Identification of neoantigens for individualized therapeutic cancer vaccines

F Lang, B Schrörs, M Löwer, Ö Türeci… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Somatic mutations in cancer cells can generate tumour-specific neoepitopes, which are
recognized by autologous T cells in the host. As neoepitopes are not subject to central …

Opportunities and obstacles for deep learning in biology and medicine

T Ching, DS Himmelstein… - Journal of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Deep learning describes a class of machine learning algorithms that are capable of
combining raw inputs into layers of intermediate features. These algorithms have recently …

Gut microbiota signatures are associated with toxicity to combined CTLA-4 and PD-1 blockade

MC Andrews, CPM Duong, V Gopalakrishnan… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment with combined immune checkpoint blockade (CICB) targeting CTLA-4
and PD-1 is associated with clinical benefit across tumor types, but also a high rate of …

Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of checkpoint blockade response in advanced non-small cell lung cancer

A Ravi, MD Hellmann, MB Arniella, M Holton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Anti-PD-1/PD-L1 agents have transformed the treatment landscape of advanced
non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). To expand our understanding of the molecular features …

The PD-1 expression balance between effector and regulatory T cells predicts the clinical efficacy of PD-1 blockade therapies

S Kumagai, Y Togashi, T Kamada, E Sugiyama… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade has provided a paradigm shift in cancer therapy, but the
success of this approach is very variable; therefore, biomarkers predictive of clinical efficacy …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2-derived peptides define heterologous and COVID-19-induced T cell recognition

A Nelde, T Bilich, JS Heitmann, Y Maringer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
T cell immunity is central for the control of viral infections. To characterize T cell immunity,
but also for the development of vaccines, identification of exact viral T cell epitopes is …

Key parameters of tumor epitope immunogenicity revealed through a consortium approach improve neoantigen prediction

DK Wells, MM van Buuren, KK Dang… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Many approaches to identify therapeutically relevant neoantigens couple tumor sequencing
with bioinformatic algorithms and inferred rules of tumor epitope immunogenicity. However …

Neoantigen vaccine generates intratumoral T cell responses in phase Ib glioblastoma trial

DB Keskin, AJ Anandappa, J Sun, I Tirosh… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Neoantigens, which are derived from tumour-specific protein-coding mutations, are exempt
from central tolerance, can generate robust immune responses, and can function as bona …

NetTCR-2.0 enables accurate prediction of TCR-peptide binding by using paired TCRα and β sequence data

A Montemurro, V Schuster, HR Povlsen… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Prediction of T-cell receptor (TCR) interactions with MHC-peptide complexes remains highly
challenging. This challenge is primarily due to three dominant factors: data accuracy, data …

Neoantigen-directed immune escape in lung cancer evolution

R Rosenthal, EL Cadieux, R Salgado, MA Bakir… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The interplay between an evolving cancer and a dynamic immune microenvironment
remains unclear. Here we analyse 258 regions from 88 early-stage, untreated non-small-cell …