Intestinal microbiome analyses identify melanoma patients at risk for checkpoint-blockade-induced colitis

A subset of cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint blockade develops colitis. Here the authors show that lower abundance of Bacteroidetes and vitamin B biosynthetic modules in fecal samples of melanoma patients can predict their susceptibility to colitis following anti-CTLA-4 treatment.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Krista Dubin, Margaret K. Callahan, Boyu Ren, Raya Khanin, Agnes Viale, Lilan Ling, Daniel No, Asia Gobourne, Eric Littmann, Curtis Huttenhower, Eric G. Pamer, Jedd D. Wolchok
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10391