Harnessing cytokines and chemokines for cancer therapy

DJ Propper, FR Balkwill - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2022 - nature.com
During the past 40 years, cytokines and cytokine receptors have been extensively
investigated as either cancer targets or cancer treatments. A strong preclinical rationale …

Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

J Zhang, D Huang, PE Saw, E Song - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved clinical benefit, but most
'immune-cold'solid tumors are not responsive. The diversity of immune evasion mechanisms …

Liver tumour immune microenvironment subtypes and neutrophil heterogeneity

R Xue, Q Zhang, Q Cao, R Kong, X Xiang, H Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The heterogeneity of the tumour immune microenvironment (TIME), organized by various
immune and stromal cells, is a major contributing factor of tumour metastasis, relapse and …

Pan-cancer T cell atlas links a cellular stress response state to immunotherapy resistance

Y Chu, E Dai, Y Li, G Han, G Pei, DR Ingram… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor-infiltrating T cells offer a promising avenue for cancer treatment, yet their states
remain to be fully characterized. Here we present a single-cell atlas of T cells from 308,048 …

Immunotherapies for hepatocellular carcinoma

JM Llovet, F Castet, M Heikenwalder… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Liver cancer, more specifically hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), is the second leading
cause of cancer-related death and its incidence is increasing globally. Around 50% of …

Single‐cell RNA sequencing technologies and applications: A brief overview

D Jovic, X Liang, H Zeng, L Lin, F Xu… - Clinical and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA‐seq) technology has become the state‐of‐the‐art
approach for unravelling the heterogeneity and complexity of RNA transcripts within …

[PDF][PDF] Conserved pan-cancer microenvironment subtypes predict response to immunotherapy

A Bagaev, N Kotlov, K Nomie, V Svekolkin, A Gafurov… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The clinical use of molecular targeted therapy is rapidly evolving but has primarily focused
on genomic alterations. Transcriptomic analysis offers an opportunity to dissect the …

[HTML][HTML] LRRC15+ myofibroblasts dictate the stromal setpoint to suppress tumour immunity

AT Krishnamurty, JA Shyer, M Thai, V Gandham… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Recent single-cell studies of cancer in both mice and humans have identified the
emergence of a myofibroblast population specifically marked by the highly restricted leucine …

[HTML][HTML] γδ T cells are effectors of immunotherapy in cancers with HLA class I defects

NL de Vries, J van de Haar, V Veninga, M Chalabi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
DNA mismatch repair-deficient (MMR-d) cancers present an abundance of neoantigens that
is thought to explain their exceptional responsiveness to immune checkpoint blockade …

[HTML][HTML] Tissue-resident FOLR2+ macrophages associate with CD8+ T cell infiltration in human breast cancer

RN Ramos, Y Missolo-Koussou, Y Gerber-Ferder… - Cell, 2022 - Elsevier
Macrophage infiltration is a hallmark of solid cancers, and overall macrophage infiltration
correlates with lower patient survival and resistance to therapy. Tumor-associated …