Autophagy promotes immune evasion of pancreatic cancer by degrading MHC-I

K Yamamoto, A Venida, J Yano, DE Biancur… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Immune evasion is a major obstacle for cancer treatment. Common mechanisms of evasion
include impaired antigen presentation caused by mutations or loss of heterozygosity of the …

Selective autophagy of MHC-I promotes immune evasion of pancreatic cancer

K Yamamoto, A Venida, RM Perera, AC Kimmelman - Autophagy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) is a key molecule in anti-tumor adaptive
immunity. MHC-I is essential for endogenous antigen presentation by cancer cells and …

p53 status determines the role of autophagy in pancreatic tumour development

MT Rosenfeldt, J O'Prey, JP Morton, C Nixon… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Macroautophagy (hereafter referred to as autophagy) is a process in which organelles
termed autophagosomes deliver cytoplasmic constituents to lysosomes for degradation …

Autophagy-dependent anticancer immune responses induced by chemotherapeutic agents in mice

M Michaud, I Martins, AQ Sukkurwala, S Adjemian… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Antineoplastic chemotherapies are particularly efficient when they elicit immunogenic cell
death, thus provoking an anticancer immune response. Here we demonstrate that …

Autophagy promotes growth of tumors with high mutational burden by inhibiting a T-cell immune response

L Poillet-Perez, DW Sharp, Y Yang, SV Laddha… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Macroautophagy (hereafter autophagy) degrades and recycles intracellular components to
sustain metabolism and survival during starvation. Host autophagy promotes tumor growth …

γδ T cells are effectors of immunotherapy in cancers with HLA class I defects

NL de Vries, J van de Haar, V Veninga, M Chalabi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
DNA mismatch repair-deficient (MMR-d) cancers present an abundance of neoantigens that
is thought to explain their exceptional responsiveness to immune checkpoint blockade …

Targeting T cell checkpoints 41BB and LAG3 and myeloid cell CXCR1/CXCR2 results in antitumor immunity and durable response in pancreatic cancer

P Gulhati, A Schalck, S Jiang, X Shang, CJ Wu, P Hou… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is considered non-immunogenic, with trials
showing its recalcitrance to PD1 and CTLA4 immune checkpoint therapies (ICTs). Here, we …

MHC-II neoantigens shape tumour immunity and response to immunotherapy

E Alspach, DM Lussier, AP Miceli, I Kizhvatov… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The ability of the immune system to eliminate and shape the immunogenicity of tumours
defines the process of cancer immunoediting. Immunotherapies such as those that target …

Targeting focal adhesion kinase renders pancreatic cancers responsive to checkpoint immunotherapy

H Jiang, S Hegde, BL Knolhoff, Y Zhu, JM Herndon… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Single-agent immunotherapy has achieved limited clinical benefit to date in patients with
pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). This may be a result of the presence of a …

Class IIa HDAC inhibition reduces breast tumours and metastases through anti-tumour macrophages

JL Guerriero, A Sotayo, HE Ponichtera, JA Castrillon… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Although the main focus of immuno-oncology has been manipulating the adaptive immune
system, harnessing both the innate and adaptive arms of the immune system might produce …