Tumor microenvironment: barrier or opportunity towards effective cancer therapy

A Tiwari, R Trivedi, SY Lin - Journal of biomedical science, 2022 - Springer
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is a specialized ecosystem of host components, designed
by tumor cells for successful development and metastasis of tumor. With the advent of 3D …

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 …

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 …

Universal immunotherapeutic strategy for hepatocellular carcinoma with exosome vaccines that engage adaptive and innate immune responses

B Zuo, Y Zhang, K Zhao, L Wu, H Qi, R Yang… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Background Personalized immunotherapy utilizing cancer vaccines tailored to the tumors of
individual patients holds promise for tumors with high genetic heterogeneity, potentially …

Towards new horizons: characterization, classification and implications of the tumour antigenic repertoire

SP Haen, MW Löffler, HG Rammensee… - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint inhibition provides an unmatched level of durable clinical efficacy in
various malignancies. Such therapies promote the activation of antigen-specific T cells …

Beneficial autoimmunity improves cancer prognosis

L Zitvogel, C Perreault, OJ Finn… - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
Many tumour antigens that do not arise from cancer cell-specific mutations are targets of
humoral and cellular immunity despite their expression on non-malignant cells. Thus, in …

Personalized neoantigen vaccine prevents postoperative recurrence in hepatocellular carcinoma patients with vascular invasion

Z Cai, X Su, L Qiu, Z Li, X Li, X Dong, F Wei, Y Zhou… - Molecular Cancer, 2021 - Springer
Background Clinically, prophylactic anti-recurrence treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma
(HCC) patients after radical surgery are extremely limited. Neoantigen based vaccine can …

[HTML][HTML] HLA Ligand Atlas: a benign reference of HLA-presented peptides to improve T-cell-based cancer immunotherapy

A Marcu, L Bichmann, L Kuchenbecker… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The human leucocyte antigen (HLA) complex controls adaptive immunity by
presenting defined fractions of the intracellular and extracellular protein content to immune …

Atypical acute myeloid leukemia-specific transcripts generate shared and immunogenic MHC class-I-associated epitopes

G Ehx, JD Larouche, C Durette, JP Laverdure… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has not benefited from innovative immunotherapies, mainly
because of the lack of actionable immune targets. Using an original proteogenomic …

AT cell receptor targeting a recurrent driver mutation in FLT3 mediates elimination of primary human acute myeloid leukemia in vivo

E Giannakopoulou, M Lehander, S Virding Culleton… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the most frequent leukemia in adults, is driven by recurrent
somatically acquired genetic lesions in a restricted number of genes. Treatment with tyrosine …