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 …

The evolving landscape of biomarkers for checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy

JJ Havel, D Chowell, TA Chan - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Checkpoint inhibitor-based immunotherapies that target cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4
(CTLA4) or the programmed cell death 1 (PD1) pathway have achieved impressive success …

Landscape and dynamics of single immune cells in hepatocellular carcinoma

Q Zhang, Y He, N Luo, SJ Patel, Y Han, R Gao… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The immune microenvironment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is poorly characterized.
Combining two single-cell RNA sequencing technologies, we produced transcriptomes of …

TIMER: a web server for comprehensive analysis of tumor-infiltrating immune cells

T Li, J Fan, B Wang, N Traugh, Q Chen, JS Liu, B Li… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
Recent clinical successes of cancer immunotherapy necessitate the investigation of the
interaction between malignant cells and the host immune system. However, elucidation of …

Tumour heterogeneity and metastasis at single-cell resolution

DA Lawson, K Kessenbrock, RT Davis… - Nature cell …, 2018 - nature.com
Tumours comprise a heterogeneous collection of cells with distinct genetic and phenotypic
properties that can differentially promote progression, metastasis and drug resistance …

Molecular and pharmacological modulators of the tumor immune contexture revealed by deconvolution of RNA-seq data

F Finotello, C Mayer, C Plattner, G Laschober… - Genome medicine, 2019 - Springer
We introduce quanTIseq, a method to quantify the fractions of ten immune cell types from
bulk RNA-sequencing data. quanTIseq was extensively validated in blood and tumor …

TIP: a web server for resolving tumor immunophenotype profiling

L Xu, C Deng, B Pang, X Zhang, W Liu, G Liao, H Yuan… - Cancer research, 2018 - AACR
Systematically tracking the tumor immunophenotype is required to understand the
mechanisms of cancer immunity and improve clinical benefit of cancer immunotherapy …

Simultaneous enumeration of cancer and immune cell types from bulk tumor gene expression data

J Racle, K de Jonge, P Baumgaertner, DE Speiser… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Immune cells infiltrating tumors can have important impact on tumor progression and
response to therapy. We present an efficient algorithm to simultaneously estimate the …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-cancer immunogenomic analyses reveal genotype-immunophenotype relationships and predictors of response to checkpoint blockade

P Charoentong, F Finotello, M Angelova, C Mayer… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Summary The Cancer Genome Atlas revealed the genomic landscapes of human cancers.
In parallel, immunotherapy is transforming the treatment of advanced cancers. Unfortunately …

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 …