The molecular mechanisms and therapeutic strategies of EMT in tumor progression and metastasis

Y Huang, W Hong, X Wei - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2022 - Springer
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an essential process in normal embryonic
development and tissue regeneration. However, aberrant reactivation of EMT is associated …

Tumor immune microenvironment during epithelial–mesenchymal transition

M Taki, K Abiko, M Ukita, R Murakami, K Yamanoi… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been shown to play a critical role in tumor
development from initiation to metastasis. EMT could be regarded as a continuum, with …

Intratumoral copper modulates PD-L1 expression and influences tumor immune evasion

F Voli, E Valli, L Lerra, K Kimpton, F Saletta, FM Giorgi… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
Therapeutic checkpoint antibodies blocking programmed death receptor 1/programmed
death ligand 1 (PD-L1) signaling have radically improved clinical outcomes in cancer …

Non-redundant functions of EMT transcription factors

MP Stemmler, RL Eccles, S Brabletz, T Brabletz - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a crucial embryonic programme that is executed
by various EMT transcription factors (EMT-TFs) and is aberrantly activated in cancer and …

Emerging role of tumor cell plasticity in modifying therapeutic response

S Qin, J Jiang, Y Lu, EC Nice, C Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Resistance to cancer therapy is a major barrier to cancer management. Conventional views
have proposed that acquisition of resistance may result from genetic mutations. However …

Enhanced preclinical antitumor activity of M7824, a bifunctional fusion protein simultaneously targeting PD-L1 and TGF-β

Y Lan, D Zhang, C Xu, KW Hance, B Marelli… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
Antibodies targeting immune checkpoints are emerging as potent and viable cancer
therapies, but not all patients respond to these as single agents. Concurrently targeting …

Communication between EMT and PD-L1 signaling: New insights into tumor immune evasion

Y Jiang, H Zhan - Cancer letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Immune checkpoint blockage has been considered a breakthrough in cancer treatment,
achieving encouraging anti-tumor effects in some advanced solid malignancies. However …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of PD-L1: a novel role of pro-survival signalling in cancer

J Chen, CC Jiang, L Jin, XD Zhang - Annals of oncology, 2016 - Elsevier
Evasion of immune system is a hallmark of cancer, which enables cancer cells to escape the
attack from immune cells. Cancer cells can express many immune inhibitory signalling …

Circulating and disseminated tumour cells—mechanisms of immune surveillance and escape

M Mohme, S Riethdorf, K Pantel - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2017 - nature.com
Metastatic spread of tumour cells is the main cause of cancer-related deaths. Understanding
the mechanisms of tumour-cell dissemination has, therefore, become an important focus for …

The extrinsic and intrinsic roles of PD-L1 and its receptor PD-1: implications for immunotherapy treatment

K Hudson, N Cross, N Jordan-Mahy… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is an immune checkpoint inhibitor that binds to its
receptor PD-1 expressed by T cells and other immune cells to regulate immune responses; …