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 …

Advances in the development of personalized neoantigen-based therapeutic cancer vaccines

E Blass, PA Ott - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Within the past decade, the field of immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of many
cancers with the development and regulatory approval of various immune-checkpoint …

Escape from recognition of SARS-CoV-2 variant spike epitopes but overall preservation of T cell immunity

C Riou, R Keeton, T Moyo-Gwete… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
SARS-CoV-2 variants that escape neutralization and potentially affect vaccine efficacy have
emerged. T cell responses play a role in protection from reinfection and severe disease, but …

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 …

Improved methods for predicting peptide binding affinity to MHC class II molecules

KK Jensen, M Andreatta, P Marcatili, S Buus… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC‐II) molecules are expressed on the surface
of professional antigen‐presenting cells where they display peptides to T helper cells, which …

Alternative tumour-specific antigens

CC Smith, SR Selitsky, S Chai, PM Armistead… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The study of tumour-specific antigens (TSAs) as targets for antitumour therapies has
accelerated within the past decade. The most commonly studied class of TSAs are those …

Predicting HLA class II antigen presentation through integrated deep learning

B Chen, MS Khodadoust, N Olsson, LE Wagar… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Accurate prediction of antigen presentation by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II
molecules would be valuable for vaccine development and cancer immunotherapies …

IEDB-AR: immune epitope database—analysis resource in 2019

SK Dhanda, S Mahajan, S Paul, Z Yan… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Immune Epitope Database Analysis Resource (IEDB-AR, http://tools. iedb. org/)
is a companion website to the IEDB that provides computational tools focused on the …

Neoantigens: promising targets for cancer therapy

N Xie, G Shen, W Gao, Z Huang, C Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in neoantigen research have accelerated the development and regulatory
approval of tumor immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, adoptive cell therapy and …

Robust prediction of HLA class II epitopes by deep motif deconvolution of immunopeptidomes

J Racle, J Michaux, GA Rockinger, M Arnaud… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Predictions of epitopes presented by class II human leukocyte antigen molecules (HLA-II)
have limited accuracy, restricting vaccine and therapy design. Here we combined unbiased …