Oncolytic virotherapy: basic principles, recent advances and future directions

D Lin, Y Shen, T Liang - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) have attracted growing awareness in the twenty-first century, as they
are generally considered to have direct oncolysis and cancer immune effects. With the …

Optimizing oncolytic virotherapy in cancer treatment

K Harrington, DJ Freeman, B Kelly, J Harper… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
In the wake of the success of modern immunotherapy, oncolytic viruses (OVs) are currently
seen as a potential therapeutic option for patients with cancer who do not respond or fail to …

Improving cancer immunotherapy by rationally combining oncolytic virus with modulators targeting key signaling pathways

Z Zhu, AJR McGray, W Jiang, B Lu, P Kalinski, ZS Guo - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) represent a new class of multi-modal immunotherapies for cancer,
with OV-elicited antitumor immunity being key to their overall therapeutic efficacy. Currently …

Oncolytic viruses: a new class of immunotherapy drugs

HL Kaufman, FJ Kohlhapp, A Zloza - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
Oncolytic viruses represent a new class of therapeutic agents that promote anti-tumour
responses through a dual mechanism of action that is dependent on selective tumour cell …

Oncolytic viruses and the immune system: the dynamic duo

AL De Matos, LS Franco, G McFadden - Molecular Therapy-Methods & …, 2020 - cell.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) constitute a new and promising immunotherapeutic approach
toward cancer treatment. This therapy takes advantage of the natural propensity of most …

PKR: a kinase to remember

S Gal-Ben-Ari, I Barrera, M Ehrlich… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Aging is a major risk factor for many diseases including metabolic syndrome, cancer,
inflammation, and neurodegeneration. Identifying mechanistic common denominators …

Advances in immunotherapy for glioblastoma multiforme

AB Mahmoud, R Ajina, S Aref, M Darwish… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant brain tumor
of the central nervous system and has a very poor prognosis. The current standard of care …

The sweet spot: defining virus–sialic acid interactions

JE Stencel-Baerenwald, K Reiss, DM Reiter… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Viral infections are initiated by attachment of the virus to host cell surface receptors,
including sialic acid-containing glycans. It is now possible to rapidly identify specific glycan …

Talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) and other oncolytic viruses for the treatment of melanoma

PK Bommareddy, A Patel, S Hossain… - American journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Many mammalian viruses have properties that can be commandeered for the treatment of
cancer. These characteristics include preferential infection and replication in tumor cells, the …

Molecular pathways: mechanism of action for talimogene laherparepvec, a new oncolytic virus immunotherapy

FJ Kohlhapp, HL Kaufman - Clinical Cancer Research, 2016 - AACR
Oncolytic viruses are native or engineered viruses that preferentially replicate in and lyse
cancer cells. Selective tumor cell replication is thought to depend on infection of neoplastic …