Engineering strategies to enhance oncolytic viruses in cancer immunotherapy

Y Tian, D Xie, L Yang - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are emerging as potentially useful platforms in treatment methods for
patients with tumors. They preferentially target and kill tumor cells, leaving healthy cells …

Optimizing oncolytic virotherapy in cancer treatment

K Harrington, DJ Freeman, B Kelly, J Harper… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
In the wake of the success of modern immunotherapy, oncolytic viruses (OVs) are currently
seen as a potential therapeutic option for patients with cancer who do not respond or fail to …

CD4 and CD8 T lymphocyte interplay in controlling tumor growth

D Ostroumov, N Fekete-Drimusz, M Saborowski… - Cellular and molecular …, 2018 - Springer
The outstanding clinical success of immune checkpoint blockade has revived the interest in
underlying mechanisms of the immune system that are capable of eliminating tumors even …

Oncolytic viruses as engineering platforms for combination immunotherapy

K Twumasi-Boateng, JL Pettigrew, YYE Kwok… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
To effectively build on the recent successes of immune checkpoint blockade, adoptive T cell
therapy and cancer vaccines, it is critical to rationally design combination strategies that will …

Immune checkpoints in the tumor microenvironment

SM Toor, VS Nair, J Decock, E Elkord - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Interactions between immune checkpoints (ICs) and their ligands negatively regulate T cell
activation pathways involved in physiological immune responses against specific antigens …

An engineered oncolytic virus expressing PD-L1 inhibitors activates tumor neoantigen-specific T cell responses

G Wang, X Kang, KS Chen, T Jehng, L Jones… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Oncolytic viruses offer an in situ vaccination approach to activate tumor-specific T cell
responses. However, the upregulation of PD-L1 expression on tumor cells and immune cells …

Combining oncolytic viruses with cancer immunotherapy: establishing a new generation of cancer treatment

T Shi, X Song, Y Wang, F Liu, J Wei - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The recent successes of tumor immunotherapy approaches, such as immune checkpoint
blockade (ICB) and chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy, have revolutionized …

Delivery and biosafety of oncolytic virotherapy

L Li, S Liu, D Han, B Tang, J Ma - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, oncolytic virotherapy has emerged as a promising anticancer therapy.
Oncolytic viruses destroy cancer cells, without damaging normal tissues, through virus self …

[HTML][HTML] New viral vectors for infectious diseases and cancer

E Sasso, AM D'Alise, N Zambrano, E Scarselli… - Seminars in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the discovery in 1796 by Edward Jenner of vaccinia virus as a way to prevent and
finally eradicate smallpox, the concept of using a virus to fight another virus has evolved into …

Oncolytic viruses and immune checkpoint inhibition: the best of both worlds

V Sivanandam, CJ LaRocca, NG Chen, Y Fong… - Molecular Therapy …, 2019 - cell.com
Cancer immunotherapy and the emergence of immune checkpoint inhibitors have markedly
changed the treatment paradigm for many cancers. They function to disrupt cancer cell …