Macrophage barrier in the tumor microenvironment and potential clinical applications

S Ji, Y Shi, B Yin - Cell Communication and Signaling, 2024 - Springer
The tumor microenvironment (TME) constitutes a complex microenvironment comprising a
diverse array of immune cells and stromal components. Within this intricate context, tumor …

Human lung cancer harbors spatially organized stem-immunity hubs associated with response to immunotherapy

JH Chen, LT Nieman, M Spurrell, V Jorgji… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The organization of immune cells in human tumors is not well understood. Immunogenic
tumors harbor spatially localized multicellular 'immunity hubs' defined by expression of the T …

Exploiting temporal aspects of cancer immunotherapy

RM Zemek, V Anagnostou, I Pires da Silva… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Many mechanisms underlying an effective immunotherapy-induced antitumour response are
transient and critically time dependent. This is equally true for several immunological events …

Spatial architecture of myeloid and T cells orchestrates immune evasion and clinical outcome in lung cancer

KSS Enfield, E Colliver, C Lee, A Magness, DA Moore… - Cancer discovery, 2024 - AACR
Understanding the role of the tumor microenvironment (TME) in lung cancer is critical to
improving patient outcomes. We identified four histology-independent archetype TMEs in …

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 …

Long-lasting mRNA-encoded interleukin-2 restores CD8+ T cell neoantigen immunity in MHC class I-deficient cancers

JD Beck, M Diken, M Suchan, M Streuber, E Diken… - Cancer Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I antigen presentation deficiency is a common
cancer immune escape mechanism, but the mechanistic implications and potential …

Early Immune Remodeling Steers Clinical Response to First-Line Chemoimmunotherapy in Advanced Gastric Cancer

M An, A Mehta, BH Min, YJ Heo, SJ Wright, M Parikh… - Cancer Discovery, 2024 - AACR
Adding anti–programmed cell death protein 1 (anti–PD-1) to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)/platinum
improves survival in some advanced gastroesophageal adenocarcinomas (GEA). To …

Multimodal and spatially resolved profiling identifies distinct patterns of T cell infiltration in nodal B cell lymphoma entities

T Roider, MA Baertsch, D Fitzgerald, H Voehringer… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
The redirection of T cells has emerged as an attractive therapeutic principle in B cell non-
Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL). However, a detailed characterization of lymphoma-infiltrating T …

[HTML][HTML] Tim4 enables large peritoneal macrophages to cross-present tumor antigens at early stages of tumorigenesis

S Joshi, L López, LG Morosi, R Amadio, M Pachauri… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Receptors controlling the cross-presentation of tumor antigens by macrophage subsets in
cancer tissues are poorly explored. Here, we show that TIM4+ large peritoneal …

Tumor-associated macrophages restrict CD8+ T cell function through collagen deposition and metabolic reprogramming of the breast cancer microenvironment

KM Tharp, K Kersten, O Maller, GA Timblin, C Stashko… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Tumor progression is accompanied by fibrosis, a condition of excessive extracellular matrix
accumulation, which is associated with diminished antitumor immune infiltration. Here we …