Bacteria colonization in tumor microenvironment creates a favorable niche for immunogenic chemotherapy

SK Lim, WC Lin, SW Huang, YC Pan… - EMBO Molecular …, 2024 - embopress.org
The tumor microenvironment (TME) presents differential selective pressure (DSP) that favors
the growth of cancer cells, and monovalent therapy is often inadequate in reversing the …

Bioengineered smart bacterial carriers for combinational targeted therapy of solid tumours

S Alizadeh, A Esmaeili, A Barzegari… - Journal of Drug …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Despite many endeavours for the development of new anticancer drugs, effective therapy of
solid tumours remains a challenging issue. The current cancer chemotherapies may …

Bacteria-based immune therapies for cancer treatment

LM Howell, NS Forbes - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Engineered bacterial therapies that target the tumor immune landscape offer a new class of
cancer immunotherapy. Salmonella enterica and Listeria monocytogenes are two species of …

Killing tumor-associated bacteria with a liposomal antibiotic generates neoantigens that induce anti-tumor immune responses

M Wang, B Rousseau, K Qiu, G Huang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing evidence implicates the tumor microbiota as a factor that can influence cancer
progression. In patients with colorectal cancer (CRC), we found that pre-resection antibiotics …

Decorated bacteria and the application in drug delivery

F Wu, J Liu - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of living bacteria either as therapeutic agents or drug carriers has shown great
potential in treating a multitude of intractable diseases. However, cells are often fragile to …

Advances of bacteria-based delivery systems for modulating tumor microenvironment

S Li, H Yue, S Wang, X Li, X Wang, P Guo, G Ma… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
The components and hospitable properties of tumor microenvironment (TME) are associated
with tumor progression. Recently, TME modulating vectors and strategies have garnished …

Chemokines expressed by engineered bacteria recruit and orchestrate antitumor immunity

TM Savage, RL Vincent, SS Rae, LH Huang, A Ahn… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Tumors use multiple mechanisms to actively exclude immune cells involved in antitumor
immunity. Strategies to overcome these exclusion signals remain limited due to an inability …

[HTML][HTML] Bacteria and bacterial derivatives as delivery carriers for immunotherapy

SR Kang, DH Nguyen, SW Yoo, JJ Min - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
There is growing interest in the role of microorganisms in human health and disease, with
evidence showing that new types of biotherapy using engineered bacterial therapeutics …

Engineered Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium overcomes limitations of anti-bacterial immunity in bacteria-mediated tumor therapy

S Felgner, D Kocijancic, M Frahm, U Heise… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the industrialized world and represents a
tremendous social and economic burden. As conventional therapies fail to provide a …

[HTML][HTML] Commensal microbiota and cancer immunotherapy: harnessing commensal bacteria for cancer therapy

J Bae, K Park, YM Kim - Immune network, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and the number of cancer patients
is expected to continuously increase in the future. Traditional cancer therapies focus on …