Targeting the epigenetic regulation of antitumour immunity

SJ Hogg, PA Beavis, MA Dawson… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Dysregulation of the epigenome drives aberrant transcriptional programmes that promote
cancer onset and progression. Although defective gene regulation often affects oncogenic …

Update on VEXAS and role of allogeneic bone marrow transplant: considerations on behalf of the Chronic Malignancies Working Party of the EBMT

C Gurnari, DP McLornan - Bone Marrow Transplantation, 2022 - nature.com
VEXAS (acronym for Vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, Autoinflammatory, Somatic) is a
fascinating new entity encompassing a variety of clinical manifestations, spanning from auto …

Demethylating therapy increases anti-CD123 CAR T cell cytotoxicity against acute myeloid leukemia

N El Khawanky, A Hughes, W Yu, R Myburgh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Successful treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)
T cells is hampered by toxicity on normal hematopoietic progenitor cells and low CAR T cell …

Tumor editing suppresses innate and adaptive antitumor immunity and is reversed by inhibiting DNA methylation

Y Zhang, P Naderi Yeganeh, H Zhang, SY Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer cells edit gene expression to evade immunosurveillance. However, genome-wide
studies of gene editing during early tumorigenesis are lacking. Here we used single-cell …

High-dose ascorbic acid synergizes with anti-PD1 in a lymphoma mouse model

RA Luchtel, T Bhagat, K Pradhan… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Major efforts are underway to identify agents that can potentiate effects of immune
checkpoint inhibition. Here, we show that ascorbic acid (AA) treatment caused genomewide …

[HTML][HTML] Maintenance therapy with decitabine after allogeneic stem cell transplantation for acute myelogenous leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome

I Pusic, J Choi, MA Fiala, F Gao, M Holt… - Biology of Blood and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Decitabine is a hypomethylating agent that irreversibly inhibits DNA methyltransferase I,
inducing leukemic differentiation and re-expression of epigenetically silenced putative tumor …

Targeting the epigenome to reinvigorate T cells for cancer immunotherapy

D Xiong, L Zhang, ZJ Sun - Military Medical Research, 2023 - Springer
Cancer immunotherapy using immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has revolutionized the
field of cancer treatment; however, ICI efficacy is constrained by progressive dysfunction of …

Combination strategies to optimize the efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy in haematological malignancies

X Xiao, Y Wang, Z Zou, Y Yang, X Wang, X Xin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has revolutionized the therapeutic
landscape of haematological malignancies. However, resistance and relapse remain …

Decitabine, a new star in epigenetic therapy: the clinical application and biological mechanism in solid tumors

J Nie, L Liu, X Li, W Han - Cancer letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Epigenetic alterations are strongly associated with cancer development and drug resistance.
The use of the DNA methylation inhibitor decitabine (Dacogen®) has been approved in the …

Acute myeloid leukaemia and the immune system: implications for immunotherapy

AJ Barrett - British Journal of Haematology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The recognition of the curative potential of the graft‐versus‐leukaemia effect for patients with
acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) undergoing stem cell transplantation, and the emergence of …