Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Machine learning-based identification of an immunotherapy-related signature to enhance outcomes and immunotherapy responses in melanoma.

  PMID 39355255 · PMC11442245 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  66 consensus immunotherapy prognostic genes (CITPGs) were identified from the intersection of WGCNA modules, immunotherapy responder-vs-non-responder DEGs, and tumor-vs-normal DEGs

  melanoma tcga-skcm prjeb23709 microarray wgcna differential consensus

• CDKN2A and CDK4 mutation analysis in Italian melanoma-prone families: functional characterization of a novel CDKN2A germ line mutation.

  PMID 11556834 · PMC2375081 · British journal of cancer · 2001 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Germ line CDKN2A mutations were found in 5 of 15 (33.3%) Italian melanoma-prone families, including one novel mutation (P48T) and three known pathogenic mutations (R24P, G101W, N71S)

  genomic radiolabelled tig-er u2os sscp protein-protein retroviral

• A common founder for the V126D CDKN2A mutation in seven North American melanoma-prone families.

  PMID 11506491 · PMC2364106 · British journal of cancer · 2001 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  All seven North American melanoma-prone families carrying V126D share a haplotype consistent with a single common founder/ancestor for the mutation

  melanoma-prone haplotype microsatellite maximum

• Differential Gene Expression and Methylation Analysis of Melanoma in TCGA Database to Further Study the Expression Pattern of KYNU in Melanoma.

  PMID 35893303 · PMC9329910 · Journal of personalized medicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KYNU expression is decreased in melanoma despite a high KYNU mutation rate in the TCGA database

  tcga-skcm melanoma keratinocytes differential copy methylation

• Deubiquitination enzyme USP35 negatively regulates MAVS signaling to inhibit anti-tumor immunity.

  PMID 40016186 · PMC11868397 · Cell death & disease · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  USP35 interacts with MAVS and removes its K63-linked polyubiquitin chains, inhibiting viral-induced MAVS-TBK1-IRF3 activation and downstream inflammatory gene expression

  tumor melanoma tcga-skcm hek293t bioinformatics geo kaplan-meier

• geneshot: gene-level metagenomics identifies genome islands associated with immunotherapy response.

  PMID 33952321 · PMC8097837 · Genome biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  geneshot is a gene-level metagenomic bioinformatics tool that clusters de novo assembled protein-coding genes into co-abundant gene groups (CAGs) to reduce dimensionality and generate testable hypotheses from WGS microbiome data

  stool deduplicated reference whole-genome taxonomic functional

• Somatic deletion of the NF1 gene in a neurofibromatosis type 1-associated malignant melanoma demonstrated by digital PCR.

  PMID 16961930 · PMC1570477 · Molecular cancer · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Somatic deletion of the maternal NF1 allele occurred in the melanoma of an NF1 patient, demonstrating biallelic NF1 inactivation.

  peripheral microdissected formalin-fixed microsatellite conventional digital

• Differential Infiltration of Key Immune T-Cell Populations Across Malignancies Varying by Immunogenic Potential and the Likelihood of Response to Immunotherapy.

  PMID 39682743 · PMC11640164 · Cells · 2024 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Immune-activation-related T-cell populations (APA, TRM, stem-like, early/late dysfunctional T-cells) are more heavily infiltrated in ICI-responsive malignancies (melanoma, bladder) than in poorly responsive ones (ovarian, pancreatic).

  melanoma bulk survival auroc

• Increased cyclin D1 expression can mediate BRAF inhibitor resistance in BRAF V600E-mutated melanomas.

  PMID 18790768 · PMC2651569 · Molecular cancer therapeutics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CDK4 mutations (K22Q, R24C, R24L) alone do not confer resistance to the BRAF inhibitor SB590885

  melanoma metastatic wm39 451lu mtt pcr array

• Improving melanoma classification by integrating genetic and morphologic features.

