Tumor immune microenvironment and immunotherapy
Guest Editors: Zlatko Trajanoski and Noel de Miranda
This collection of articles has not been sponsored and articles have undergone the journal’s standard peer-review process. The Guest Editors declare that they have no competing interests. Guest Editors serve an advisory role to guide the scope of the special issue and commissioned content; final editorial decisions lie with the Editor.
pTuneos: prioritizing tumor neoantigens from next-generation sequencing data
Cancer neoantigens are expressed only in cancer cells and presented on the tumor cell surface in complex with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I proteins for recognition by cytotoxic T cells. Accur...Genome Medicine 2019 11:67Best practices for bioinformatic characterization of neoantigens for clinical utility
Neoantigens are newly formed peptides created from somatic mutations that are capable of inducing tumor-specific T cell recognition. Recently, researchers and clinicians have leveraged next generation sequenci...Genome Medicine 2019 11:56- Genome Medicine 2019 11:51
The good, the bad, and the ugly: hyperprogression in cancer patients following immune checkpoint therapy
Immune checkpoint blockade therapy can elicit robust and durable responses in a variety of cancer types. While many patients do not respond, recent reports highlight a distinct group of patients whose tumors u...Genome Medicine 2019 11:43Evolving neoantigen profiles in colorectal cancers with DNA repair defects
Neoantigens that arise as a consequence of tumor-specific mutations can be recognized by T lymphocytes leading to effective immune surveillance. In colorectal cancer (CRC) and other tumor types, a high number ...Genome Medicine 2019 11:42Radiation therapy and anti-tumor immunity: exposing immunogenic mutations to the immune system
The expression of antigens that are recognized by self-reactive T cells is essential for immune-mediated tumor rejection by immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy. Growing evidence suggests that mutation-ass...Genome Medicine 2019 11:40Mechanisms of immune-related adverse events associated with immune checkpoint blockade: using germline genetics to develop a personalized approach
Personalized care of cancer patients undergoing treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors will require approaches that can predict their susceptibility to immune-related adverse events. Understanding the rol...Genome Medicine 2019 11:39Molecular and pharmacological modulators of the tumor immune contexture revealed by deconvolution of RNA-seq data
We introduce quanTIseq, a method to quantify the fractions of ten immune cell types from bulk RNA-sequencing data. quanTIseq was extensively validated in blood and tumor samples using simulated, flow cytometry...Genome Medicine 2019 11:34Discovery and characterization of actionable tumor antigens
The nature of the tumor antigens that are detectable by T cells remains unclear. In melanoma, T cells were shown to react against major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-associated peptides (MAPs) that are deri...Genome Medicine 2019 11:29Multi-omics discovery of exome-derived neoantigens in hepatocellular carcinoma
Although mutated HLA ligands are considered ideal cancer-specific immunotherapy targets, evidence for their presentation is lacking in hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs). Employing a unique multi-omics approach ...Genome Medicine 2019 11:28


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