The landscape of T cell antigens for cancer immunotherapy

A Peri, N Salomon, Y Wolf, S Kreiter, M Diken… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
The remarkable capacity of immunotherapies to induce durable regression in some patients
with metastatic cancer relies heavily on T cell recognition of tumor-presented antigens. As …

Identification of tumor antigens with immunopeptidomics

C Chong, G Coukos, M Bassani-Sternberg - Nature biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
The identification of actionable tumor antigens is indispensable for the development of
several cancer immunotherapies, including T cell receptor–transduced T cells and patient …

Standardized annotation of translated open reading frames

JM Mudge, J Ruiz-Orera, JR Prensner, MA Brunet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To the Editor—Ribosome profiling (Ribo-seq) has extended our understanding of the
translational 'vocabulary'of the human genome, uncovering thousands of open reading …

Evolutionary origins and interactomes of human, young microproteins and small peptides translated from short open reading frames

CL Sandmann, JF Schulz, J Ruiz-Orera, M Kirchner… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
All species continuously evolve short open reading frames (sORFs) that can be templated
for protein synthesis and may provide raw materials for evolutionary adaptation. We …

Promises and challenges of adoptive T-cell therapies for solid tumours

M Morotti, A Albukhari, A Alsaadi, M Artibani… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and, despite new targeted therapies and
immunotherapies, many patients with advanced-stage-or high-risk cancers still die, owing to …

A few good peptides: MHC class I-based cancer immunosurveillance and immunoevasion

D Dersh, J Hollý, JW Yewdell - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The remarkable success of immune checkpoint inhibitors demonstrates the potential of
tumour-specific CD8+ T cells to prevent and treat cancer. Although the number of lives …

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 …

The immunopeptidome landscape associated with T cell infiltration, inflammation and immune editing in lung cancer

AI Kraemer, C Chong, F Huber, HS Pak, BJ Stevenson… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
One key barrier to improving efficacy of personalized cancer immunotherapies that are
dependent on the tumor antigenic landscape remains patient stratification. Although patients …

Tryptophan depletion results in tryptophan-to-phenylalanine substitutants

A Pataskar, J Champagne, R Nagel, J Kenski, M Laos… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Activated T cells secrete interferon-γ, which triggers intracellular tryptophan shortage by
upregulating the indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) enzyme,,–. Here we show that …

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 …