Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

J Zhang, D Huang, PE Saw, E Song - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved clinical benefit, but most
'immune-cold'solid tumors are not responsive. The diversity of immune evasion mechanisms …

Immunogenic cell stress and death

G Kroemer, C Galassi, L Zitvogel, L Galluzzi - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Dying mammalian cells emit numerous signals that interact with the host to dictate the
immunological correlates of cellular stress and death. In the absence of reactive antigenic …

Cell death, therapeutics, and the immune response in cancer

K Hänggi, B Ruffell - Trends in cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Induction of cell death is inexorably linked with cancer therapy, but this can also initiate
wound-healing processes that have been linked to cancer progression and therapeutic …

Mechanisms and models of kidney tubular necrosis and nephron loss

F Maremonti, C Meyer… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Understanding nephron loss is a primary strategy for preventing CKD progression. Death of
renal tubular cells may occur by apoptosis during developmental and regenerative …

Single cell sequencing reveals that CD39 inhibition mediates changes to the tumor microenvironment

L Liu, Y Hou, C Deng, Z Tao, Z Chen, J Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell sequencing technologies have noteworthily improved our understanding of the
genetic map and molecular characteristics of bladder cancer (BC). Here we identify CD39 as …

Vaccine adjuvants to engage the cross-presentation pathway

W Lee, M Suresh - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Adjuvants are indispensable components of vaccines for stimulating optimal immune
responses to non-replicating, inactivated and subunit antigens. Eliciting balanced humoral …

Cancer cell-intrinsic mechanisms driving acquired immune tolerance

E Ghorani, C Swanton, SA Quezada - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Immune evasion is a hallmark of cancer, enabling tumors to survive contact with the host
immune system and evade the cycle of immune recognition and destruction. Here, we …

Dendritic cells as orchestrators of anticancer immunity and immunotherapy

I Heras-Murillo, I Adán-Barrientos, M Galán… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Dendritic cells (DCs) are a heterogeneous group of antigen-presenting innate immune cells
that regulate adaptive immunity, including against cancer. Therefore, understanding the …

Perforin-2 is a pore-forming effector of endocytic escape in cross-presenting dendritic cells

P Rodríguez-Silvestre, M Laub, PA Krawczyk… - Science, 2023 - science.org
During initiation of antiviral and antitumor T cell–mediated immune responses, dendritic
cells (DCs) cross-present exogenous antigens on major histocompatibility complex (MHC) …

Targeting dendritic cells to advance cross-presentation and vaccination outcomes

C Macri, D Jenika, C Ouslinis, JD Mintern - Seminars in immunology, 2023 - Elsevier
Dendritic cells (DCs) are a complex network of specialised antigen-presenting cells that are
critical initiators of adaptive immunity. Targeting antigen directly to DCs in situ is a …