Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Resistance to checkpoint blockade therapy through inactivation of antigen presentation

  • Moshe Sade-Feldman,
  • Yunxin J. Jiao,
  • Jonathan H. Chen,
  • Michael S. Rooney,
  • Michal Barzily-Rokni,
  • Jean-Pierre Eliane,
  • Stacey L. Bjorgaard,
  • Marc R. Hammond,
  • Hans Vitzthum,
  • Shauna M. Blackmon,
  • Dennie T. Frederick,
  • Mehlika Hazar-Rethinam,
  • Brandon A. Nadres,
  • Emily E. Van Seventer,
  • Sachet A. Shukla,
  • Keren Yizhak,
  • John P. Ray,
  • Daniel Rosebrock,
  • Dimitri Livitz,
  • Viktor Adalsteinsson,
  • Gad Getz,
  • Lyn M. Duncan,
  • Bo Li,
  • Ryan B. Corcoran,
  • Donald P. Lawrence,
  • Anat Stemmer-Rachamimov,
  • Genevieve M. Boland,
  • Dan A. Landau,
  • Keith T. Flaherty,
  • Ryan J. Sullivan,
  • Nir Hacohen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01062-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Resistance to immune-checkpoint blockade often occurs in treated patients. Here, the authors demonstrate that B2M loss is a mechanism of primary and acquired resistance to therapies targeting CTLA4 or PD-1 in melanoma patients.