Metabolic programming and immune suppression in the tumor microenvironment

EN Arner, JC Rathmell - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Increased glucose metabolism and uptake are characteristic of many tumors and used
clinically to diagnose and monitor cancer progression. In addition to cancer cells, the tumor …

Macrophages as tools and targets in cancer therapy

A Mantovani, P Allavena, F Marchesi… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Tumour-associated macrophages are an essential component of the tumour
microenvironment and have a role in the orchestration of angiogenesis, extracellular matrix …

The foundations of immune checkpoint blockade and the ipilimumab approval decennial

AJ Korman, SC Garrett-Thomson… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunity, and the potential for cancer immunotherapy, have been topics of scientific
discussion and experimentation for over a hundred years. Several successful cancer …

Hallmarks of response, resistance, and toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade

G Morad, BA Helmink, P Sharma, JA Wargo - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Unprecedented advances have been made in cancer treatment with the use of immune
checkpoint blockade (ICB). However, responses are limited to a subset of patients, and …

The complex role of tumor-infiltrating macrophages

A Christofides, L Strauss, A Yeo, C Cao, A Charest… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Long recognized as an evolutionarily ancient cell type involved in tissue homeostasis and
immune defense against pathogens, macrophages are being re-discovered as regulators of …

Systemic immunity in cancer

KJ Hiam-Galvez, BM Allen, MH Spitzer - Nature reviews cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, but efficacy remains limited in most
clinical settings. Cancer is a systemic disease that induces many functional and …

Targeting tumor-associated macrophages to synergize tumor immunotherapy

X Xiang, J Wang, D Lu, X Xu - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
The current treatment strategies in advanced malignancies remain limited. Notably,
immunotherapies have raised hope for a successful control of these advanced diseases, but …

Hypoxic niches attract and sequester tumor-associated macrophages and cytotoxic T cells and reprogram them for immunosuppression

A Sattiraju, S Kang, B Giotti, Z Chen, VJ Marallano… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM), a highly lethal brain cancer, is notorious for immunosuppression, but
the mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we documented a temporospatial patterning of tumor …

Navigating CAR-T cells through the solid-tumour microenvironment

AJ Hou, LC Chen, YY Chen - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
The adoptive transfer of T cells that are engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors
(CARs) has shown remarkable success in treating B cell malignancies but only limited …

Neutrophil diversity and plasticity in tumour progression and therapy

S Jaillon, A Ponzetta, D Di Mitri, A Santoni… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Neutrophils play a key role in defence against infection and in the activation and regulation
of innate and adaptive immunity. In cancer, tumour-associated neutrophils (TANs) have …