Therapeutic targeting of the hypoxic tumour microenvironment

DC Singleton, A Macann, WR Wilson - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Hypoxia is prevalent in human tumours and contributes to microenvironments that shape
cancer evolution and adversely affect therapeutic outcomes. Historically, two different …

Hypoxia-inducible factors: master regulators of hypoxic tumor immune escape

Q Wu, L You, E Nepovimova, Z Heger, W Wu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Hypoxia, a common feature of the tumor microenvironment in various types of cancers,
weakens cytotoxic T cell function and causes recruitment of regulatory T cells, thereby …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting metabolism to improve the tumor microenvironment for cancer immunotherapy

JE Bader, K Voss, JC Rathmell - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
The growing field of immune metabolism has revealed promising indications for metabolic
targets to modulate anti-cancer immunity. Combination therapies involving metabolic …

CC chemokines in a tumor: a review of pro-cancer and anti-cancer properties of receptors CCR5, CCR6, CCR7, CCR8, CCR9, and CCR10 ligands

J Korbecki, S Grochans, I Gutowska, K Barczak… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
CC chemokines (or β-chemokines) are 28 chemotactic cytokines with an N-terminal CC
domain that play an important role in immune system cells, such as CD4+ and CD8+ …

Modulating glycolysis to improve cancer therapy

C Chelakkot, VS Chelakkot, Y Shin, K Song - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cancer cells undergo metabolic reprogramming and switch to a 'glycolysis-
dominant'metabolic profile to promote their survival and meet their requirements for energy …

Methionine deficiency facilitates antitumour immunity by altering m6A methylation of immune checkpoint transcripts

T Li, YT Tan, YX Chen, XJ Zheng, W Wang, K Liao… - Gut, 2023 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Methionine metabolism is involved in a myriad of cellular functions, including
methylation reactions and redox maintenance. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether …

VISTA: a mediator of quiescence and a promising target in cancer immunotherapy

L Yuan, J Tatineni, KM Mahoney, GJ Freeman - Trends in immunology, 2021 - cell.com
V-domain Ig suppressor of T cell activation (VISTA) is a B7 family member that maintains T
cell and myeloid quiescence and is a promising target for combination cancer …

Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in tumors: from mechanisms to antigen specificity and microenvironmental regulation

Y Yang, C Li, T Liu, X Dai, AV Bazhin - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Among the various immunological and non-immunological tumor-promoting activities of
myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), their immunosuppressive capacity remains a …

Enhancing CAR-T cell efficacy in solid tumors by targeting the tumor microenvironment

G Liu, W Rui, X Zhao, X Lin - Cellular & Molecular Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has achieved successful outcomes against
hematological malignancies and provided a new impetus for treating solid tumors. However …

Alleviating hypoxia to improve cancer immunotherapy

P Fan, N Zhang, E Candi, M Agostini, M Piacentini… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor hypoxia resulting from abnormal and dysfunctional tumor vascular network poses a
substantial obstacle to immunotherapy. In fact, hypoxia creates an immunosuppressive …