Targeting the gut microbiota for cancer therapy

MR Fernandes, P Aggarwal, RGF Costa… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Growing evidence suggests that the gut microbiota modulates the efficacy and toxicity of
cancer therapy, most notably immunotherapy and its immune-related adverse effects. The …

Intratumoral microbiota: roles in cancer initiation, development and therapeutic efficacy

L Yang, A Li, Y Wang, Y Zhang - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other eukaryotes, play critical roles in
human health. An altered microbiome can be associated with complex diseases …

A pan-cancer mycobiome analysis reveals fungal involvement in gastrointestinal and lung tumors

AB Dohlman, J Klug, M Mesko, IH Gao, SM Lipkin… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Fungal microorganisms (mycobiota) comprise a small but immunoreactive component of the
human microbiome, yet little is known about their role in human cancers. Pan-cancer …

KRASG12D inhibition reprograms the microenvironment of early and advanced pancreatic cancer to promote FAS-mediated killing by CD8+ T cells

KK Mahadevan, KM McAndrews, VS LeBleu, S Yang… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The KRAS G12D mutation is present in nearly half of pancreatic adenocarcinomas
(PDAC). We investigated the effects of inhibiting the KRAS G12D mutant protein with …

Epigenetic plasticity cooperates with cell-cell interactions to direct pancreatic tumorigenesis

C Burdziak, D Alonso-Curbelo, T Walle, J Reyes… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The response to tumor-initiating inflammatory and genetic insults can vary among
morphologically indistinguishable cells, suggesting as yet uncharacterized roles for …

The intratumor mycobiome promotes lung cancer progression via myeloid-derived suppressor cells

NN Liu, CX Yi, LQ Wei, JA Zhou, T Jiang, CC Hu… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Although polymorphic microbiomes have emerged as hallmarks of cancer, far less is known
about the role of the intratumor mycobiome as living microorganisms in cancer progression …

Role of the microbiota in response to and recovery from cancer therapy

SJ Blake, Y Wolf, B Boursi, DJ Lynn - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Our understanding of how the microbiota affects the balance between response to and
failure of cancer treatment by modulating the tumour microenvironment and systemic …

Multi-kingdom gut microbiota analyses define bacterial-fungal interplay and microbial markers of pan-cancer immunotherapy across cohorts

X Huang, M Hu, T Sun, J Li, Y Zhou, Y Yan, B Xuan… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023 - cell.com
The effect of gut bacteria on the response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has been
studied, but the relationship between fungi and ICI responses is not fully understood. Herein …

[HTML][HTML] The type 2 cytokine Fc–IL-4 revitalizes exhausted CD8+ T cells against cancer

B Feng, Z Bai, X Zhou, Y Zhao, YQ Xie, X Huang, Y Liu… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Current cancer immunotherapy predominately focuses on eliciting type 1 immune responses
fighting cancer; however, long-term complete remission remains uncommon,. A pivotal …

An IL-4 signalling axis in bone marrow drives pro-tumorigenic myelopoiesis

NM LaMarche, S Hegde, MD Park, BB Maier… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Myeloid cells are known to suppress antitumour immunity. However, the molecular drivers of
immunosuppressive myeloid cell states are not well defined. Here we used single-cell RNA …