Cancer stem cell–immune cell crosstalk in tumour progression

D Bayik, JD Lathia - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular heterogeneity and an immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment are
independent yet synergistic drivers of tumour progression and underlie therapeutic …

Untangling the web of intratumour heterogeneity

Z Li, M Seehawer, K Polyak - Nature cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Intratumour heterogeneity (ITH) is a hallmark of cancer that drives tumour evolution and
disease progression. Technological and computational advances have enabled us to …

Tumor mutational burden as a predictor of immunotherapy response: is more always better?

JH Strickler, BA Hanks, M Khasraw - Clinical Cancer Research, 2021 - AACR
Immune checkpoint inhibitors, including antibodies that block programmed cell death protein-
1 (PD-1) and PD-L1, have transformed the management of many cancers. However, the …

Integrated analysis of single-cell and bulk RNA sequencing data reveals a pan-cancer stemness signature predicting immunotherapy response

Z Zhang, ZX Wang, YX Chen, HX Wu, L Yin, Q Zhao… - Genome Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Although immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) is regarded as a breakthrough in
cancer therapy, only a limited fraction of patients benefit from it. Cancer stemness can be the …

How cancer cells make and respond to interferon-I

HJ Cheon, Y Wang, SM Wightman, MW Jackson… - Trends in cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Acute exposure of cancer cells to high concentrations of type I interferon (IFN-I) drives
growth arrest and apoptosis, whereas chronic exposure to low concentrations provides …

Cancer stemness meets immunity: from mechanism to therapy

P Chen, WH Hsu, J Han, Y Xia, RA DePinho - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are self-renewing cells that facilitate tumor initiation, promote
metastasis, and enhance cancer therapy resistance. Transcriptomic analyses across many …

Pan-cancer landscape of T-cell exhaustion heterogeneity within the tumor microenvironment revealed a progressive roadmap of hierarchical dysfunction associated …

Z Zhang, L Chen, H Chen, J Zhao, K Li, J Sun… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background T cells form the major component of anti-tumor immunity. A deeper
understanding of T cell exhaustion (TEX) heterogeneity within the tumor microenvironment …

Tumor microenvironment heterogeneity an important mediator of prostate cancer progression and therapeutic resistance

R Ge, Z Wang, L Cheng - NPJ precision oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity, which poses a major
challenge to precision therapy and drug development. In this review, we discuss how …

Relevance of immune cell and tumor microenvironment imaging in the new era of immunotherapy

F Galli, JV Aguilera, B Palermo, SN Markovic… - Journal of experimental …, 2020 - Springer
Tumor-infiltrating immune cells play a key role against cancer. However, malignant cells are
able to evade the immune response and establish a very complex balance in which different …

A single-cell atlas of the multicellular ecosystem of primary and metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma

Y Lu, A Yang, C Quan, Y Pan, H Zhang, Y Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents a paradigm of the relation between tumor
microenvironment (TME) and tumor development. Here, we generate a single-cell atlas of …