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).

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Application of proteomics in the study of tumor metastasis.

  PMID 15862116 · PMC5172469 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell function is directly regulated through proteins, not genes or mRNA, so metastasis-related gene findings need protein-level validation via proteomics.

  young metastatic hepatocellular lines microarray 2de cdna

• Towards precise classification of cancers based on robust gene functional expression profiles.

  PMID 15774002 · PMC1274255 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Functional expression profiles (FEPs) achieve comparable or better classification performance than conventional gene expression profiles (GEPs) across four public microarray datasets

  nci60 lymphoma fep go-annotated cdna recursive hypergeometric

• Pathway signatures derived from on-treatment tumor specimens predict response to anti-PD1 blockade in metastatic melanoma.

  PMID 34654806 · PMC8519947 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Pathway-based signatures derived from on-treatment tumor specimens (PASS-ON) are highly predictive of response to anti-PD1 blockade in metastatic melanoma, achieving validation AUCs of 0.85–0.89.

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• A modular analysis framework for blood genomics studies: application to systemic lupus erythematosus.

  PMID 18631455 · PMC2727981 · Immunity · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Transcriptional modules constructed from coordinately expressed genes across 8 diseases form stable, biologically coherent functional units

  pbmc genes monocytes original microarray literature stimulation

• Genome-wide siRNA-based functional genomics of pigmentation identifies novel genes and pathways that impact melanogenesis in human cells.

  PMID 19057677 · PMC2585813 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Genome-wide siRNA screening identified 92 novel genes that support melanin production in human melanocytes with a low false discovery rate.

  mnt-1 melanocyte melanocytes genome-wide secondary quantitative

• A comprehensive catalogue of somatic mutations from a human cancer genome.

  PMID 20016485 · PMC3145108 · Nature · 2010 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Whole-genome sequencing of COLO-829 melanoma cells and matched COLO-829BL normal cells produced the first comprehensive catalogue of somatic mutations from an individual cancer genome

  colo-829 additional whole-genome conventional pcr

• 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

• 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

• scATD: a high-throughput and interpretable framework for single-cell cancer drug resistance prediction and biomarker identification.

  PMID 40501071 · PMC12159290 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scATD enables high-throughput single-cell drug sensitivity prediction for new patients without model parameter retraining via bidirectional Bi-AdaIN style transfer

  panglaodb cancer geo gse137829 single-cell bulk

• 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

• Enhancer Reprogramming Confers Dependence on Glycolysis and IGF Signaling in KMT2D Mutant Melanoma.

  PMID 33086062 · PMC7649750 · Cell reports · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KMT2D is a potent tumor suppressor in melanoma

  hmel-brafv600e tyr-creert2 tma kmt2d pooled xenograft genetically

• 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

• TFAP2 paralogs facilitate chromatin access for MITF at pigmentation and cell proliferation genes.

  PMID 35580127 · PMC9159589 · PLoS genetics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pigmentation genes are only expressed in mitfa-expressing zebrafish melanocyte-lineage cells that also express tfap2 paralogs

  gfp+ sk-mel-28 tfap2a single-cell crispr atac-seq

• Wx: a neural network-based feature selection algorithm for transcriptomic data.

  PMID 31324856 · PMC6642261 · Scientific reports · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Wx algorithm ranks genes by a discriminative index (DI) score representing classification power for distinguishing given groups, enabling intuitive selection of optimal biomarker genes.

  tcga melanoma lung head bulk single-cell rna-seq

• A 14-bp motif in the KIT active promoter region is critical for melanin accumulation in yaks, mice, and humans.

  PMID 40629379 · PMC12239316 · BMC biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A 14-bp deletion in the KIT gene promoter region is associated with the all-white phenotype in yaks, identified via GWAS

  domestic re-sampled hek293t yak whole-genome pcr dual-luciferase