Cancer epigenetics, tumor immunity, and immunotherapy

J Cao, Q Yan - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
Epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation, histone post-translational
modifications, and chromatin structure regulation, are critical for the interactions between …

Targeting the epigenetic regulation of antitumour immunity

SJ Hogg, PA Beavis, MA Dawson… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Dysregulation of the epigenome drives aberrant transcriptional programmes that promote
cancer onset and progression. Although defective gene regulation often affects oncogenic …

Molecular pathways: at the crossroads of cancer epigenetics and immunotherapy

M Maio, A Covre, E Fratta, AM Di Giacomo… - Clinical Cancer …, 2015 - AACR
Epigenetic regulation allows heritably modulating gene expression profiles without
modifying the primary sequence of gDNA. Under physiologic conditions, epigenetic patterns …

Epigenetic regulation in the tumor microenvironment: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets

J Yang, J Xu, W Wang, B Zhang, X Yu… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Over decades, researchers have focused on the epigenetic control of DNA-templated
processes. Histone modification, DNA methylation, chromatin remodeling, RNA modification …

Augmenting antitumor immune responses with epigenetic modifying agents

E Héninger, TEG Krueger, JM Lang - Frontiers in immunology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Epigenetic silencing of immune-related genes is a striking feature of the cancer genome that
occurs in the process of tumorigenesis. This phenomena impacts antigen processing and …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetics and immunotherapy: the current state of play

J Dunn, S Rao - Molecular immunology, 2017 - Elsevier
Cancer cells employ a number of mechanisms to escape immunosurveillance and facilitate
tumour progression. The recent explosion of interest in immunotherapy, especially immune …

Epigenetic modulation of antitumor immunity for improved cancer immunotherapy

E Dai, Z Zhu, S Wahed, Z Qu, WJ Storkus, ZS Guo - Molecular cancer, 2021 - Springer
Epigenetic mechanisms play vital roles not only in cancer initiation and progression, but also
in the activation, differentiation and effector function (s) of immune cells. In this review, we …

The cancer epigenome: exploiting its vulnerabilities for immunotherapy

HL Yau, I Ettayebi, DD De Carvalho - Trends in cell biology, 2019 - cell.com
During cancer initiation and progression, the somatic epigenome is broadly reprogrammed.
This reprogramming can be a consequence of several processes, including altered …

Role of epigenetic regulation in plasticity of tumor immune microenvironment

Y Yang, Y Wang - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The tumor immune microenvironment (TIME), an immunosuppressive niche, plays a pivotal
role in contributing to the development, progression, and immune escape of various types of …

Role of epigenetic modifications in inhibitory immune checkpoints in cancer development and progression

R Saleh, SM Toor, V Sasidharan Nair… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
A balance between co-inhibitory and co-stimulatory signals in the tumor microenvironment
(TME) is critical to suppress tumor development and progression, primarily via maintaining …