Antigen presentation in cancer—mechanisms and clinical implications for immunotherapy

K Yang, A Halima, TA Chan - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past decade, the emergence of effective immunotherapies has revolutionized the
clinical management of many types of cancers. However, long-term durable tumour control …

Hallmarks of the aging T‐cell system

H Zhang, CM Weyand, JJ Goronzy - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptive immune system has the enormous challenge to protect the host through the
generation and differentiation of pathogen‐specific short‐lived effector T cells while in …

Improved prediction of immune checkpoint blockade efficacy across multiple cancer types

D Chowell, SK Yoo, C Valero, A Pastore… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Only a fraction of patients with cancer respond to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB)
treatment, but current decision-making procedures have limited accuracy. In this study, we …

Multidimensional single-cell analysis of human peripheral blood reveals characteristic features of the immune system landscape in aging and frailty

OJ Luo, W Lei, G Zhu, Z Ren, Y Xu, C Xiao, H Zhang… - Nature Aging, 2022 - nature.com
Frailty is an intermediate status of the human aging process, associated with
decompensated homeostasis and death. The immune phenotype of frailty and its underlying …

The immuneML ecosystem for machine learning analysis of adaptive immune receptor repertoires

M Pavlović, L Scheffer, K Motwani, C Kanduri… - Nature Machine …, 2021 - nature.com
Adaptive immune receptor repertoires (AIRR) are key targets for biomedical research as
they record past and ongoing adaptive immune responses. The capacity of machine …

[PDF][PDF] Prevalent and immunodominant CD8 T cell epitopes are conserved in SARS-CoV-2 variants

S Meyer, I Blaas, RC Bollineni, M Delic-Sarac, TT Tran… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC) is driven by mutations that
mediate escape from neutralizing antibodies. There is also evidence that mutations can …

The similarity of class II HLA genotypes defines patterns of autoreactivity in idiopathic bone marrow failure disorders

S Pagliuca, C Gurnari, H Awada… - Blood, The Journal …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
Idiopathic aplastic anemia (IAA) is a rare autoimmune bone marrow failure (BMF) disorder
initiated by a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-restricted T-cell response to unknown …

Benefit and toxicity of programmed death‐1 blockade vary by ethnicity in patients with advanced melanoma: an international multicentre observational study

X Bai, AN Shoushtari, A Betof Warner… - British Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Programmed cell death receptor‐1 (PD‐1) monotherapy is a standard treatment
for advanced cutaneous melanoma, but its efficacy and toxicity are defined in white …

[HTML][HTML] Next-generation sequencing: unraveling genetic mechanisms that shape cancer immunotherapy efficacy

A Halima, W Vuong, TA Chan - The Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Immunity is governed by fundamental genetic processes. These processes shape the nature
of immune cells and set the rules that dictate the myriad complex cellular interactions that …

[HTML][HTML] The innate immune system in human kidney inflammaging

V Sepe, C Libetta, M Gregorini, T Rampino - Journal of nephrology, 2022 - Springer
Elderly individuals with chronic disorders tend to develop inflammaging, a condition
associated with elevated levels of blood inflammatory markers, and increased susceptibility …