A recombinant Listeria monocytogenes vaccine expressing a model tumour antigen protects mice against lethal tumour cell challenge and causes regression of …

ZK Pan, G Ikonomidis, A Lazenby, D Pardoll… - Nature medicine, 1995 - nature.com
Listeria monocytogenes is an intracellular organism that has the unusual ability to live in the
cytoplasm of the cell. It is thus a good vector for targeting protein antigens to the cellular arm …

Intravenous Delivery of Living Listeria monocytogenes Elicits Gasdmermin-Dependent Tumor Pyroptosis and Motivates Anti-Tumor Immune Response

Y Liu, Y Lu, B Ning, X Su, B Yang, H Dong, B Yin… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The facultative intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes (Lmo) has great potential for
development as a cancer vaccine platform given its properties. However, the clinical …

Pancreatic cancer is marked by complement-high blood monocytes and tumor-associated macrophages

SB Kemp, NG Steele, ES Carpenter… - Life science …, 2021 - life-science-alliance.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is accompanied by reprogramming of the local
microenvironment, but changes at distal sites are poorly understood. We implanted …

Regulation and modulation of antitumor immunity in pancreatic cancer

J Leinwand, G Miller - Nature immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma carries a dismal prognosis, and outcomes have
improved little with modern therapeutics. Checkpoint-based immunotherapy has failed to …

Harnessing the microbiome to enhance cancer immunotherapy

MH Nelson, MA Diven, LW Huff… - Journal of immunology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The microbiota plays a key role in regulating the innate and adaptive immune system.
Herein, we review the immunological aspects of the microbiota in tumor immunity in mice …

Two-step enhanced cancer immunotherapy with engineered Salmonella typhimurium secreting heterologous flagellin

JH Zheng, VH Nguyen, SN Jiang, SH Park… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
We report a method of cancer immunotherapy using an attenuated Salmonella typhimurium
strain engineered to secrete Vibrio vulnificus flagellin B (FlaB) in tumor tissues. Engineered …

CTLA-4/CD80 pathway regulates T cell infiltration into pancreatic cancer

F Bengsch, DM Knoblock, A Liu, F McAllister… - Cancer Immunology …, 2017 - Springer
The ability of some tumors to exclude effector T cells represents a major challenge to
immunotherapy. T cell exclusion is particularly evident in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma …

Clinical development of listeria monocytogenes–based immunotherapies

DT Le, TW Dubensky Jr, DG Brockstedt - Seminars in oncology, 2012 - Elsevier
Active immunotherapy targeting dendritic cells (DCs) has shown great promise in preclinical
models and in human clinical trials for the treatment of malignant disease. Sipuleucel-T …

Mechanisms of T-cell exhaustion in pancreatic cancer

D Saka, M Gökalp, B Piyade, NC Cevik, E Arik Sever… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
T-cell exhaustion is a phenomenon that represents the dysfunctional state of T cells in
chronic infections and cancer and is closely associated with poor prognosis in many …

Depletion of tumor-associated macrophages switches the epigenetic profile of pancreatic cancer infiltrating T cells and restores their anti-tumor phenotype

S Borgoni, A Iannello, S Cutrupi, P Allavena… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA) is characterized by a complex tumor
microenvironment that supports its progression, aggressiveness and resistance to therapies …