The tumour glyco-code as a novel immune checkpoint for immunotherapy

E RodrÍguez, STT Schetters, Y van Kooyk - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Tumour growth is accompanied by tumour evasion of the immune system, a process that is
facilitated by immune checkpoint molecules such as programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1) …

[HTML][HTML] Protein glycosylation and tumor microenvironment alterations driving cancer hallmarks

A Peixoto, M Relvas-Santos, R Azevedo… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Decades of research have disclosed a plethora of alterations in protein glycosylation that
decisively impact in all stages of disease and ultimately contribute to more aggressive cell …

Targeted glycan degradation potentiates the anticancer immune response in vivo

MA Gray, MA Stanczak, NR Mantuano, H Xiao… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Currently approved immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies targeting the PD-1 and CTLA-4
receptor pathways are powerful treatment options for certain cancers; however, most …

[HTML][HTML] Sialic acids in pancreatic cancer cells drive tumour-associated macrophage differentiation via the Siglec receptors Siglec-7 and Siglec-9

E Rodriguez, K Boelaars, K Brown… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in glycosylation during tumour progression are a key hallmark of cancer.
One of the glycan moieties generally overexpressed in cancer are sialic acids, which can …

Targeting the Siglec–sialic acid axis promotes antitumor immune responses in preclinical models of glioblastoma

P Schmassmann, J Roux, A Buck, N Tatari… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive form of primary brain tumor, for which effective
therapies are urgently needed. Cancer cells are capable of evading clearance by …

[HTML][HTML] Aberrant sialylation in cancer: therapeutic opportunities

J Munkley - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary All cells are covered in a thick layer of sugar molecules known as glycans.
Changes to this sugar coat are common in cancer, and in particular cancer cells often …

[HTML][HTML] Hallmarks of glycosylation in cancer

J Munkley, DJ Elliott - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aberrant glycosylation plays a fundamental role in key pathological steps of tumour
development and progression. Glycans have roles in cancer cell signalling, tumour cell …

[HTML][HTML] Altered cell adhesion and glycosylation promote cancer immune suppression and metastasis

H Läubli, L Borsig - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cell-cell interactions and cell adhesion are key mediators of cancer progression and
facilitate hallmarks of cancer including immune evasion and metastatic dissemination. Many …

[HTML][HTML] Self-associated molecular patterns mediate cancer immune evasion by engaging Siglecs on T cells

MA Stanczak, SS Siddiqui, MP Trefny… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Am Soc Clin Investig
First-generation immune checkpoint inhibitors, including anti–CTLA-4 and anti–programmed
death 1 (anti–PD-1) antibodies, have led to major clinical progress, yet resistance frequently …

Protein posttranslational modifications in health and diseases: Functions, regulatory mechanisms, and therapeutic implications

Q Zhong, X Xiao, Y Qiu, Z Xu, C Chen, B Chong… - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) refer to the breaking or generation of covalent
bonds on the backbones or amino acid side chains of proteins and expand the diversity of …