Relating the gut metagenome and metatranscriptome to immunotherapy responses in melanoma patients.
Brandilyn A PetersMelissa WilsonUna MoranAnna PavlickAllison IzsakTodd WechterJeffrey S WeberIman OsmanJiyoung AhnPublished in: Genome medicine (2019)
This work adds to the growing evidence that gut microbiota are related to immunotherapy outcomes, and identifies, for the first time, transcriptionally expressed metagenomic pathways related to PFS. Further research is warranted on microbial therapeutic targets to improve immunotherapy outcomes.