Immune checkpoint therapy—current perspectives and future directions

P Sharma, S Goswami, D Raychaudhuri, BA Siddiqui… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) has dramatically altered clinical outcomes for cancer
patients and conferred durable clinical benefits, including cure in a subset of patients …

Adaptive immune resistance at the tumour site: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

TK Kim, EN Vandsemb, RS Herbst… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Tumours employ various tactics to adapt and eventually resist immune attack. These
mechanisms are collectively called adaptive immune resistance (AIR). The first defined and …

Molecular correlates of clinical response and resistance to atezolizumab in combination with bevacizumab in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

AX Zhu, AR Abbas, MR de Galarreta, Y Guan, S Lu… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Atezolizumab (anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1)) and bevacizumab (anti-vascular
endothelial growth factor (VEGF)) combination therapy has become the new standard of …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary tryptophan metabolite released by intratumoral Lactobacillus reuteri facilitates immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment

MJ Bender, AC McPherson, CM Phelps, SP Pandey… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The use of probiotics by cancer patients is increasing, including among those undergoing
immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment. Here, we elucidate a critical microbial-host …

Targeting the gut and tumor microbiota in cancer

EM Park, M Chelvanambi, N Bhutiani, G Kroemer… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Microorganisms within the gut and other niches may contribute to carcinogenesis, as well as
shaping cancer immunosurveillance and response to immunotherapy. Our understanding of …

Resistance mechanisms to anti-PD cancer immunotherapy

MD Vesely, T Zhang, L Chen - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The transformative success of antibodies targeting the PD-1 (programmed death 1)/B7-H1
(B7 homolog 1) pathway (anti-PD therapy) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However …

The foundations of immune checkpoint blockade and the ipilimumab approval decennial

AJ Korman, SC Garrett-Thomson… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunity, and the potential for cancer immunotherapy, have been topics of scientific
discussion and experimentation for over a hundred years. Several successful cancer …

The primordial differentiation of tumor-specific memory CD8+ T cells as bona fide responders to PD-1/PD-L1 blockade in draining lymph nodes

Q Huang, X Wu, Z Wang, X Chen, L Wang, Y Lu… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary Blocking PD-1/PD-L1 signaling transforms cancer therapy and is assumed to
unleash exhausted tumor-reactive CD8+ T cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) …

Multimodal integration of radiology, pathology and genomics for prediction of response to PD-(L) 1 blockade in patients with non-small cell lung cancer

RS Vanguri, J Luo, AT Aukerman, JV Egger, CJ Fong… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapy is used to treat almost all patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer
(NSCLC); however, identifying robust predictive biomarkers remains challenging. Here we …

Temporal single-cell tracing reveals clonal revival and expansion of precursor exhausted T cells during anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer

B Liu, X Hu, K Feng, R Gao, Z Xue, S Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Anti-PD-1 treatment has shown unprecedented clinical success in the treatment of non-small-
cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood …