Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

J Zhang, D Huang, PE Saw, E Song - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved clinical benefit, but most
'immune-cold'solid tumors are not responsive. The diversity of immune evasion mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Turning cold tumors into hot tumors by improving T-cell infiltration

YT Liu, ZJ Sun - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Immunotherapy, represented by immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), has greatly improved
the clinical efficacy of malignant tumor therapy. ICI-mediated antitumor responses depend …

Immune phenotypic linkage between colorectal cancer and liver metastasis

Y Liu, Q Zhang, B Xing, N Luo, R Gao, K Yu, X Hu, Z Bu… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is connected to immunotherapy responses, but it
remains unclear how cancer cells and host tissues differentially influence the immune …

CXCR3 expression in regulatory T cells drives interactions with type I dendritic cells in tumors to restrict CD8+ T cell antitumor immunity

MAM Ayala, TF Campbell, C Zhang, N Dahan… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Infiltration of regulatory T (Treg) cells, an immunosuppressive population of CD4+ T cells,
into solid cancers represents a barrier to cancer immunotherapy. Chemokine receptors are …

CXCL9:SPP1 macrophage polarity identifies a network of cellular programs that control human cancers

R Bill, P Wirapati, M Messemaker, W Roh, B Zitti… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Tumor microenvironments (TMEs) influence cancer progression but are complex and often
differ between patients. Considering that microenvironment variations may reveal rules …

Multiplexed imaging mass cytometry of the chemokine milieus in melanoma characterizes features of the response to immunotherapy

T Hoch, D Schulz, N Eling, JM Gómez… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Intratumoral immune cells are crucial for tumor control and antitumor responses during
immunotherapy. Immune cell trafficking into tumors is mediated by binding of specific …

Tumor-associated macrophages expressing the transcription factor IRF8 promote T cell exhaustion in cancer

BG Nixon, F Kuo, LL Ji, M Liu, K Capistrano, M Do… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Tumors are populated by antigen-presenting cells (APCs) including macrophage subsets
with distinct origins and functions. Here, we examined how cancer impacts mononuclear …

Low-dose radiotherapy reverses tumor immune desertification and resistance to immunotherapy

FG Herrera, C Ronet, M Ochoa de Olza, D Barras… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Developing strategies to inflame tumors is critical for increasing response to immunotherapy.
Here, we report that low-dose radiotherapy (LDRT) of murine tumors promotes T-cell …

CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion in Cancer

JS Dolina, N Van Braeckel-Budimir… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A paradigm shift in the understanding of the exhausted CD8+ T cell (Tex) lineage is
underway. Originally thought to be a uniform population that progressively loses effector …

N6-methyladenosine-modified circIGF2BP3 inhibits CD8+ T-cell responses to facilitate tumor immune evasion by promoting the deubiquitination of PD-L1 in non …

Z Liu, T Wang, Y She, K Wu, S Gu, L Li, C Dong… - Molecular cancer, 2021 - Springer
Background An in-depth understanding of immune evasion mechanisms in tumors is crucial
to overcome resistance and enable innovative advances in immunotherapy. Circular RNAs …