Inflammation: the incubator of the tumor microenvironment

D Denk, FR Greten - Trends in Cancer, 2022 - cell.com
An inflammatory microenvironment, either conferred by an underlying chronic overt or
smoldering inflammatory condition constitutes a prerequisite and fuel to essentially all …

Metabolism and colorectal cancer

JC Sedlak, ÖH Yilmaz, J Roper - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Reprogrammed metabolism is a hallmark of colorectal cancer (CRC). CRC cells are geared
toward rapid proliferation, requiring nutrients and the removal of cellular waste in nutrient …

Dietary regulation in health and disease

Q Wu, ZJ Gao, X Yu, P Wang - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
Nutriments have been deemed to impact all physiopathologic processes. Recent evidences
in molecular medicine and clinical trials have demonstrated that adequate nutrition …

Towards modulating the gut microbiota to enhance the efficacy of immune-checkpoint inhibitors

RC Simpson, ER Shanahan, RA Scolyer… - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2023 - nature.com
The gut microbiota modulates immune processes both locally and systemically. This
includes whether and how the immune system reacts to emerging tumours, whether …

Glycosphingolipid synthesis mediates immune evasion in KRAS-driven cancer

M Soula, G Unlu, R Welch, A Chudnovskiy, B Uygur… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer cells frequently alter their lipids to grow and adapt to their environment,–. Despite
the critical functions of lipid metabolism in membrane physiology, signalling and energy …

Role of the gut microbiota and its metabolites in tumorigenesis or development of colorectal cancer

R Qu, Y Zhang, Y Ma, X Zhou, L Sun, C Jiang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most common cancer of the digestive system with high
mortality and morbidity rates. Gut microbiota is found in the intestines, especially the …

Optimizing immunotherapy for colorectal cancer

K Ganesh - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2022 - nature.com
Important colorectal cancer (CRC) studies in 2021, including a new standard of care for first-
line treatment of MSI-H–dMMR metastatic CRC, single-cell and spatial analysis of primary …

SOX17 enables immune evasion of early colorectal adenomas and cancers

N Goto, PMK Westcott, S Goto, S Imada, MS Taylor… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
A hallmark of cancer is the avoidance of immune destruction. This process has been
primarily investigated in locally advanced or metastatic cancer,–; however, much less is …

Segmented filamentous bacteria–induced epithelial MHCII regulates cognate CD4+ IELs and epithelial turnover

T Brabec, M Schwarzer, K Kováčová… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
Intestinal epithelial cells have the capacity to upregulate MHCII molecules in response to
certain epithelial-adhesive microbes, such as segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB) …

Metabolic determinants of tumour initiation

JS Brunner, LWS Finley - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2023 - nature.com
Tumours exhibit notable metabolic alterations compared with their corresponding normal
tissue counterparts. These metabolic alterations can support anabolic growth, enable …