A decade of checkpoint blockade immunotherapy in melanoma: understanding the molecular basis for immune sensitivity and resistance

AC Huang, R Zappasodi - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Ten years since the immune checkpoint inhibitor ipilimumab was approved for advanced
melanoma, it is time to reflect on the lessons learned regarding modulation of the immune …

Hypoxia-inducible factors: master regulators of hypoxic tumor immune escape

Q Wu, L You, E Nepovimova, Z Heger, W Wu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Hypoxia, a common feature of the tumor microenvironment in various types of cancers,
weakens cytotoxic T cell function and causes recruitment of regulatory T cells, thereby …

Overcoming immune evasion in melanoma

K Eddy, S Chen - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Melanoma is the most aggressive and dangerous form of skin cancer that develops from
transformed melanocytes. It is crucial to identify melanoma at its early stages, in situ, as it is …

Surmounting cancer drug resistance: New insights from the perspective of N6-methyladenosine RNA modification

B Li, J Jiang, YG Assaraf, H Xiao, ZS Chen… - Drug resistance …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite the development of targeted therapy, drug resistance remains a primary hindrance
to curative treatment of various cancers. Among several novel approaches to overcome drug …

JAK/STAT signaling: molecular targets, therapeutic opportunities, and limitations of targeted inhibitions in solid malignancies

B Rah, RA Rather, GR Bhat, AB Baba… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
JAK/STAT signaling pathway is one of the important regulatory signaling cascades for the
myriad of cellular processes initiated by various types of ligands such as growth factors …

Decoding melanoma development and progression: identification of therapeutic vulnerabilities

K Eddy, R Shah, S Chen - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Melanoma, a cancer of the skin, arises from transformed melanocytes. Melanoma has the
highest mutational burden of any cancer partially attributed to UV induced DNA damage …

Smart nanoparticle‐based platforms for regulating tumor microenvironment and cancer immunotherapy

R Cheng, HA Santos - Advanced healthcare materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor development and metastasis are closely related to the tumor microenvironment
(TME). Recently, several studies indicate that modulating TME can enhance cancer …

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy in melanoma: facts to the future

A Betof Warner, PG Corrie, O Hamid - Clinical Cancer Research, 2023 - AACR
Adoptive cell therapy with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) is gaining momentum and
demonstrating durable responses in patients with advanced melanoma. Although …

Reprogramming of Treg cells in the inflammatory microenvironment during immunotherapy: a literature review

X Wu, Z Zhou, Q Cao, Y Chen, J Gong… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Regulatory T cells (Treg), as members of CD4+ T cells, have garnered extensive attention in
the research of tumor progression. Treg cells have the function of inhibiting the immune …

The potential roles of exosomes in pancreatic cancer initiation and metastasis

W Sun, Y Ren, Z Lu, X Zhao - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Pancreatic cancer (PaCa) is an insidious and highly metastatic malignancy, with a 5-year
survival rate of less than 5%. So far, the pathogenesis and progression mechanisms of …