Advances in mass spectrometry imaging for spatial cancer metabolomics

X Ma, FM Fernández - Mass spectrometry reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mass spectrometry (MS) has become a central technique in cancer research. The ability to
analyze various types of biomolecules in complex biological matrices makes it well suited for …

[HTML][HTML] Siglec receptors as new immune checkpoints in cancer

MA Stanczak, H Läubli - Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy in the form of immune checkpoint inhibitors and cellular therapies
has improved the treatment and prognosis of many patients. Nevertheless, most cancers are …

A unique serum IgG glycosylation signature predicts development of Crohn's disease and is associated with pathogenic antibodies to mannose glycan

J Gaifem, CS Rodrigues, F Petralia, I Alves… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is characterized by chronic inflammation in the gut. There
is growing evidence in Crohn's disease (CD) of the existence of a preclinical period …

Galectin-1 fosters an immunosuppressive microenvironment in colorectal cancer by reprogramming CD8+ regulatory T cells

AJ Cagnoni, ML Giribaldi, AG Blidner… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Colorectal cancer (CRC) represents the third most common malignancy and the second
leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Although immunotherapy has taken …

The effect of hypoxia and hypoxia-associated pathways in the regulation of antitumor response: friends or foes?

R Abou Khouzam, RF Zaarour… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hypoxia is an environmental stressor that is instigated by low oxygen availability. It fuels the
progression of solid tumors by driving tumor plasticity, heterogeneity, stemness and genomic …

The role of C-type lectin receptor signaling in the intestinal microbiota-inflammation-cancer axis

M Li, R Zhang, J Li, J Li - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As a subset of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), C-type lectin-like receptors (CLRs) are
mainly expressed by myeloid cells as both transmembrane and soluble forms. CLRs …

Glycans as shapers of tumour microenvironment: a sweet driver of T‐cell‐mediated anti‐tumour immune response

A Fernandes, CM Azevedo, MC Silva, G Faria… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Essentially all cells are covered with a dense coat of different glycan structures/sugar chains,
giving rise to the so‐called glycocalyx. Changes in cellular glycosylation are a hallmark of …

The cancer cell-derived extracellular vesicle glycocode in immunoevasion

JP Goncalves, VJ Deliwala, D Kolarich… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Recent evidence suggests that cancer cell-derived extracellular vesicles might facilitate
immunoevasion. Glycans are known to play a key role in immunomodulation, especially …

Glycans as a key factor in self and nonself discrimination: impact on the breach of immune tolerance

I Alves, Â Fernandes, B Santos‐Pereira… - FEBS …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glycans are carbohydrates that are made by all organisms and covalently conjugated to
other biomolecules. Glycans cover the surface of both human cells and pathogens and are …

Aberrant N-glycosylation in cancer: MGAT5 and β1,6-GlcNAc branched N-glycans as critical regulators of tumor development and progression

M de-Souza-Ferreira, ÉE Ferreira… - Cellular Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Background Changes in protein glycosylation are widely observed in tumor cells. N-glycan
branching through adding β1, 6-linked N-acetylglucosamine (β1, 6-GlcNAc) to an α1, 6 …