New B7 family checkpoints in human cancers

L Ni, C Dong - Molecular cancer therapeutics, 2017 - AACR
T cells are the main effector cells in immune response against tumors. The activation of T
cells is regulated by the innate immune system through positive and negative costimulatory …

B7H3 as a promoter of metastasis and promising therapeutic target

P Dong, Y Xiong, J Yue, SJB Hanley, H Watari - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
B7H3 (also known as CD276, an immune checkpoint molecule) is aberrantly overexpressed
in many types of cancer, and such upregulation is generally associated with a poor clinical …

Spatially distinct tumor immune microenvironments stratify triple-negative breast cancers

T Gruosso, M Gigoux, VSK Manem… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Understanding the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) promises to be key for optimal
cancer therapy, especially in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Integrating spatial …

Immune checkpoint B7-H3 is a therapeutic vulnerability in prostate cancer harboring PTEN and TP53 deficiencies

W Shi, Y Wang, Y Zhao, JJ Kim, H Li, C Meng… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
Checkpoint immunotherapy has yielded meaningful responses across many cancers but
has shown modest efficacy in advanced prostate cancer. B7 homolog 3 protein (B7 …

Dual inhibition of TGFβ signaling and CSF1/CSF1R reprograms tumor-infiltrating macrophages and improves response to chemotherapy via suppressing PD-L1

TW Chen, WZ Hung, SF Chiang, WTL Chen, TW Ke… - Cancer letters, 2022 - Elsevier
TGFβ contributes to chemoresistance in advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) via diverse
immune-microenvironment mechanisms. Here, we found that cancer cell autonomous TGFβ …

B7-H4, a promising target for immunotherapy

JY Wang, WP Wang - Cellular Immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
The coinhibitory molecule B7-H4, an important member of the B7 family, is abnormally
expressed in tumors, inflammation and autoimmune diseases. B7-H4 negatively regulates T …

miR-448 targets IDO1 and regulates CD8+ T cell response in human colon cancer

Q Lou, R Liu, X Yang, W Li, L Huang, L Wei… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) is a critical regulator of T cell
function, contributing to immune tolerance. Upregulation of IDO1 has been found in many …

[HTML][HTML] To kill a cancer: Targeting the immune inhibitory checkpoint molecule, B7-H3

RK Kanchan, D Doss, P Khan, MW Nasser… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2022 - Elsevier
Targeting the anti-tumor immune response via the B7 family of immune-regulatory
checkpoint proteins has revolutionized cancer treatment and resulted in punctuated …

Opposing roles and potential antagonistic mechanism between TGF-β and BMP pathways: Implications for cancer progression

J Ning, Y Zhao, Y Ye, J Yu - EBioMedicine, 2019 - thelancet.com
The transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) superfamily participates in tumour proliferation,
apoptosis, differentiation, migration, invasion, immune evasion and extracellular matrix …

[HTML][HTML] Transcription factor RREB1: from target genes towards biological functions

YN Deng, Z Xia, P Zhang, S Ejaz… - International Journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Ras-responsive element binding protein 1 (RREB1) is a member of zinc finger
transcription factors, which is widely involved in biological processes including cell …