  PMID 18532874 · PMC2408611 · PLoS medicine · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  BRAF-mutant melanomas show distinct morphological features (upward migration and nesting of intraepidermal melanocytes, epidermal thickening, sharper lateral demarcation, larger/rounder/more pigmented tumor cells) compared to non-mutant melanomas

  archival same subset patients histopathological mutation quantitative

• Proteomic analysis of integrin-associated complexes identifies RCC2 as a dual regulator of Rac1 and Arf6.

  PMID 19738201 · PMC2857963 · Science signaling · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel ligand-affinity/cross-linking proteomic methodology enables isolation of labile integrin-associated signaling complexes

  α5+ computational k562 embryonic ligand tandem hierarchical

• Correlation between KIT expression and KIT mutation in melanoma: a study of 173 cases with emphasis on the acral-lentiginous/mucosal type.

  PMID 19718013 · PMC4120323 · Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2009 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Immunohistochemical KIT expression is significantly associated with KIT mutation status in acral lentiginous/mucosal melanoma

  melanoma immunohistochemistry pcr

• Analysis of Tumor-Infiltrating T-Cell Transcriptomes Reveal a Unique Genetic Signature across Different Types of Cancer.

  PMID 36232369 · PMC9569723 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Common genes shared across five cancer types differ from those found in nonmalignant tissue-resident T-cells for each subset (CD4-T, CD8-T, Treg)

  breast lung colorectal melanoma single-cell gene reactome

• Differentiation status determines the effects of IFNγ on the expression of PD-L1 and immunomodulatory genes in melanoma.

  PMID 39736644 · PMC11687009 · Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2024 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Dedifferentiation via MITF knockdown renders 624Mel melanoma cells hypersensitive to IFNγ, causing non-additive (synergistic) upregulation of IFNγ-induced immunoregulatory genes.

  624mel yumm1.7 wild-type qpcr bulk luminex

• PD-1 and TIGIT coexpression identifies a circulating CD8 T cell subset predictive of response to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33188038 · PMC7668369 · Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2020 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  The frequency of circulating PD-1+TIGIT+ (DPOS) CD8+ T cells after 1 month of anti-PD-1 therapy is associated with clinical response and overall survival across three independent cohorts.

  pbmcs sorted skin multiparameter targeted tcr

• B-RAF and N-RAS mutations are preserved during short time in vitro propagation and differentially impact prognosis.

  PMID 17311103 · PMC1794595 · PloS one · 2007 · 5 claims · 4 setups

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  B-RAF and N-RAS mutation status is well preserved (strongly concordant) between tumor tissue biopsies and corresponding short-term in vitro propagated cell lines.

  tumor biopsy-derived metastatic pcr direct survival

• Oncogenic mutations in GNAQ occur early in uveal melanoma.

  PMID 18719078 · PMC2634606 · Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Activating GNAQ mutations at codon 209 occur in 33/67 (49%) of primary uveal melanomas, making it the most common known oncogenic mutation in UM

  uveal peripheral normal well-characterized pcr sequencing array-based

• Circulating mucosal-associated invariant T cells identify patients responding to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33723257 · PMC7961017 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are more abundant in the circulation of metastatic melanoma patients who respond to anti-PD-1 therapy than in non-responders, before and during therapy.

  peripheral cd3+cd8+ pbmc-derived pbmc high-dimensional single-cell flow

• Frequent somatic mutations of GNAQ in uveal melanoma and blue naevi.

  PMID 19078957 · PMC2696133 · Nature · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GNAQ is frequently somatically mutated in blue nevi (83%) and uveal melanoma (46%)

  archival nevus htert melan-a sanger pna-clamp soft

• Detection of BRAF mutations in the tumour and serum of patients enrolled in the AZD6244 (ARRY-142886) advanced melanoma phase II study.

  PMID 19861964 · PMC2778539 · British journal of cancer · 2009 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  BRAF mutations can be detected in serum cfDNA of advanced melanoma patients using an ARMS allele-specific PCR assay

  serum-derived tumour serum ht29 arms sanger topo