Escape from nonsense-mediated decay associates with anti-tumor immunogenicity

Escape from nonsense-mediated decay associates with anti-tumor immunogenicity

The transcripts generated by frameshifts and indels in cancer are frequently degraded by nonsense mediated decay. Here, the authors show that some of these transcripts can escape this degradation mechanism and their prevalence correlates with tumour response to immunotherapy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kevin Litchfield, James L. Reading, Emilia L. Lim, Hang Xu, Po Liu, Maise Al-Bakir, Yien Ning Sophia Wong, Andrew Rowan, Samuel A. Funt, Taha Merghoub, David Perkins, Martin Lauss, Inge Marie Svane, Göran Jönsson, Javier Herrero, James Larkin, Sergio A. Quezada, Matthew D. Hellmann, Samra Turajlic, Charles Swanton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17526-5

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17526-5

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