Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Metabolomic adaptations and correlates of survival to immune checkpoint blockade

  • Haoxin Li,
  • Kevin Bullock,
  • Carino Gurjao,
  • David Braun,
  • Sachet A. Shukla,
  • Dominick Bossé,
  • Aly-Khan A. Lalani,
  • Shuba Gopal,
  • Chelsea Jin,
  • Christine Horak,
  • Megan Wind-Rotolo,
  • Sabina Signoretti,
  • David F. McDermott,
  • Gordon J. Freeman,
  • Eliezer M. Van Allen,
  • Stuart L. Schreiber,
  • F. Stephen Hodi,
  • William R. Sellers,
  • Levi A. Garraway,
  • Clary B. Clish,
  • Toni K. Choueiri,
  • Marios Giannakis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12361-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Immune-checkpoint inhibition therapy has achieved success in a subset of patients. Here the authors profiled about 200 relevant metabolites in patient serum samples from three independent immunotherapy trials and found the serum kynurenine/tryptophan ratio increases to be associated with worse overall survival.