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ArticleNature communications2020

Predicting clinical benefit of immunotherapy by antigenic or functional mutations affecting tumour immunogenicity.

Kwoneel Kim, Hong Sook Kim, Jeong Yeon Kim, Hyunchul Jung, Jong-Mu Sun, Jin Seok Ahn, Myung-Ju Ahn, Keunchil Park, Se-Hoon Lee, Jung Kyoon Choi

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In one paragraph

Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07686744 (A Phase I Clinical Trial of Personalized Neoantigen Peptide Vaccine in Combination With Pembrolizumab for the Safety and Efficacy in Patients With Advanced, Recurrent or Refractory Renal Cell Carcinoma), which is not on this map. Cited by 36 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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36citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07686744 phase1not yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

A Phase I Clinical Trial of Personalized Neoantigen Peptide Vaccine in Combination With Pembrolizumab for the Safety and Efficacy in Patients With Advanced, Recurrent or Refractory Renal Cell Carcinoma

TypeinterventionalSponsorJian LinRan2026 to 2029Enrolled8ConditionsRenal Cell Carcinoma, Advanced, Recurrent, RefractoryArmsPersonalized Neoantigen Polyepitope Peptide Vaccine
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kwoneel Kim *Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea.
Hong Sook Kim *Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, 06351, Republic of Korea.
Jeong Yeon KimDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.
Hyunchul JungDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0450-2190
Jong-Mu SunDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, 06351, Republic of Korea.
Jin Seok AhnDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, 06351, Republic of Korea.
Myung-Ju AhnDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, 06351, Republic of Korea.
Keunchil ParkDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, 06351, Republic of Korea.
Se-Hoon LeeDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, 06351, Republic of Korea. shlee119@skku.edu.
Jung Kyoon ChoiDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea. jungkyoon@kaist.ac.kr.
Samsung Medical Center · KRKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neoantigen burden is regarded as a fundamental determinant of response to immunotherapy. However, its predictive value remains in question because some tumours with high neoantigen load show resistance. Here, we investigate our patient cohort together with a public cohort by our algorithms for the modelling of peptide-MHC binding and inter-cohort genomic prediction of therapeutic resistance. We first attempt to predict MHC-binding peptides at high accuracy with convolutional neural networks. Our prediction outperforms previous methods in > 70% of test cases. We then develop a classifier that can predict resistance from functional mutations. The predictive genes are involved in immune response and EGFR signalling, whereas their mutation patterns reflect positive selection. When integrated with our neoantigen profiling, these anti-immunogenic mutations reveal higher predictive power than known resistance factors. Our results suggest that the clinical benefit of immunotherapy can be determined by neoantigens that induce immunity and functional mutations that facilitate immune evasion.

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AlgorithmsAntigens, NeoplasmCohort StudiesErbB ReceptorsGenome, HumanHistocompatibility Antigens Class IHumansImmune EvasionImmunotherapyMutationNeoplasmsNeural Networks, ComputerPeptide FragmentsProtein BindingAntigens, NeoplasmEGFR protein, humanErbB ReceptorsHistocompatibility Antigens Class IPeptide Fragments

Identifiers

PMID32075964
PMCPMC7031381
OpenAlexW3008002169

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