for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation
SUMMARY
Cancer kills millions of people every year and is one of humanity’s greatest health challenges. By stimulating the inherent ability of our immune system to attack tumor cells this year’s Nobel Laureates have established an entirely new principle for cancer therapy.
James P. Allison studied a known protein that functions as a brake on the immune system. He realized the potential of releasing the brake and thereby unleashing our immune cells to attack tumors. He then developed this concept into a brand new approach for treating patients.
In parallel, Tasuku Honjo discovered a protein on immune cells and, after careful exploration of its function, eventually revealed that it also operates as a brake, but with a different mechanism of action. Therapies based on his discovery proved to be strikingly effective in the fight against cancer.
Allison and Honjo showed how different strategies for inhibiting the brakes on the immune system can be used in the treatment of cancer. The seminal discoveries by the two Laureates constitute a landmark in our fight against cancer. 0008マンセー生物学垢版2018/10/01(月) 20:16:58.87ID:6H+jkviO Key publications
Ishida, Y., Agata, Y., Shibahara, K., & Honjo, T. (1992). Induced expression of PD-1, a novel member of the immunoglobulin gene superfamily, upon programmed cell death. EMBO J., 11(11), 3887–3895.
Leach, D. R., Krummel, M. F., & Allison, J. P. (1996). Enhancement of antitumor immunity by CTLA-4 blockade. Science, 271(5256), 1734–1736.
Kwon, E. D., Hurwitz, A. A., Foster, B. A., Madias, C., Feldhaus, A. L., Greenberg, N. M., Burg, M.B. & Allison, J.P. (1997). Manipulation of T cell costimulatory and inhibitory signals for immunotherapy of prostate cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 94(15), 8099–8103.
Nishimura, H., Nose, M., Hiai, H., Minato, N., & Honjo, T. (1999). Development of Lupus-like Autoimmune Diseases by Disruption of the PD-1 gene encoding an ITIM motif-carrying immunoreceptor. Immunity, 11, 141–151.
Freeman, G.J., Long, A.J., Iwai, Y., Bourque, K., Chernova, T., Nishimura, H., Fitz, L.J., Malenkovich, N., Okazaki, T., Byrne, M.C., Horton, H.F., Fouser, L., Carter, L., Ling, V., Bowman, M.R., Carreno, B.M., Collins, M., Wood, C.R. & Honjo, T. (2000). Engagement of the PD-1 immunoinhibitory receptor by a novel B7 family member leads to negative regulation of lymphocyte activation. J Exp Med, 192(7), 1027–1034. 0009マンセー生物学垢版2018/10/01(月) 20:20:30.82ID:6H+jkviO Hodi, F.S., Mihm, M.C., Soiffer, R.J., Haluska, F.G., Butler, M., Seiden, M.V., Davis, T., Henry-Spires, R., MacRae, S., Willman, A., Padera, R., Jaklitsch, M.T., Shankar, S., Chen, T.C., Korman, A., Allison, J.P. & Dranoff, G. (2003). Biologic activity of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 antibody blockade in previously vaccinated metastatic melanoma and ovarian carcinoma patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 100(8), 4712-4717.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Scienceshas decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
“for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”
with one half to
Arthur Ashkin
Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”
and the other half jointly to
Gérard Mourou École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
and
Donna Strickland University of Waterloo, Canada
“for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses” 0019マンセー生物学垢版2018/10/03(水) 15:12:41.58ID:mZtF9L7s Tools made of light
The inventions being honoured this year have revolutionised laser physics. Extremely small objects and incredibly rapid processes are now being seen in a new light. Advanced precision instruments are opening up unexplored areas of research and a multitude of industrial and medical applications.
Arthur Ashkin invented optical tweezers that grab particles, atoms, viruses and other living cells with their laser beam fingers. This new tool allowed Ashkin to realise an old dream of science fiction – using the radiation pressure of light to move physical objects. He succeeded in getting laser light to push small particles towards the centre of the beam and to hold them there. Optical tweezers had been invented.
A major breakthrough came in 1987, when Ashkin used the tweezers to capture living bacteria without harming them. He immediately began studying biological systems and optical tweezers are now widely used to investigate the machinery of life. 0020マンセー生物学垢版2018/10/03(水) 15:14:51.67ID:mZtF9L7s Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland paved the way towards the shortest and most intense laser pulses ever created by mankind. Their revolutionary article was published in 1985 and was the foundation of Strickland’s doctoral thesis.
Using an ingenious approach, they succeeded in creating ultrashort high-intensity laser pulses without destroying the amplifying material. First they stretched the laser pulses in time to reduce their peak power, then amplified them, and finally compressed them. If a pulse is compressed in time and becomes shorter, then more light is packed together in the same tiny space – the intensity of the pulse increases dramatically.
Strickland and Mourou’s newly invented technique, called chirped pulse amplification, CPA, soon became standard for subsequent high-intensity lasers. Its uses include the millions of corrective eye surgeries that are conducted every year using the sharpest of laser beams.
The innumerable areas of application have not yet been completely explored. However, even now these celebrated inventions allow us to rummage around in the microworld in the best spirit of Alfred Nobel – for the greatest benefit to humankind. 0021マンセー生物学垢版2018/10/03(水) 15:22:14.16ID:mZtF9L7s 賞金1/2, 1/4, 1/4で分配らしい 0022マンセー名無しさん垢版2018/10/03(水) 18:36:19.11ID:wHPoNniD 「いつか遺伝子をピンセットで手術するように云々」って文章に感動したのが臨床から研究に転換したって記事が新聞に載ってたけど 発達障害で苦しむねらー諸君の心にも響きそうやね いやむしろそれくらい当然だろう早くしろと言い出すのか 何にしろ苦しむ奴が居なくなれば良いけどもそれも生物学と優生学の問題がまた出てくるんやろうね 0023マンセー名無しさん垢版2018/10/03(水) 18:46:27.00ID:mZtF9L7s>>22 発達障害は遺伝子によるものやないやろ エピジェネティクスなら関係あるかもしれんけど 先ずは致死性の遺伝子疾患の治療に使われるやろな 倫理的な問題は出てくるけど医学の原則から外れるものやないやろ 去勢のようなものやないんやから 遺伝子を変えてはならん決まりはあらへん 0024マンセー名無しさん垢版2018/10/03(水) 18:55:45.11ID:wHPoNniD そのタイプの関係の仕方ならあらゆる病気にも言えるんやない 自閉症なんかだと遺伝子のコピーミスが原因って聞いたけど