Overview on clinical relevance of intra-tumor heterogeneity

G Stanta, S Bonin - Frontiers in medicine, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Today, clinical evaluation of tumor heterogeneity is an emergent issue to improve clinical
oncology. In particular, intra-tumor heterogeneity (ITH) is closely related to cancer …

The immunological conundrum of endogenous retroelements

G Kassiotis - Annual review of immunology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Our defenses against infection rely on the ability of the immune system to distinguish
invading pathogens from self. This task is exceptionally challenging, if not seemingly …

Radiation therapy enhances immunotherapy response in microsatellite stable colorectal and pancreatic adenocarcinoma in a phase II trial

AR Parikh, A Szabolcs, JN Allen, JW Clark, JY Wo… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Overcoming intrinsic resistance to immune checkpoint blockade for microsatellite stable
(MSS) colorectal cancer (CRC) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains …

Comprehensive identification of transposable element insertions using multiple sequencing technologies

C Chu, R Borges-Monroy, VV Viswanadham… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) help shape the structure and function of the human genome.
When inserted into some locations, TEs may disrupt gene regulation and cause diseases …

Reverse transcriptase inhibition disrupts repeat element life cycle in colorectal cancer

M Rajurkar, AR Parikh, A Solovyov, E You, AS Kulkarni… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Altered RNA expression of repetitive sequences and retrotransposition are frequently seen
in colorectal cancer, implicating a functional importance of repeat activity in cancer …

HERVs and cancer—A comprehensive review of the relationship of human endogenous retroviruses and human cancers

E Stricker, EC Peckham-Gregory, ME Scheurer - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Genomic instability and genetic mutations can lead to exhibition of several cancer hallmarks
in affected cells such as sustained proliferative signaling, evasion of growth suppression …

Frontiers in cancer immunotherapy—a symposium report

J Cable, B Greenbaum, D Pe'er… - Annals of the New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer immunotherapy has dramatically changed the approach to cancer treatment. The
aim of targeting the immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells has afforded …

Satellite repeat RNA expression in epithelial ovarian cancer associates with a tumor-immunosuppressive phenotype

RL Porter, S Sun, MN Flores, E Berzolla… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Aberrant expression of viral-like repeat elements is a common feature of epithelial cancers,
and the substantial diversity of repeat species provides a distinct view of the cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Global cancer transcriptome quantifies repeat element polarization between immunotherapy responsive and T cell suppressive classes

A Solovyov, N Vabret, KS Arora, A Snyder, SA Funt… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
It has been posited that anti-tumoral innate activation is driven by derepression of
endogenous repeats. We compared RNA sequencing protocols to assess repeat …

LTR retroelement expansion of the human cancer transcriptome and immunopeptidome revealed by de novo transcript assembly

J Attig, GR Young, L Hosie, D Perkins… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
Dysregulated endogenous retroelements (EREs) are increasingly implicated in the initiation,
progression, and immune surveillance of human cancer. However, incomplete knowledge of …