CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

CRISPR-based technologies for the manipulation of eukaryotic genomes

AC Komor, AH Badran, DR Liu - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The CRISPR-Cas9 RNA-guided DNA endonuclease has contributed to an explosion of
advances in the life sciences that have grown from the ability to edit genomes within living …

Mismatch repair deficiency is not sufficient to elicit tumor immunogenicity

PMK Westcott, F Muyas, H Hauck, OC Smith… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
DNA mismatch repair deficiency (MMRd) is associated with a high tumor mutational burden
(TMB) and sensitivity to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy. Nevertheless, most …

Immunogenic chemotherapy enhances recruitment of CAR-T cells to lung tumors and improves antitumor efficacy when combined with checkpoint blockade

S Srivastava, SN Furlan, CA Jaeger-Ruckstuhl… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Adoptive therapy using chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells (CAR-T cells) is effective
in hematologic but not epithelial malignancies, which cause the greatest mortality. In breast …

[HTML][HTML] The CD155/TIGIT axis promotes and maintains immune evasion in neoantigen-expressing pancreatic cancer

WA Freed-Pastor, LJ Lambert, ZA Ely, NB Pattada… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The CD155/TIGIT axis can be co-opted during immune evasion in chronic viral infections
and cancer. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal malignancy, and immune …

Nrf2 activation promotes lung cancer metastasis by inhibiting the degradation of Bach1

L Lignitto, SE LeBoeuf, H Homer, S Jiang, M Askenazi… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Approximately 30% of human lung cancers acquire mutations in either Keap1 or Nfe2l2,
resulting in the stabilization of Nrf2, the Nfe2l2 gene product, which controls oxidative …

[HTML][HTML] BACH1 stabilization by antioxidants stimulates lung cancer metastasis

C Wiel, K Le Gal, MX Ibrahim, CA Jahangir, M Kashif… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
For tumors to progress efficiently, cancer cells must overcome barriers of oxidative stress.
Although dietary antioxidant supplementation or activation of endogenous antioxidants by …

Keap1 loss promotes Kras-driven lung cancer and results in dependence on glutaminolysis

R Romero, VI Sayin, SM Davidson, MR Bauer… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Treating KRAS-mutant lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) remains a major challenge in cancer
treatment given the difficulties associated with directly inhibiting the KRAS oncoprotein. One …

Low neoantigen expression and poor T-cell priming underlie early immune escape in colorectal cancer

PMK Westcott, NJ Sacks, JM Schenkel, ZA Ely, O Smith… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immune evasion is a hallmark of cancer and therapies that restore immune surveillance
have proven highly effective in cancers with high tumor mutation burden (TMB)(for example …

[HTML][HTML] Interferon-γ induces tumor resistance to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy by promoting YAP phase separation

M Yu, Z Peng, M Qin, Y Liu, J Wang, C Zhang, J Lin… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Interferon-γ (IFN-γ)-mediated adaptive resistance is one major barrier to improving
immunotherapy in solid tumors. However, the mechanisms are not completely understood …