Antigen presentation in cancer: insights into tumour immunogenicity and immune evasion

S Jhunjhunwala, C Hammer, L Delamarre - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade, which blocks inhibitory signals of T cell activation, has shown
tremendous success in treating cancer, although success still remains limited to a fraction of …

Top 10 challenges in cancer immunotherapy

PS Hegde, DS Chen - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Cancer immunotherapy is a validated and critically important approach for treating patients
with cancer. Given the vast research and clinical investigation efforts dedicated to advancing …

Epigenetic silencing by SETDB1 suppresses tumour intrinsic immunogenicity

GK Griffin, J Wu, A Iracheta-Vellve, JC Patti, J Hsu… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Epigenetic dysregulation is a defining feature of tumorigenesis that is implicated in immune
escape,. Here, to identify factors that modulate the immune sensitivity of cancer cells, we …

Interplay of somatic alterations and immune infiltration modulates response to PD-1 blockade in advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma

DA Braun, Y Hou, Z Bakouny, M Ficial… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
PD-1 blockade has transformed the management of advanced clear cell renal cell
carcinoma (ccRCC), but the drivers and resistors of the PD-1 response remain incompletely …

Targeting the HIF2–VEGF axis in renal cell carcinoma

TK Choueiri, WG Kaelin Jr - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Insights into the role of the tumor suppressor pVHL in oxygen sensing motivated the testing
of drugs that target the transcription factor HIF or HIF-responsive growth factors, such as …

Beyond conventional immune-checkpoint inhibition—novel immunotherapies for renal cell carcinoma

DA Braun, Z Bakouny, L Hirsch, R Flippot… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
The management of advanced-stage renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has been transformed by
the development of immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Nonetheless, most patients do not …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying and targeting human tumor antigens for T cell-based immunotherapy of solid tumors

V Leko, SA Rosenberg - Cancer Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cancer elimination in humans can be achieved with immunotherapy that relies on T
lymphocyte-mediated recognition of tumor antigens. Several types of these antigens have …

Determinants of anti-PD-1 response and resistance in clear cell renal cell carcinoma

L Au, E Hatipoglu, MR de Massy, K Litchfield, G Beattie… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
ADAPTeR is a prospective, phase II study of nivolumab (anti-PD-1) in 15 treatment-naive
patients (115 multiregion tumor samples) with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma …

Alternative tumour-specific antigens

CC Smith, SR Selitsky, S Chai, PM Armistead… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The study of tumour-specific antigens (TSAs) as targets for antitumour therapies has
accelerated within the past decade. The most commonly studied class of TSAs are those …

Von Hippel–Lindau disease: insights into oxygen sensing, protein degradation, and cancer

WG Kaelin - The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Germline loss-of-function mutations of the VHL tumor suppressor gene cause von Hippel–
Lindau disease, which is associated with an increased risk of hemangioblastomas, clear cell …