Bacteria in cancer initiation, promotion and progression

G El Tekle, WS Garrett - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer cells originate from a series of acquired genetic mutations that can drive their
uncontrolled cell proliferation and immune evasion. Environmental factors, including the …

Gut microbiota influence immunotherapy responses: mechanisms and therapeutic strategies

Y Lu, X Yuan, M Wang, Z He, H Li, J Wang… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
The gut microbiota have long been recognized to play a key role in human health and
disease. Currently, several lines of evidence from preclinical to clinical research have …

Diet-driven microbial ecology underpins associations between cancer immunotherapy outcomes and the gut microbiome

RC Simpson, ER Shanahan, M Batten, ILM Reijers… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The gut microbiota shapes the response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in cancer,
however dietary and geographic influences have not been well-studied in prospective trials …

Metabolic barriers to cancer immunotherapy

K DePeaux, GM Delgoffe - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Several non-redundant features of the tumour microenvironment facilitate
immunosuppression and limit anticancer immune responses. These include physical …

Microenvironment-driven metabolic adaptations guiding CD8+ T cell anti-tumor immunity

J Park, PC Hsueh, Z Li, PC Ho - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
The metabolic stress occurring in the tumor microenvironment (TME) hampers T cell anti-
tumor immunity by disturbing T cell metabolic and epigenetic programs. Recent studies are …

Roseburia intestinalis: A Beneficial Gut Organism From the Discoveries in Genus and Species

K Nie, K Ma, W Luo, Z Shen, Z Yang, M Xiao… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Roseburia intestinalis is an anaerobic, Gram-positive, slightly curved rod-shaped flagellated
bacterium that produces butyrate in the colon. R. intestinalis has been shown to prevent …

Gut microbial metabolites as multi-kingdom intermediates

KA Krautkramer, J Fan, F Bäckhed - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The gut microbiota contributes to host physiology through the production of a myriad of
metabolites. These metabolites exert their effects within the host as signalling molecules and …

Gut microbial metabolites facilitate anticancer therapy efficacy by modulating cytotoxic CD8+ T cell immunity

Y He, L Fu, Y Li, W Wang, M Gong, J Zhang, X Dong… - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
Recent studies in both mice and humans have suggested that gut microbiota could
modulate tumor responsiveness to chemo-or immunotherapies. However, the underlying …

CD8+ T cell metabolism in infection and cancer

M Reina-Campos, NE Scharping… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Cytotoxic CD8+ T cells play a key role in the elimination of intracellular infections and
malignant cells and can provide long-term protective immunity. In the response to infection …

Auto-aggressive CXCR6+ CD8 T cells cause liver immune pathology in NASH

M Dudek, D Pfister, S Donakonda, P Filpe, A Schneider… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a manifestation of systemic metabolic disease
related to obesity, and causes liver disease and cancer,. The accumulation of metabolites …