<i>CDK12</i> Deficiency and the Immune Microenvironment in Prostate Cancer.

Lotan, Tamara L; Antonarakis, Emmanuel S · Clin Cancer Res · 2021

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

CDK12 inactivation in prostate cancer is associated with tandem genomic duplications that may generate fusion-associated neoantigens and elicit immune responses amenable to checkpoint blockade. In the first study to comprehensively characterize the T-cell immune microenvironment of CDK12-deficient prostate cancers, subsets of immunosuppressive CD4<sup>+</sup>FOXP3<sup>-</sup> T cells were increased compared with CDK12-proficient controls.<i>See related article by Rescigno et al., p. 566</i>.

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