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SUBMITTER: Li H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6761178 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Haoxin H Bullock Kevin K Gurjao Carino C Braun David D Shukla Sachet A SA Bossé Dominick D Lalani Aly-Khan A AA Gopal Shuba S Jin Chelsea C Horak Christine C Wind-Rotolo Megan M Signoretti Sabina S McDermott David F DF Freeman Gordon J GJ Van Allen Eliezer M EM Schreiber Stuart L SL Stephen Hodi F F Sellers William R WR Garraway Levi A LA Clish Clary B CB Choueiri Toni K TK Giannakis Marios M
Nature communications 20190925 1
Despite remarkable success of immune checkpoint inhibitors, the majority of cancer patients have yet to receive durable benefits. Here, in order to investigate the metabolic alterations in response to immune checkpoint blockade, we comprehensively profile serum metabolites in advanced melanoma and renal cell carcinoma patients treated with nivolumab, an antibody against programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1). We identify serum kynurenine/tryptophan ratio increases as an adaptive resistance mechan ...[more]