TMB or not TMB as a biomarker: That is the question

A Addeo, A Friedlaender, GL Banna… - Critical reviews in oncology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized the landscape of therapeutic
options for many cancers. These treatments have demonstrated improved efficacy and often …

Neoantigens: promising targets for cancer therapy

N **e, G Shen, W Gao, Z Huang, C Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in neoantigen research have accelerated the development and regulatory
approval of tumor immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, adoptive cell therapy and …

The association between tumor mutational burden and prognosis is dependent on treatment context

C Valero, M Lee, D Hoen, J Wang, Z Nadeem, N Patel… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In multiple cancer types, high tumor mutational burden (TMB) is associated with longer
survival after treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). The association of TMB with …

Toll-like receptor 9 agonists in cancer

L Karapetyan, JJ Luke, D Davar - OncoTargets and therapy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) is a pattern recognition receptor that is predominantly
located intracellularly in immune cells, including dendritic cells, macrophages, natural killer …

Impact of high tumor mutational burden in solid tumors and challenges for biomarker application

MG McNamara, T Jacobs, A Lamarca, RA Hubner… - Cancer treatment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurate identification of patients with solid tumors likely to respond to immunotherapy is
crucial. Tumor mutational burden (TMB) measures the number of somatic mutations in a …

Clinical implications of aberrant PD-1 and CTLA4 expression for cancer immunity and prognosis: a pan-cancer study

JN Liu, XS Kong, T Huang, R Wang, W Li… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Combination therapy with inhibitors of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein (CTLA) 4
and programmed death (PD)-1 has demonstrated efficacy in cancer patients. However, there …

Insertions and deletions: Computational methods, evolutionary dynamics, and biological applications

BD Redelings, I Holmes, G Lunter… - Molecular biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Insertions and deletions constitute the second most important source of natural genomic
variation. Insertions and deletions make up to 25% of genomic variants in humans and are …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic and transcriptomic profiling indicates the prognosis significance of mutational signature for TMB-high subtype in Chinese patients with gastric cancer

Y Cheng, D Bu, Q Zhang, R Sun, S Lyle, G Zhao… - Journal of advanced …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Gastric cancer (GC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in China
and immunotherapy emerging as a revolutionary treatment for GC recently. Tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of three tumor antigens and immune subtypes for mRNA vaccine development in diffuse glioma

Q Zhou, X Yan, H Zhu, Z **n, J Zhao, W Shen, W Yin… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Diffuse glioma patients have high mortality and recurrence despite multimodal
therapies. This study aims to identify the potential tumor antigens for mRNA vaccines and …

A workflow to study mechanistic indicators for driver gene prediction with Moonlight

M Nourbakhsh, A Saksager, N Tom… - Briefings in …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Prediction of driver genes (tumor suppressors and oncogenes) is an essential step in
understanding cancer development and discovering potential novel treatments. We recently …