Resistance mechanisms to anti-PD cancer immunotherapy

MD Vesely, T Zhang, L Chen - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The transformative success of antibodies targeting the PD-1 (programmed death 1)/B7-H1
(B7 homolog 1) pathway (anti-PD therapy) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However …

T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

Spatially organized multicellular immune hubs in human colorectal cancer

K Pelka, M Hofree, JH Chen, S Sarkizova, JD Pirl… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Immune responses to cancer are highly variable, with mismatch repair-deficient (MMRd)
tumors exhibiting more anti-tumor immunity than mismatch repair-proficient (MMRp) tumors …

CXCR3 expression in regulatory T cells drives interactions with type I dendritic cells in tumors to restrict CD8+ T cell antitumor immunity

MAM Ayala, TF Campbell, C Zhang, N Dahan… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Infiltration of regulatory T (Treg) cells, an immunosuppressive population of CD4+ T cells,
into solid cancers represents a barrier to cancer immunotherapy. Chemokine receptors are …

Chemical and biomolecular strategies for STING pathway activation in cancer immunotherapy

KM Garland, TL Sheehy, JT Wilson - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) cellular signaling pathway is a promising target
for cancer immunotherapy. Activation of the intracellular STING protein triggers the …

Single-cell landscape of the ecosystem in early-relapse hepatocellular carcinoma

Y Sun, L Wu, YU Zhong, K Zhou, Y Hou, Z Wang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has high relapse and low 5-year survival rates. Single-cell
profiling in relapsed HCC may aid in the design of effective anticancer therapies, including …

Multiplexed imaging mass cytometry of the chemokine milieus in melanoma characterizes features of the response to immunotherapy

T Hoch, D Schulz, N Eling, JM Gómez… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Intratumoral immune cells are crucial for tumor control and antitumor responses during
immunotherapy. Immune cell trafficking into tumors is mediated by binding of specific …

STING agonist-loaded, CD47/PD-L1-targeting nanoparticles potentiate antitumor immunity and radiotherapy for glioblastoma

P Zhang, A Rashidi, J Zhao, C Silvers, H Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
As a key component of the standard of care for glioblastoma, radiotherapy induces several
immune resistance mechanisms, such as upregulation of CD47 and PD-L1. Here …

The immune contexture and Immunoscore in cancer prognosis and therapeutic efficacy

D Bruni, HK Angell, J Galon - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The international American Joint Committee on Cancer/Union for International
Cancer Control (AJCC/UICC) tumour-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system provides the …

Mechanisms of immune activation and regulation: lessons from melanoma

S Kalaora, A Nagler, JA Wargo, Y Samuels - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Melanoma, a skin cancer that develops from pigment cells, has been studied intensively,
particularly in terms of the immune response to tumours, and has been used as a model for …