Utilizing chemokines in cancer immunotherapy

F Märkl, D Huynh, S Endres, S Kobold - Trends in cancer, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint inhibition and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy have
demonstrated stunning clinical efficacy in many cancer types. However, most patients do not …

Homeostatic chemokine receptors and organ-specific metastasis

A Zlotnik, AM Burkhardt, B Homey - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2011 - nature.com
It has been 10 years since the role of a chemokine receptor, CXCR4, in breast cancer
metastasis was first documented. Since then, the field of chemokines and cancer has grown …

[HTML][HTML] Chemokines in tumor progression and metastasis

PJ Sarvaiya, D Guo, I Ulasov, P Gabikian, MS Lesniak - Oncotarget, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chemokines play a vital role in tumor progression and metastasis. Chemokines are involved
in the growth of many cancers including breast cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer …

The chemokine system and cancer

FR Balkwill - The Journal of pathology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Chemokines (chemo‐attractant cytokines) are a group of small proteins that act together with
their cell surface receptors, in development, normal physiology and immune responses, to …

[HTML][HTML] TGF-β upregulates miR-181a expression to promote breast cancer metastasis

MA Taylor, K Sossey-Alaoui… - The Journal of …, 2013 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Late-stage breast cancer metastasis is driven by dysregulated TGF-β signaling, but the
underlying molecular mechanisms have not been fully elucidated. We attempted to …

Mitochondria-targeted analogues of metformin exhibit enhanced antiproliferative and radiosensitizing effects in pancreatic cancer cells

G Cheng, J Zielonka, O Ouari, M Lopez, D McAllister… - Cancer research, 2016 - AACR
Metformin (Met) is an approved antidiabetic drug currently being explored for repurposing in
cancer treatment based on recent evidence of its apparent chemopreventive properties. Met …

Breast cancer methylomes establish an epigenomic foundation for metastasis

F Fang, S Turcan, A Rimner, A Kaufman… - Science translational …, 2011 - science.org
Cancer-specific alterations in DNA methylation are hallmarks of human malignancies;
however, the nature of the breast cancer epigenome and its effects on metastatic behavior …

Mitochondria-targeted drugs synergize with 2-deoxyglucose to trigger breast cancer cell death

G Cheng, J Zielonka, BP Dranka, D McAllister… - Cancer research, 2012 - AACR
Cancer cells are long known to exhibit increased aerobic glycolysis, but glycolytic inhibition
has not offered a viable chemotherapeutic strategy in part because of the systemic toxicity of …

Monomeric and dimeric CXCL12 inhibit metastasis through distinct CXCR4 interactions and signaling pathways

LJ Drury, JJ Ziarek, S Gravel… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Chemokines and chemokine receptors are extensively and broadly involved in cancer
metastasis. Previously, we demonstrated that epigenetic silencing of the chemokine …

Down-regulation of epithelial cadherin is required to initiate metastatic outgrowth of breast cancer

MK Wendt, MA Taylor, BJ Schiemann… - Molecular biology of …, 2011 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Reduced epithelial cadherin (E-cad) is a hallmark of invasive carcinomas that have acquired
epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) phenotypes. Here we show that down-regulated E …