KDM5B promotes immune evasion by recruiting SETDB1 to silence retroelements

SM Zhang, WL Cai, X Liu, D Thakral, J Luo, LH Chan… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Tumours use various strategies to evade immune surveillance,. Immunotherapies targeting
tumour immune evasion such as immune checkpoint blockade have shown considerable …

Epigenetic silencing of TH1-type chemokines shapes tumour immunity and immunotherapy

D Peng, I Kryczek, N Nagarsheth, L Zhao, S Wei… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Epigenetic silencing including histone modifications and DNA methylation is an important
tumorigenic mechanism. However, its role in cancer immunopathology and immunotherapy …

Myeloid-specific KDM6B inhibition sensitizes glioblastoma to PD1 blockade

S Goswami, D Raychaudhuri, P Singh, SM Natarajan… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) tumors are enriched in immune-suppressive myeloid cells and are
refractory to immune checkpoint therapy (ICT). Targeting epigenetic pathways to reprogram …

CMTM6 maintains the expression of PD-L1 and regulates anti-tumour immunity

ML Burr, CE Sparbier, YC Chan, JC Williamson… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Cancer cells exploit the expression of the programmed death-1 (PD-1) ligand 1 (PD-L1) to
subvert T-cell-mediated immunosurveillance,. The success of therapies that disrupt PD-L1 …

Epigenetic silencing by SETDB1 suppresses tumour intrinsic immunogenicity

GK Griffin, J Wu, A Iracheta-Vellve, JC Patti, J Hsu… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Epigenetic dysregulation is a defining feature of tumorigenesis that is implicated in immune
escape,. Here, to identify factors that modulate the immune sensitivity of cancer cells, we …

Enhancing KDM5A and TLR activity improves the response to immune checkpoint blockade

L Wang, Y Gao, G Zhang, D Li, Z Wang… - Science Translational …, 2020 - science.org
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies are now established as first-line treatments for
multiple cancers, but many patients do not derive long-term benefit from ICB. Here, we report …

[HTML][HTML] Marked global DNA hypomethylation is associated with constitutive PD-L1 expression in melanoma

A Chatterjee, EJ Rodger, A Ahn, PA Stockwell, M Parry… - Iscience, 2018 - cell.com
Constitutive expression of the immune checkpoint, PD-L1, inhibits anti-tumor immune
responses in cancer, although the factors involved in PD-L1 regulation are poorly …

[HTML][HTML] KDM5 histone demethylases repress immune response via suppression of STING

L Wu, J Cao, WL Cai, SM Lang, JR Horton… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS) stimulator of interferon genes (STING) senses
pathogen-derived or abnormal self-DNA in the cytosol and triggers an innate immune …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting KDM4A epigenetically activates tumor-cell-intrinsic immunity by inducing DNA replication stress

W Zhang, W Liu, L Jia, D Chen, I Chang, M Lake… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Developing strategies to activate tumor-cell-intrinsic immune response is critical for
improving tumor immunotherapy by exploiting tumor vulnerability. KDM4A, as a histone H3 …

MDM4 is a key therapeutic target in cutaneous melanoma

A Gembarska, F Luciani, C Fedele, EA Russell… - Nature medicine, 2012 - nature.com
The inactivation of the p53 tumor suppressor pathway, which often occurs through mutations
in TP53 (encoding tumor protein 53) is a common step in human cancer. However, in …