Targeting ROS in cancer: rationale and strategies

C Glorieux, S Liu, D Trachootham… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2024 - nature.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) in biological systems are transient but essential molecules
that are generated and eliminated by a complex set of delicately balanced molecular …

Ferroptosis in cancer and cancer immunotherapy

L Zhao, X Zhou, F Xie, L Zhang, H Yan… - Cancer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The hallmark of tumorigenesis is the successful circumvention of cell death regulation for
achieving unlimited replication and immortality. Ferroptosis is a newly identified type of cell …

Programmed death ligand 1 signals in cancer cells

AVR Kornepati, RK Vadlamudi, TJ Curiel - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
The paradigm of surface-expressed programmed death ligand 1 (PDL1) signalling to
immune cell programmed death 1 (PD1) to inhibit antitumour immunity has helped to …

The rediscovery of platinum-based cancer therapy

S Rottenberg, C Disler, P Perego - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Platinum (Pt) compounds entered the clinic as anticancer agents when cisplatin was
approved in 1978. More than 40 years later, even in the era of precision medicine and …

Metabolites and the tumour microenvironment: from cellular mechanisms to systemic metabolism

I Elia, MC Haigis - Nature metabolism, 2021 - nature.com
Metabolic transformation is a hallmark of cancer and a critical target for cancer therapy.
Cancer metabolism and behaviour are regulated by cell-intrinsic factors as well as …

Mitochondrial oxidative stress in the tumor microenvironment and cancer immunoescape: foe or friend?

CL Kuo, A Ponneri Babuharisankar, YC Lin… - Journal of biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
The major concept of" oxidative stress" is an excess elevated level of reactive oxygen
species (ROS) which are generated from vigorous metabolism and consumption of oxygen …

Cancer SLC43A2 alters T cell methionine metabolism and histone methylation

Y Bian, W Li, DM Kremer, P Sajjakulnukit, S Li… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abnormal epigenetic patterns correlate with effector T cell malfunction in tumours,,–, but the
cause of this link is unknown. Here we show that tumour cells disrupt methionine …

GOT1 inhibition promotes pancreatic cancer cell death by ferroptosis

DM Kremer, BS Nelson, L Lin, EL Yarosz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer metabolism is rewired to support cell survival in response to intrinsic and
environmental stressors. Identification of strategies to target these adaptions is an area of …

Radiotherapy and immunotherapy promote tumoral lipid oxidation and ferroptosis via synergistic repression of SLC7A11

X Lang, MD Green, W Wang, J Yu, JE Choi, L Jiang… - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
A challenge in oncology is to rationally and effectively integrate immunotherapy with
traditional modalities, including radiotherapy. Here, we demonstrate that radiotherapy …

CD8+ T cells regulate tumour ferroptosis during cancer immunotherapy

W Wang, M Green, JE Choi, M Gijón, PD Kennedy… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapy restores or enhances the effector function of CD8+ T cells in the
tumour microenvironment,. CD8+ T cells activated by cancer immunotherapy clear tumours …