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ArticleOncoimmunology

Identification of immunotherapeutic targets by genomic profiling of rectal NET metastases.

Zeynep Koşaloğlu, Inka Zörnig, Niels Halama, Iris Kaiser, Ivo Buchhalter, Niels Grabe, Roland Eils, Matthias Schlesner, Andrea Califano, Dirk Jäger

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Article in Oncoimmunology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Zeynep KoşaloğluClinical Cooperation Unit "Applied Tumor Immunity", National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Inka ZörnigDepartment of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and University Hospital Heidelberg , Heidelberg, Germany.
Niels HalamaDepartment of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and University Hospital Heidelberg , Heidelberg, Germany.
Iris KaiserDepartment of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and University Hospital Heidelberg , Heidelberg, Germany.
Ivo BuchhalterDivision of Theoretical Bioinformatics (B080), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) , Heidelberg, Germany.
Niels GrabeDepartment of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and University Hospital Heidelberg , Heidelberg, Germany.
Roland EilsDivision of Theoretical Bioinformatics (B080), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; Department for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute for Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB) and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Matthias SchlesnerDivision of Theoretical Bioinformatics (B080), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) , Heidelberg, Germany.
Andrea CalifanoDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Systems Biology, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University , New York, NY, USA.
Dirk JägerClinical Cooperation Unit "Applied Tumor Immunity", National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Heidelberg University · DENational Center for Tumor Diseases · DEColumbia University · USGerman Cancer Research Center · DE

Funding

Predicting Cancer Cell Response to Endogenous and Exogenous Perturbations at the Single Cell LevelR35CA197745 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ANDREA CALIFANO · 2015 to 2026
$11.5M
Systematic pharmacological targeting of the core mechanisms responsible for maintaining cancer cell stateU54CA209997 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CALIFANO, ANDREA, HONIG, BARRY H · 2016 to 2021
$10.9M
NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197745NCI NIH HHS U54 CA209997
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) of the gastrointestinal tract are a rare and heterogeneous group of neoplasms with unique tumor biology and clinical management issues. While surgery is the only curative treatment option in patients with early stage NETs, the optimal management strategy for patients with advanced metastatic NETs is unknown. Based on the tremendous success of immunotherapeutic approaches, we sought to investigate such approaches in a case of metastatic rectal NET. Here, we apply an integrative approach using various computational and experimental methods to explore several aspects of the tumor-host immune interactions for immunotherapeutic options. Sequencing of six different liver metastases revealed a quite homogenous set of mutations, and further analysis of these mutations for immunogenicity revealed few neo-epitopes with pre-existing T cell reactivity, which can be used in therapeutic vaccines. Staining for immunomodulatory proteins and cytokine profiling showed that the immune setting is surprisingly different, when compared to liver metastases of colorectal cancer for instance. Taken together, our results highlight the broad range and complexity of tumor-host immune interaction and underline the value of an integrative approach.

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CytokinesIHCimmunotherapyneoantigensneo-epitopestumor immunologytumor microenvironmentvaccination

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PMID27999735
PMCPMC5139646
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