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 …

Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

J Zhang, D Huang, PE Saw, E Song - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved clinical benefit, but most
'immune-cold'solid tumors are not responsive. The diversity of immune evasion mechanisms …

Matrix metalloproteinases: from molecular mechanisms to physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology

LGN de Almeida, H Thode, Y Eslambolchi… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - ASPET
The first matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) was discovered in 1962 from the tail of a tadpole by
its ability to degrade collagen. As their name suggests, matrix metalloproteinases are …

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 …

Tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer

TN Schumacher, DS Thommen - Science, 2022 - science.org
BACKGROUND Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) are organized aggregates of immune
cells that form postnatally in nonlymphoid tissues. TLSs are not found under physiological …

B cells and tertiary lymphoid structures as determinants of tumour immune contexture and clinical outcome

WH Fridman, M Meylan, F Petitprez, CM Sun… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
B cells are a major component of the tumour microenvironment, where they are
predominantly associated with tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS). In germinal centres within …

[HTML][HTML] A decade of checkpoint blockade immunotherapy in melanoma: understanding the molecular basis for immune sensitivity and resistance

AC Huang, R Zappasodi - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Ten years since the immune checkpoint inhibitor ipilimumab was approved for advanced
melanoma, it is time to reflect on the lessons learned regarding modulation of the immune …

[HTML][HTML] Tertiary lymphoid structures generate and propagate anti-tumor antibody-producing plasma cells in renal cell cancer

M Meylan, F Petitprez, E Becht, A Bougoüin, G Pupier… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
The presence of intratumoral tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) is associated with positive
clinical outcomes and responses to immunotherapy in cancer. Here, we used spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Hallmarks of response, resistance, and toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade

G Morad, BA Helmink, P Sharma, JA Wargo - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Unprecedented advances have been made in cancer treatment with the use of immune
checkpoint blockade (ICB). However, responses are limited to a subset of patients, and …

[HTML][HTML] Neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus nivolumab with or without ipilimumab in operable non-small cell lung cancer: the phase 2 platform NEOSTAR trial

T Cascone, CH Leung, A Weissferdt, A Pataer… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Neoadjuvant ipilimumab+ nivolumab (Ipi+ Nivo) and nivolumab+ chemotherapy
(Nivo+ CT) induce greater pathologic response rates than CT alone in patients with …