The efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 blockade in cold cancers and future perspectives

J Majidpoor, K Mortezaee - Clinical Immunology, 2021 - Elsevier
Colorectal cancer (CRC), and breast, ovarian, pancreatic and prostate cancers are generally
considered as low immune-reactive cancers that represent either limited infiltration of …

Pioneer of prostate cancer: past, present and the future of FOXA1

M Teng, S Zhou, C Cai, M Lupien, HH He - Protein & Cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed non-cutaneous cancers in North American
men. While androgen deprivation has remained as the cornerstone of prostate cancer …

Developmental cell programs are co-opted in inflammatory skin disease

G Reynolds, P Vegh, J Fletcher, EFM Poyner… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Human skin provides vital protection from water loss and from external
insult through structural adaptations and interplay with the innate and adaptive immune …

EZH2 inhibition activates a dsRNA–STING–interferon stress axis that potentiates response to PD-1 checkpoint blockade in prostate cancer

KL Morel, AV Sheahan, DL Burkhart, SC Baca… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Prostate cancers are considered to be immunologically 'cold'tumors given the very few
patients who respond to checkpoint inhibitor (CPI) therapy. Recently, enrichment of …

An androgen receptor switch underlies lineage infidelity in treatment-resistant prostate cancer

A Davies, S Nouruzi, D Ganguli, T Namekawa… - Nature cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancers adapt to increasingly potent targeted therapies by reprogramming their phenotype.
Here we investigated such a phenomenon in prostate cancer, in which tumours can escape …

[HTML][HTML] FOXA1 overexpression suppresses interferon signaling and immune response in cancer

Y He, L Wang, T Wei, YT Xiao, H Sheng… - The Journal Of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Androgen receptor–positive prostate cancer (PCa) and estrogen receptor–positive luminal
breast cancer (BCa) are generally less responsive to immunotherapy compared with certain …

HOXB13 suppresses de novo lipogenesis through HDAC3-mediated epigenetic reprogramming in prostate cancer

X Lu, K Fong, G Gritsina, F Wang, SC Baca, LT Brea… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
HOXB13, a homeodomain transcription factor, critically regulates androgen receptor (AR)
activities and androgen-dependent prostate cancer (PCa) growth. However, its functions in …

[HTML][HTML] Androgen receptor and MYC equilibration centralizes on developmental super-enhancer

H Guo, Y Wu, M Nouri, S Spisak, JW Russo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Androgen receptor (AR) in prostate cancer (PCa) can drive transcriptional repression of
multiple genes including MYC, and supraphysiological androgen is effective in some …

[PDF][PDF] STAG2 loss rewires oncogenic and developmental programs to promote metastasis in Ewing sarcoma

B Adane, G Alexe, BKA Seong, D Lu, EE Hwang… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The core cohesin subunit STAG2 is recurrently mutated in Ewing sarcoma but its biological
role is less clear. Here, we demonstrate that cohesin complexes containing STAG2 occupy …

[HTML][HTML] Subtype heterogeneity and epigenetic convergence in neuroendocrine prostate cancer

P Cejas, Y Xie, A Font-Tello, K Lim, S Syamala… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Neuroendocrine carcinomas (NEC) are tumors expressing markers of neuronal
differentiation that can arise at different anatomic sites but have strong histological and …