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 …

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 …

Leveraging epigenetics to enhance the efficacy of immunotherapy

JD Licht, RL Bennett - Clinical Epigenetics, 2021 - Springer
Background Epigenetic mechanisms regulate chromatin accessibility patterns that govern
interaction of transcription machinery with genes and their cis-regulatory elements …

Epigenetic strategies to boost cancer immunotherapies

MJ Barrero - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Recently, immunotherapeutic approaches have shown impressive responses in a subset of
cancer patients. However, the rate of success is low and a large percentage of treated …

Novel approaches to epigenetic therapies: from drug combinations to epigenetic editing

A Majchrzak-Celińska, A Warych, M Szoszkiewicz - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer development involves both genetic and epigenetic alterations. Aberrant epigenetic
modifications are reversible, allowing excellent opportunities for therapeutic intervention …

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 …

Epigenetic regulation of cancer immune cells

DMA Patino, V Radhakrishnan, KN Suvilesh… - Seminars in Cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
The epigenetic regulation of immune response involves reversible and heritable changes
that do not alter the DNA sequence. Though there have been extensive studies …

[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 …