2021
Diverse immune response of DNA damage repair-deficient tumors
Qing T, Jun T, Lindblad KE, Lujambio A, Marczyk M, Pusztai L, Huang KL. Diverse immune response of DNA damage repair-deficient tumors. Cell Reports Medicine 2021, 2: 100276. PMID: 34095878, PMCID: PMC8149377, DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2021.100276.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCancer typesDDR-deficient tumorsImmune checkpoint inhibitorsHigh neoantigen loadDifferent immune phenotypesDiverse immune responsesAdaptive immune markersRepair-deficient tumorsDDR deficiencyCheckpoint inhibitorsImmunotherapy outcomesDNA damage repair deficiencyImmune infiltratesImmune markersNeoantigen loadSurvival outcomesImmune phenotypeTumor neoantigensImmune responseAnimal modelsGenomic biomarkersGermline mutationsPathway mutationsTumorsRepair deficiency
2017
Immune gene signatures in triple-negative breast cancers characterized by varying levels of chromosomal instability.
Gyorffy B, Bottai G, Nagy A, Pusztai L, Santarpia L. Immune gene signatures in triple-negative breast cancers characterized by varying levels of chromosomal instability. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2017, 35: 1096-1096. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2017.35.15_suppl.1096.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTriple-negative breast cancerCytotoxic T cellsNatural killerDendritic cellsT cellsImmune infiltrationBreast cancerTNBC samplesB cellsImmune gene signaturesOverall good prognosisKaplan-Meier analysisMann-Whitney U testChromosomal instabilityWarrants further investigationImmune infiltratesBetter prognosisTNBC patientsTNBC tumorsImmune metagenesMS tumorsImmune responseBetter survivalImmune componentsTherapeutic strategies