Cancer immune evasion through loss of MHC class I antigen presentation

K Dhatchinamoorthy, JD Colbert, KL Rock - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Major histocompatibility class I (MHC I) molecules bind peptides derived from a cell's
expressed genes and then transport and display this antigenic information on the cell …

Mechanisms of MHC-I downregulation and role in immunotherapy response

BC Taylor, JM Balko - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapy has become a key therapeutic strategy in the treatment of many cancers. As
a result, research efforts have been aimed at understanding mechanisms of resistance to …

MHC class I downregulation in cancer: underlying mechanisms and potential targets for cancer immunotherapy

AM Cornel, IL Mimpen, S Nierkens - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent years, major advances have been made in cancer immunotherapy. This has led to
significant improvement in prognosis of cancer patients, especially in the hematological …

Epigenetics in cancer stem cells

TB Toh, JJ Lim, EKH Chow - Molecular cancer, 2017 - Springer
Compelling evidence have demonstrated that bulk tumors can arise from a unique subset of
cells commonly termed “cancer stem cells” that has been proposed to be a strong driving …

[HTML][HTML] Derivation of functional trophoblast stem cells from primed human pluripotent stem cells

F Soncin, R Morey, T Bui, DF Requena, VC Cheung… - Stem cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Trophoblast stem cells (TSCs) have recently been derived from human embryos and early-
first-trimester placenta; however, aside from ethical challenges, the unknown disease …

Valproic acid as epigenetic cancer drug: preclinical, clinical and transcriptional effects on solid tumors

A Duenas-Gonzalez, M Candelaria… - Cancer treatment …, 2008 - Elsevier
Among many anticancer drugs collectively named “targeted or molecular therapies”
epigenetic drugs are clearly promising. Differently from other agents targeting a single gene …

NKG2A is a therapeutic vulnerability in immunotherapy resistant MHC-I heterogeneous triple-negative breast cancer

BC Taylor, X Sun, PI Gonzalez-Ericsson, V Sanchez… - Cancer discovery, 2024 - AACR
Despite the success of immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) in treating cancer, patients with
triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) often develop resistance to therapy, and the underlying …

Challenges and solutions for therapeutic TCR‐based agents

M Malviya, ZEH Aretz, Z Molvi, J Lee… - Immunological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent development of methods to discover and engineer therapeutic T‐cell receptors
(TCRs) or antibody mimics of TCRs, and to understand their immunology and …

The cancer epigenome: exploiting its vulnerabilities for immunotherapy

HL Yau, I Ettayebi, DD De Carvalho - Trends in cell biology, 2019 - cell.com
During cancer initiation and progression, the somatic epigenome is broadly reprogrammed.
This reprogramming can be a consequence of several processes, including altered …

Histone deacetylase inhibitors induce TAP, LMP, Tapasin genes and MHC class I antigen presentation by melanoma cells

ANH Khan, CJ Gregorie, TB Tomasi - Cancer Immunology …, 2008 - