Glioblastoma vaccines: past, present, and opportunities

Z Xiong, I Raphael, M Olin, H Okada, X Li… - …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most lethal central nervous systems (CNS) tumours in
adults. As supplements to standard of care (SOC), various immunotherapies improve the …

Immunologic tumor microenvironment modulators for turning cold tumors hot

GR Khosravi, S Mostafavi, S Bastan… - Cancer …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Tumors can be classified into distinct immunophenotypes based on the presence and
arrangement of cytotoxic immune cells within the tumor microenvironment (TME). Hot …

Immunotherapy-activated T cells recruit and skew late-stage activated M1-like macrophages that are critical for therapeutic efficacy

MJ van Elsas, J Middelburg, C Labrie, J Roelands… - Cancer Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Total tumor clearance through immunotherapy is associated with a fully coordinated innate
and adaptive immune response, but knowledge on the exact contribution of each immune …

Blockade of PD‐1 and CTLA‐4: a potent immunotherapeutic approach for hepatocellular carcinoma

K Hou, X Xu, X Ge, J Jiang, F Ouyang - Biofactors, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Immune checkpoints (ICPs) can promote tumor growth and prevent immunity‐induced
cancer cell apoptosis. Fortunately, targeting ICPs, such as programmed cell death 1 (PD‐1) …

Nano-enabled regulation of DNA damage in tumor cells to enhance neoantigen-based pancreatic cancer immunotherapy

J Wang, C Wu, Y Wang, Y Shen, K Wu, Y Shi, T Cao… - Biomaterials, 2024 - Elsevier
Low-expression antigens, especially neoantigens, pose a significant challenge in
immunotherapy for low immunogenicity pancreatic cancer. Increasing the tumor mutation …

T-cell immunity induced and reshaped by an anti-HPV immuno-oncotherapeutic lentiviral vector

I Fert, L Douguet, B Vesin, F Moncoq, A Noirat, P Authié… - npj Vaccines, 2024 - nature.com
We recently developed an immuno-oncotherapy against human papillomavirus (HPV)-
induced tumors based on a lentiviral vector encoding the Early E6 and E7 oncoproteins of …

[HTML][HTML] Butyrate facilitates immune clearance of colorectal cancer cells by suppressing STAT1-mediated PD-L1 expression

Y Zhang, Y Tao, Y Gu, Q Ma - Clinics, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
Highlights Butyrate could suppress IFN-γ-induced PD-L1 up-regulation in Colorectal Cancer
(CRC) cells. Butyrate promoted the lysine acetylation of STAT1 to reduce STAT1 expression …

TIMP-1 is an activator of MHC-I expression in myeloid dendritic cells with implications for tumor immunogenicity

M Langguth, E Maranou, SA Koskela, O Elenius… - Genes & …, 2024 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint therapies (ICT) for advanced solid tumors mark a new milestone in
cancer therapy. Yet their efficacy is often limited by poor immunogenicity, attributed to …

Tumor stroma-derived ANGPTL2 potentiates immune checkpoint inhibitor efficacy

H Horiguchi, T Kadomatsu, T Yamashita… - Cancer Gene …, 2024 - nature.com
Use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) as cancer immunotherapy has advanced rapidly
in the clinic. We recently reported that tumor stroma-derived angiopoietin-like protein 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Double-faced CX3CL1 enhances lymphangiogenesis-dependent metastasis in an aggressive subclone of oral squamous cell carcinoma

HS Eain, H Kawai, M Nakayama, MW Oo, T Ohara… - JCI insight, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Because cancer cells have a genetically unstable nature, they give rise to genetically
different variant subclones inside a single tumor. Understanding cancer heterogeneity and …