The cGAS–STING pathway and cancer

N Samson, A Ablasser - Nature Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
The cyclic GMP–AMP synthase (cGAS)–stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway has
emerged as a critical innate immune pathway that, following engagement by DNA, promotes …

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 …

Roles of transposable elements in the regulation of mammalian transcription

R Fueyo, J Judd, C Feschotte, J Wysocka - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) comprise about half of the mammalian genome. TEs often
contain sequences capable of recruiting the host transcription machinery, which they use to …

Pan-cancer analysis identifies tumor-specific antigens derived from transposable elements

NM Shah, HJ Jang, Y Liang, JH Maeng, SC Tzeng… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Cryptic promoters within transposable elements (TEs) can be transcriptionally reactivated in
tumors to create new TE-chimeric transcripts, which can produce immunogenic antigens. We …

Evidence that direct inhibition of transcription factor binding is the prevailing mode of gene and repeat repression by DNA methylation

S Kaluscha, S Domcke, C Wirbelauer, MB Stadler… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cytosine methylation efficiently silences CpG-rich regulatory regions of genes and repeats
in mammalian genomes. To what extent this entails direct inhibition of transcription factor …

Antigen presentation in cancer: insights into tumour immunogenicity and immune evasion

S Jhunjhunwala, C Hammer, L Delamarre - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade, which blocks inhibitory signals of T cell activation, has shown
tremendous success in treating cancer, although success still remains limited to a fraction of …

Cancer immune evasion through loss of MHC class I antigen presentation

K Dhatchinamoorthy, JD Colbert, KL Rock - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Major histocompatibility class I (MHC I) molecules bind peptides derived from a cell's
expressed genes and then transport and display this antigenic information on the cell …

Cellular origins of dsRNA, their recognition and consequences

YG Chen, S Hur - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is associated with most viral infections—it either constitutes
the viral genome (in the case of dsRNA viruses) or is generated in host cells during viral …

The role of retrotransposable elements in ageing and age-associated diseases

V Gorbunova, A Seluanov, P Mita, W McKerrow… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The genomes of virtually all organisms contain repetitive sequences that are generated by
the activity of transposable elements (transposons). Transposons are mobile genetic …

KDM5B promotes immune evasion by recruiting SETDB1 to silence retroelements

SM Zhang, WL Cai, X Liu, D Thakral, J Luo, LH Chan… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Tumours use various strategies to evade immune surveillance,. Immunotherapies targeting
tumour immune evasion such as immune checkpoint blockade have shown considerable …