science, 2022 - Springer
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is a specialized ecosystem of host components, designed
by tumor cells for successful development and metastasis of tumor. With the advent of 3D …

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 …

Mismatch repair deficiency is not sufficient to elicit tumor immunogenicity

PMK Westcott, F Muyas, H Hauck, OC Smith… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
DNA mismatch repair deficiency (MMRd) is associated with a high tumor mutational burden
(TMB) and sensitivity to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy. Nevertheless, most …

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 …

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 …

A large peptidome dataset improves HLA class I epitope prediction across most of the human population

S Sarkizova, S Klaeger, PM Le, LW Li, G Oliveira… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Prediction of HLA epitopes is important for the development of cancer immunotherapies and
vaccines. However, current prediction algorithms have limited predictive power, in part …

Evolution of neoantigen landscape during immune checkpoint blockade in non–small cell lung cancer

V Anagnostou, KN Smith, PM Forde, N Niknafs… - Cancer discovery, 2017 - AACR
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have shown significant therapeutic responses against tumors
containing increased mutation-associated neoantigen load. We have examined the evolving …

Distinct patterns of somatic genome alterations in lung adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas

JD Campbell, A Alexandrov, J Kim, J Wala, AH Berger… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To compare lung adenocarcinoma (ADC) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) and to
identify new drivers of lung carcinogenesis, we examined the exome sequences and copy …

Low neoantigen expression and poor T-cell priming underlie early immune escape in colorectal cancer

PMK Westcott, NJ Sacks, JM Schenkel, ZA Ely, O Smith… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immune evasion is a hallmark of cancer and therapies that restore immune surveillance
have proven highly effective in cancers with high tumor mutation burden (TMB)(for example …

Mass spectrometry profiling of HLA-associated peptidomes in mono-allelic cells enables more accurate epitope prediction

JG Abelin, DB Keskin, S Sarkizova, CR Hartigan… - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
Identification of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-bound peptides by liquid chromatography-
tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) is poised to provide a deep understanding of rules …