Targeting telomerase for cancer therapy

AN Guterres, J Villanueva - Oncogene, 2020 - nature.com
Telomere maintenance via telomerase reactivation is a nearly universal hallmark of cancer
cells which enables replicative immortality. In contrast, telomerase activity is silenced in most …

Telomerase in cancer: function, regulation, and clinical translation

NJ Robinson, WP Schiemann - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cells undergoing malignant transformation must circumvent replicative
senescence and eventual cell death associated with progressive telomere shortening that …

Neutralization of NET-associated human ARG1 enhances cancer immunotherapy

S Canè, RM Barouni, M Fabbi, J Cuozzo… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
Myeloid cells can restrain antitumor immunity by metabolic pathways, such as the
degradation of l-arginine, whose concentrations are regulated by the arginase 1 (ARG1) …

The cellular immunotherapy revolution: arming the immune system for precision therapy

RD Paucek, D Baltimore, G Li - Trends in immunology, 2019 - cell.com
Immunotherapy treatments harnessing the patient's immune system herald a new era of
personalized medicine, offering hope for curative responses in patients with serious …

[HTML][HTML] Interrupting the nitrosative stress fuels tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in pancreatic cancer

F De Sanctis, A Lamolinara, F Boschi… - … for ImmunoTherapy of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest tumors
owing to its robust desmoplasia, low immunogenicity, and recruitment of cancer-conditioned …

Anti-cancer immunotherapies targeting telomerase

S Negrini, R De Palma, G Filaci - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Telomerase is a reverse transcriptase that maintains telomeres length, compensating for the
attrition of chromosomal ends that occurs during each replication cycle. Telomerase is …

Expression of the membrane tetraspanin claudin 18 on cancer cells promotes T lymphocyte infiltration and antitumor immunity in pancreatic cancer

F De Sanctis, S Dusi, S Caligola, C Anselmi, V Petrova… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Tumors weakly infiltrated by T lymphocytes poorly respond to immunotherapy. We aimed to
unveil malignancy-associated programs regulating T cell entrance, arrest, and activation in …

Targeting the CXCR4 pathway using a novel anti-CXCR4 IgG1 antibody (PF-06747143) in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

MK Kashyap, CI Amaya-Chanaga, D Kumar… - Journal of hematology & …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background The CXCR4-CXCL12 axis plays an important role in the chronic
lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)-microenvironment interaction. Overexpression of CXCR4 has …

T-cell receptor–based immunotherapy for hematologic malignancies

MA Biernacki, M Brault, M Bleakley - The Cancer Journal, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Adoptive immunotherapy with engineered T cells is at the forefront of cancer treatment. T
cells can be engineered to express T-cell receptors (TCRs) specific for tumor-associated …

Antigen-specific TCR-T cells for acute myeloid leukemia: state of the art and challenges

S Kang, Y Li, J Qiao, X Meng, Z He, X Gao… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The cytogenetic abnormalities and molecular mutations involved in acute myeloid leukemia
(AML) lead to unique treatment challenges. Although adoptive T-cell therapies (ACT) such …