Samuels Lab
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We aim to shed new light on the complex networks formed in #melanoma, and learn how we can utilize this information to treat melanoma patients @Weizmann Institute of Science
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Thrilled to share our latest work in Cancer Cell! 🚨 Led by Chen Weller, Osnat Bartok, with amazing collaborators Chris Mcginnis, Ansuman Satpathy, Andreas Schlosser, Eytan Ruppin & more, we reveal that impaired translation fidelity enhances anti-tumor immunity!🧵(1/7)
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Proud of @yardenasamuels.bsky.social for her fascinating plenary session at the @theaacr.bsky.social annual meeting in Chicago! A great thank you to the program committee chairs, Drs. Matthew Vander Heiden and Lillian Siu for this opportunity. @mvhlab.bsky.social @lilliansiu.bsky.social #AACR25
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Translation dysregulation may serve as a new source for identifying cancer-associated antigens, and may also help to predict responses to checkpoint blockade bit.ly/3E4OMY8 #CheckpointBlockade #CancerImmunotherapy @wellerchen.bsky.social @Samuels-lab.bsky.social  @yardenasamuels.bsky.social
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In a study published in @cp-cancercell.bsky.social researchers from our lab manipulated cancer cells into making themselves visible to the immune system, creating a new approach that gives hope to patients with previously untreatable disease>> bit.ly/cancer-expos...
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✨ We are thankful to the @CancerCell editorial team and the reviewers for their constructive comments, and I am grateful to have such a wonderful team. (7/7)
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🏥 Patient data completed the picture: Primary melanoma tumors with low TYW2 showed enhanced responses to ICB, even in patients with low TMB (@Tiangen). Translation fidelity defects may help predict immunotherapy responders, opening new paths for precision cancer treatment. (6/7)
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Together with Yaron Carmi, we identified FS peptides that triggered robust T cell responses. Moreover, these peptides elicited de novo T cell responses specifically in TYW2-KO tumor-bearing mice! (5/7)
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🐭 In mice, TYW2 loss increased tumor immunogenicity, specifically in immunocompetent mice. scRNA-seq revealed that TYW2-KO tumors were enriched for exhausted T cells. Indeed, TYW2-KO tumor-bearing mice were sensitive to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy. (4/7)
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Furthermore, in vitro T cell stimulation assays (@Johannaolweus & team) demonstrated that these aberrant peptides are potent immune triggers! Could translation errors fuel anti-tumor immunity? (3/7)
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🧬 Loss of TYW2, a tRNA modifier, disrupts translation fidelity—causing ribosomes to pause at Phe codons and increasing frameshift (FS) events. This generates out-of-frame peptides, which are presented by MHC class I molecules. (2/7)
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Thrilled to share our latest work in Cancer Cell! 🚨 Led by Chen Weller, Osnat Bartok, with amazing collaborators Chris Mcginnis, Ansuman Satpathy, Andreas Schlosser, Eytan Ruppin & more, we reveal that impaired translation fidelity enhances anti-tumor immunity!🧵(1/7)
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Proud of my PhD student Nofar Gumpert giving an excellent talk at the #MICC conference un Athens!!!
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All this is thanks to the hard work and wonderful collaboration with Sapir Cohen Shvefel, Joy Pai, the Sathpathy lab, the Ruppin lab, Mitch Levesque, @yardenasamuels.bsky.social
and colleagues.
#CancerResearch #Immunotherapy #ITH