Targeting PD-1/PD-L1 pathway in myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia

X Yang, L Ma, X Zhang, L Huang, J Wei - Experimental Hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are clonal
hematopoietic stem cell diseases arising from the bone marrow (BM), and approximately …

Immune modulatory microRNAs involved in tumor attack and tumor immune escape

SB Eichmüller, W Osen, O Mandelboim… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Current therapies against cancer utilize the patient's immune system for tumor eradication.
However, tumor cells can evade immune surveillance of CD8+ T and/or natural killer (NK) …

Interferon-γ-induced activation of JAK1 and JAK2 suppresses tumor cell susceptibility to NK cells through upregulation of PD-L1 expression

R Bellucci, A Martin, D Bommarito, K Wang… - …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Inhibition of JAK1 or JAK2 in human tumor cells was previously shown to increase
susceptibility of these cells to NK cell lysis. In the present study, we examined the cellular …

Phase II trial of pembrolizumab after high-dose cytarabine in relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia

JF Zeidner, BG Vincent, A Ivanova, D Moore… - Blood cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Immune suppression, exhaustion, and senescence are frequently seen throughout disease
progression in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We conducted a phase II study of high-dose …

The emerging role of immune checkpoint based approaches in AML and MDS

P Boddu, H Kantarjian, G Garcia-Manero… - Leukemia & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The development of immune checkpoint inhibitors represents a major breakthrough in the
field of cancer therapeutics. Pursuant to their success in melanoma and numerous solid …

Targeting the immune microenvironment in acute myeloid leukemia: a focus on T cell immunity

AJ Lamble, EF Lind - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapies, such as chimeric antigen receptor T cells, bispecific antibodies, and
immune checkpoint inhibitors, have emerged as promising modalities in multiple …

The untold story of IFN-γ in cancer biology

MA Kursunel, G Esendagli - Cytokine & growth factor reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Interferon (IFN)-γ is the uppermost cytokine implicated in anti-tumor immunity. With its
cytostatic, pro-apoptotic and immune-provoking effects, IFN-γ plays a central role in the …

Immune evasion in acute myeloid leukemia: current concepts and future directions

RM Teague, J Kline - Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2013 - Springer
Immune responses generated against malignant cells have the potential to inhibit tumor
growth, or even eliminate transformed cells before a tumor forms. However, immune …

Acute myeloid leukemia cells express ICOS ligand to promote the expansion of regulatory T cells

Y Han, Y Dong, Q Yang, W Xu, S Jiang, Z Yu… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
CD4+ CD25+ Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) accumulate in bone marrow
microenvironment in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, little is known about how the …

Development of a chimeric antigen receptor targeting C-type lectin-like molecule-1 for human acute myeloid leukemia

E Laborda, M Mazagova, S Shao, X Wang… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
The treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with targeted immunotherapy is
challenged by the heterogeneity of the disease and a lack of tumor-exclusive antigens …