Antitumour dendritic cell vaccination in a priming and boosting approach

A Harari, M Graciotti, M Bassani-Sternberg… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Mobilizing antitumour immunity through vaccination potentially constitutes a powerful
anticancer strategy but has not yet provided robust clinical benefits in large patient …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Neoantigen-targeted CD8+ T cell responses with PD-1 blockade therapy

C Puig-Saus, B Sennino, S Peng, CL Wang, Z Pan… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Neoantigens are peptides derived from non-synonymous mutations presented by human
leukocyte antigens (HLAs), which are recognized by antitumour T cells,,,,,,,,,,,,–. The large …

[HTML][HTML] First-line durvalumab and tremelimumab with chemotherapy in RAS-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer: a phase 1b/2 trial

M Thibaudin, JD Fumet, B Chibaudel, J Bennouna… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Although patients with microsatellite instable metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) benefit from
immune checkpoint blockade, chemotherapy with targeted therapies remains the only …

[HTML][HTML] Aberrant phase separation and nucleolar dysfunction in rare genetic diseases

MA Mensah, H Niskanen, AP Magalhaes, S Basu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Thousands of genetic variants in protein-coding genes have been linked to disease.
However, the functional impact of most variants is unknown as they occur within intrinsically …

[HTML][HTML] The CD155/TIGIT axis promotes and maintains immune evasion in neoantigen-expressing pancreatic cancer

WA Freed-Pastor, LJ Lambert, ZA Ely, NB Pattada… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The CD155/TIGIT axis can be co-opted during immune evasion in chronic viral infections
and cancer. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal malignancy, and immune …

The genomic and immune landscape of long-term survivors of high-grade serous ovarian cancer

DW Garsed, A Pandey, S Fereday, CJ Kennedy… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Fewer than half of all patients with advanced-stage high-grade serous ovarian cancers
(HGSCs) survive more than five years after diagnosis, but those who have an exceptionally …

[HTML][HTML] Radiotherapy-exposed CD8+ and CD4+ neoantigens enhance tumor control

C Lhuillier, NP Rudqvist, T Yamazaki… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Neoantigens generated by somatic nonsynonymous mutations are key targets of tumor-
specific T cells, but only a small number of mutations predicted to be immunogenic are …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning methods and harmonized datasets improve immunogenic neoantigen prediction

M Müller, F Huber, M Arnaud, AI Kraemer, ER Altimiras… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
The accurate selection of neoantigens that bind to class I human leukocyte antigen (HLA)
and are recognized by autologous T cells is a crucial step in many cancer immunotherapy …