[HTML][HTML] Siglec receptors as new immune checkpoints in cancer

MA Stanczak, H Läubli - Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy in the form of immune checkpoint inhibitors and cellular therapies
has improved the treatment and prognosis of many patients. Nevertheless, most cancers are …

Dendritic cells as orchestrators of anticancer immunity and immunotherapy

I Heras-Murillo, I Adán-Barrientos, M Galán… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Dendritic cells (DCs) are a heterogeneous group of antigen-presenting innate immune cells
that regulate adaptive immunity, including against cancer. Therefore, understanding the …

Targeting the Siglec–sialic acid axis promotes antitumor immune responses in preclinical models of glioblastoma

P Schmassmann, J Roux, A Buck, N Tatari… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive form of primary brain tumor, for which effective
therapies are urgently needed. Cancer cells are capable of evading clearance by …

Targeting cancer glycosylation repolarizes tumor-associated macrophages allowing effective immune checkpoint blockade

MA Stanczak, N Rodrigues Mantuano… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has substantially improved the prognosis of patients with
cancer, but the majority experiences limited benefit, supporting the need for new therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting stromal cell sialylation reverses T cell-mediated immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment

H Egan, O Treacy, K Lynch, NA Leonard, G O'Malley… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Immunosuppressive tumor microenvironments (TMEs) reduce the effectiveness of immune
responses in cancer. Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs), precursors to cancer-associated …

[HTML][HTML] Roles of glycosylation at the cancer cell surface: opportunities for large scale glycoproteomics

T Čaval, F Alisson-Silva, F Schwarz - Theranostics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cell surface glycosylation has a variety of functions, and its dysregulation in cancer
contributes to impaired signaling, metastasis and the evasion of the immune responses …

[HTML][HTML] Design of a mucin-selective protease for targeted degradation of cancer-associated mucins

K Pedram, DJ Shon, GS Tender, NR Mantuano… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation is an emerging strategy for the elimination of classically
undruggable proteins. Here, to expand the landscape of targetable substrates, we designed …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging trends in immunotherapy for cancer

AK Mishra, A Ali, S Dutta, S Banday, SK Malonia - Diseases, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in cancer immunology have enabled the discovery of promising
immunotherapies for various malignancies that have shifted the cancer treatment paradigm …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the impact of sialic acids on the immune landscape and immunotherapy efficacy in pancreatic cancer

K Boelaars, L Goossens-Kruijssen… - … for Immunotherapy of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest cancers.
Despite the successful application of immune checkpoint blockade in a range of human …

[HTML][HTML] Pancreatic cancer-associated fibroblasts modulate macrophage differentiation via sialic acid-Siglec interactions

K Boelaars, E Rodriguez, ZR Huinen, C Liu… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite recent advances in cancer immunotherapy, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
(PDAC) remains unresponsive due to an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment …