Improving cancer immunotherapy by rationally combining oncolytic virus with modulators targeting key signaling pathways

Z Zhu, AJR McGray, W Jiang, B Lu, P Kalinski, ZS Guo - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) represent a new class of multi-modal immunotherapies for cancer,
with OV-elicited antitumor immunity being key to their overall therapeutic efficacy. Currently …

Oncolytic virotherapy

SJ Russell, KW Peng, JC Bell - Nature biotechnology, 2012 - nature.com
Oncolytic virotherapy is an emerging treatment modality that uses replication-competent
viruses to destroy cancers. Recent advances include preclinical proof of feasibility for a …

Tinkering with translation: protein synthesis in virus-infected cells

D Walsh, MB Mathews, I Mohr - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites, and their replication requires host cell functions.
Although the size, composition, complexity, and functions encoded by their genomes are …

Virus-based immunotherapy of glioblastoma

M Martikainen, M Essand - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common type of primary brain tumor in adults. Despite
recent advances in cancer therapy, including the breakthrough of immunotherapy, the …

Vesicular stomatitis virus as a flexible platform for oncolytic virotherapy against cancer

E Hastie, VZ Grdzelishvili - Journal of General Virology, 2012 - microbiologyresearch.org
Oncolytic virus (OV) therapy is an emerging anti-cancer approach that utilizes viruses to
preferentially infect and kill cancer cells, while not harming healthy cells. Vesicular stomatitis …

Role of MAPK/MNK1 signaling in virus replication

R Kumar, N Khandelwal, R Thachamvally, BN Tripathi… - Virus research, 2018 - Elsevier
Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites; they heavily depend on the host cell machinery
to effectively replicate and produce new progeny virus particles. Following viral infection …

Mutations in the IFNγ-JAK-STAT pathway causing resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors in melanoma increase sensitivity to oncolytic virus treatment

TT Nguyen, LA Ramsay, M Ahanfeshar-Adams… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Purpose: Next-generation sequencing studies and CRISPR-Cas9 screens have established
mutations in the IFNγ-JAK-STAT pathway as an immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) resistance …

Smac mimetics synergize with immune checkpoint inhibitors to promote tumour immunity against glioblastoma

ST Beug, CE Beauregard, C Healy, T Sanda… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Small-molecule inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) antagonists, called Smac mimetic compounds
(SMCs), sensitize tumours to TNF-α-induced killing while simultaneously blocking TNF-α …

Leishmania repression of host translation through mTOR cleavage is required for parasite survival and infection

M Jaramillo, MA Gomez, O Larsson, MT Shio… - Cell host & …, 2011 - cell.com
The protozoan parasite Leishmania alters the activity of its host cell, the macrophage.
However, little is known about the effect of Leishmania infection on host protein synthesis …

eIF4E/4E-BP ratio predicts the efficacy of mTOR targeted therapies

T Alain, M Morita, BD Fonseca, A Yanagiya, N Siddiqui… - Cancer research, 2012 - AACR
Active-site mTOR inhibitors (asTORi) hold great promise for targeting dysregulated mTOR
signaling in cancer. Because of the multifaceted nature of mTORC1 signaling, identification …