Computational immunogenomic approaches to predict response to cancer immunotherapies

V Addala, F Newell, JV Pearson, A Redwood… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer immunogenomics is an emerging field that bridges genomics and immunology. The
establishment of large-scale genomic collaborative efforts along with the development of …

The future of affordable cancer immunotherapy

N Schaft, J Dörrie, G Schuler… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The treatment of cancer was revolutionized within the last two decades by utilizing the
mechanism of the immune system against malignant tissue in so-called cancer …

RNA splicing and cancer

E Wang, I Aifantis - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
RNA splicing is an essential process that governs many aspects of cellular proliferation,
survival, and differentiation. Considering the importance of RNA splicing in gene regulation …

Aberrant splicing isoforms detected by full-length transcriptome sequencing as transcripts of potential neoantigens in non-small cell lung cancer

M Oka, L Xu, T Suzuki, T Yoshikawa, H Sakamoto… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Long-read sequencing of full-length cDNAs enables the detection of structures
of aberrant splicing isoforms in cancer cells. These isoforms are occasionally translated …

Vaccines for immunoprevention of DNA mismatch repair deficient cancers

A Hernandez-Sanchez, M Grossman… - Journal for …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The development of cancer vaccines to induce tumor-antigen specific immune responses
was sparked by the identification of antigens specific to or overexpressed in cancer cells …

Proteogenomic discovery of neoantigens facilitates personalized multi-antigen targeted T cell immunotherapy for brain tumors

S Rivero-Hinojosa, M Grant, A Panigrahi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Neoantigen discovery in pediatric brain tumors is hampered by their low mutational burden
and scant tissue availability. Here we develop a proteogenomic approach combining tumor …

[HTML][HTML] TMB in NSCLC: a broken dream?

S Bravaccini, G Bronte, P Ulivi - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although immune checkpoint inhibitors have changed the treatment paradigm of a variety of
cancers, including non-small-cell lung cancer, not all patients respond to immunotherapy in …

Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA): an origin of tumor heterogeneity, genomic remodeling, and drug resistance

LT Pecorino, RGW Verhaak, A Henssen… - Biochemical Society …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
The genome of cancer cells contains circular extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) elements not
found in normal cells. Analysis of clinical samples reveal they are common in most cancers …

Coming in from the cold: overcoming the hostile immune microenvironment of medulloblastoma

T Eisemann, RJ Wechsler-Reya - Genes & Development, 2022 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Medulloblastoma is an aggressive brain tumor that occurs predominantly in children.
Despite intensive therapy, many patients die of the disease, and novel therapies are …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative RNA splicing defects in pediatric cancers: new insights in tumorigenesis and potential therapeutic vulnerabilities

AS Venkataramany, KM Schieffer, K Lee, CE Cottrell… - Annals of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Compared with adult cancers, pediatric cancers are uniquely characterized by
a genomically stable landscape and lower tumor mutational burden. Alternative splicing …