The advent of immune stimulating CAFs in cancer

M Tsoumakidou - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
The theory that cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are immunosuppressive cells has
prevailed throughout the past decade. However, recent high-throughput, high-resolution …

Exosomal cargos-mediated metabolic reprogramming in tumor microenvironment

S Tan, Y Yang, W Yang, Y Han, L Huang… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Springer
Metabolic reprogramming is one of the hallmarks of cancer. As nutrients are scarce in the
tumor microenvironment (TME), tumor cells adopt multiple metabolic adaptations to meet …

T-cell dysfunction in the glioblastoma microenvironment is mediated by myeloid cells releasing interleukin-10

VM Ravi, N Neidert, P Will, K Joseph, JP Maier… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite recent advances in cancer immunotherapy, certain tumor types, such as
Glioblastomas, are highly resistant due to their tumor microenvironment disabling the anti …

BLIMP1 and NR4A3 transcription factors reciprocally regulate antitumor CAR T cell stemness and exhaustion

IY Jung, V Narayan, S McDonald, AJ Rech… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have not induced meaningful clinical responses in
solid tumors. Loss of T cell stemness, poor expansion capacity, and exhaustion during …

[HTML][HTML] Lineage tracing reveals clonal progenitors and long-term persistence of tumor-specific T cells during immune checkpoint blockade

JA Pai, MD Hellmann, JL Sauter, M Mattar, H Rizvi… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Paired single-cell RNA and T cell receptor sequencing (scRNA/TCR-seq) has allowed for
enhanced resolution of clonal T cell dynamics in cancer. Here, we report a scRNA/TCR-seq …

Stepwise activities of mSWI/SNF family chromatin remodeling complexes direct T cell activation and exhaustion

E Battistello, KA Hixon, DE Comstock, CK Collings… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Highly coordinated changes in gene expression underlie T cell activation and exhaustion.
However, the mechanisms by which such programs are regulated and how these may be …

N-acetylneuraminic acid links immune exhaustion and accelerated memory deficit in diet-induced obese Alzheimer's disease mouse model

S Suzzi, T Croese, A Ravid, O Gold, AR Clark… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Systemic immunity supports lifelong brain function. Obesity posits a chronic burden on
systemic immunity. Independently, obesity was shown as a risk factor for Alzheimer's …

[HTML][HTML] CD4+ Cytotoxic T cells–phenotype, function and transcriptional networks controlling their differentiation pathways

T Preglej, W Ellmeier - Immunology Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
The two major subsets of peripheral T cells are classically divided into the CD4+ T helper
cells and the cytotoxic CD8+ T cell lineage. However, the appearance of some effector …

[HTML][HTML] The therapeutic potential of PD-1/PD-L1 pathway on immune-related diseases: based on the innate and adaptive immune components

P Zhang, Y Wang, Q Miao, Y Chen - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Currently, immunotherapy targeting programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) or programmed death
ligand 1 (PD-L1) has revolutionized the treatment strategy of human cancer patients …

Combining TIGIT blockade with MDSC inhibition hinders breast cancer bone metastasis by activating antitumor immunity

L Monteran, N Ershaid, Y Scharff, Y Zoabi… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Bone is the most common site of breast cancer metastasis. Bone metastasis is incurable and
is associated with severe morbidity. Utilizing an immunocompetent mouse model of …