Signaling pathways and targeted therapies in lung squamous cell carcinoma: mechanisms and clinical trials

Z Niu, R Jin, Y Zhang, H Li - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death across the world. Unlike lung
adenocarcinoma, patients with lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) have not benefitted …

CDK4/6 inhibition triggers anti-tumour immunity

S Goel, MJ DeCristo, AC Watt, H BrinJones, J Sceneay… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinases 4 and 6 (CDK4/6) are fundamental drivers of the cell
cycle and are required for the initiation and progression of various malignancies …

DNA methylation loss promotes immune evasion of tumours with high mutation and copy number load

H Jung, HS Kim, JY Kim, JM Sun, JS Ahn… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Mitotic cell division increases tumour mutation burden and copy number load, predictive
markers of the clinical benefit of immunotherapy. Cell division correlates also with genomic …

EZH2 inhibition activates a dsRNA–STING–interferon stress axis that potentiates response to PD-1 checkpoint blockade in prostate cancer

KL Morel, AV Sheahan, DL Burkhart, SC Baca… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Prostate cancers are considered to be immunologically 'cold'tumors given the very few
patients who respond to checkpoint inhibitor (CPI) therapy. Recently, enrichment of …

Epigenetic therapy induces transcription of inverted SINEs and ADAR1 dependency

P Mehdipour, SA Marhon, I Ettayebi, A Chakravarthy… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer therapies that target epigenetic repressors can mediate their effects by activating
retroelements within the human genome. Retroelement transcripts can form double …

The emerging role of epigenetic therapeutics in immuno-oncology

MJ Topper, M Vaz, KA Marrone, JR Brahmer… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The past decade has seen the emergence of immunotherapy as a prime approach to cancer
treatment, revolutionizing the management of many types of cancer. Despite the promise of …

Epigenetic therapy in immune-oncology

PA Jones, H Ohtani, A Chakravarthy… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
DNA methylation inhibitors have become the mainstay for treatment of certain
haematological malignancies. In addition to their abilities to reactivate genes, including …

Breast cancer immunotherapy: facts and hopes

LA Emens - Clinical cancer research, 2018 - AACR
Immunotherapy is revolutionizing the management of multiple solid tumors, and early data
have revealed the clinical activity of programmed cell death-1/programmed death ligand-1 …

Activation of human endogenous retroviruses and its physiological consequences

N Dopkins, DF Nixon - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are abundant sequences that persist within the
human genome as remnants of ancient retroviral infections. These sequences became fixed …

LSD1 ablation stimulates anti-tumor immunity and enables checkpoint blockade

W Sheng, MW LaFleur, TH Nguyen, S Chen… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Chromatin regulators play a broad role in regulating gene expression and, when gone awry,
can lead to cancer. Here, we demonstrate that ablation of the histone demethylase LSD1 in …