Tumor cell plasticity in targeted therapy-induced resistance: mechanisms and new strategies

ZD Shi, K Pang, ZX Wu, Y Dong, L Hao… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the success of targeted therapies in cancer treatment, therapy-induced resistance
remains a major obstacle to a complete cure. Tumor cells evade treatments and relapse via …

The transcriptional and epigenetic landscape of cancer cell lineage plasticity

A Davies, A Zoubeidi, H Beltran, LA Selth - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Lineage plasticity, a process whereby cells change their phenotype to take on a different
molecular and/or histologic identity, is a key driver of cancer progression and therapy …

Radiotherapy in combination with CD47 blockade elicits a macrophage-mediated abscopal effect

Y Nishiga, AP Drainas, M Baron, D Bhattacharya… - Nature Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Radiation therapy is a mainstay of cancer treatment but does not always lead to complete
tumor regression. Here we combine radiotherapy with blockade of the 'don't-eat-me'cell …

IL-18–secreting CAR T cells targeting DLL3 are highly effective in small cell lung cancer models

JE Jaspers, JF Khan, WD Godfrey… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) generally have a poor prognosis and a median
overall survival of only about 13 months, indicating the urgent need for novel therapies …

H3K27me3 conditions chemotolerance in triple-negative breast cancer

J Marsolier, P Prompsy, A Durand, AM Lyne… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The persistence of cancer cells resistant to therapy remains a major clinical challenge. In
triple-negative breast cancer, resistance to chemotherapy results in the highest recurrence …

KDM6A epigenetically regulates subtype plasticity in small cell lung cancer

L Duplaquet, Y Li, MA Booker, Y Xie, SN Olsen… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) exists broadly in four molecular subtypes: ASCL1,
NEUROD1, POU2F3 and Inflammatory. Initially, SCLC subtypes were thought to be mutually …

ALK peptide vaccination restores the immunogenicity of ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer

I Mota, E Patrucco, C Mastini, NR Mahadevan, TC Thai… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is
treated with ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), but the lack of activity of immune …

STING activation promotes robust immune response and NK cell–mediated tumor regression in glioblastoma models

G Berger, EH Knelson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Immunotherapy has had a tremendous impact on cancer treatment in the past decade, with
hitherto unseen responses at advanced and metastatic stages of the disease. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] MPS1 inhibition primes immunogenicity of KRAS-LKB1 mutant lung cancer

S Kitajima, T Tani, BF Springer, M Campisi, T Osaki… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
KRAS-LKB1 (KL) mutant lung cancers silence STING owing to intrinsic mitochondrial
dysfunction, resulting in T cell exclusion and resistance to programmed cell death (ligand) 1 …

Epigenetic state determines the in vivo efficacy of STING agonist therapy

R Falahat, A Berglund, P Perez-Villarroel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
While STING-activating agents have shown limited efficacy in early-phase clinical trials,
multiple lines of evidence suggest the importance of tumor cell-intrinsic STING function in …