Chemical and biomolecular strategies for STING pathway activation in cancer immunotherapy

KM Garland, TL Sheehy, JT Wilson - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) cellular signaling pathway is a promising target
for cancer immunotherapy. Activation of the intracellular STING protein triggers the …

Intratumoural administration and tumour tissue targeting of cancer immunotherapies

I Melero, E Castanon, M Alvarez, S Champiat… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint inhibitors and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are
revolutionizing oncology and haematology practice. With these and other immunotherapies …

Cytokines in clinical cancer immunotherapy

P Berraondo, MF Sanmamed, MC Ochoa… - British journal of …, 2019 - nature.com
Cytokines are soluble proteins that mediate cell-to-cell communication. Based on the
discovery of the potent anti-tumour activities of several pro-inflammatory cytokines in animal …

Local delivery of mRNA-encoded cytokines promotes antitumor immunity and tumor eradication across multiple preclinical tumor models

C Hotz, TR Wagenaar, F Gieseke, DS Bangari… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Local immunotherapy ideally stimulates immune responses against tumors while avoiding
toxicities associated with systemic administration. Current strategies for tumor-targeted …

Interferons α and β in cancer: therapeutic opportunities from new insights

EC Borden - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Over the past decade, preclinical and clinical research have confirmed the essential role of
interferons for effective host immunological responses to malignant cells. Type I interferons …

STING pathway agonism as a cancer therapeutic

BA Flood, EF Higgs, S Li, JJ Luke… - Immunological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The fact that a subset of human cancers showed evidence for a spontaneous adaptive
immune response as reflected by the T cell‐inflamed tumor microenvironment phenotype …

Type I interferons in anticancer immunity

L Zitvogel, L Galluzzi, O Kepp, MJ Smyth… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Type I interferons (IFNs) are known for their key role in antiviral immune responses. In this
Review, we discuss accumulating evidence indicating that type I IFNs produced by …

Structural design of engineered costimulation determines tumor rejection kinetics and persistence of CAR T cells

Z Zhao, M Condomines, SJC van der Stegen, F Perna… - Cancer cell, 2015 - cell.com
T cell engineering is a powerful means to rapidly generate anti-tumor T cells. The
costimulatory properties of second-generation chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) determine …

[HTML][HTML] CAR T cell-based immunotherapy for the treatment of glioblastoma

L Maggs, G Cattaneo, AE Dal… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant primary brain
tumor in adults. Current treatment options typically consist of surgery followed by …

The next hurdle in cancer immunotherapy: overcoming the non–T-cell–inflamed tumor microenvironment

TF Gajewski - Seminars in oncology, 2015 - Elsevier
A growing body of evidence suggests that a major subset of patients with advanced solid
tumors shows evidence for a T-cell–inflamed tumor microenvironment. This phenotype has …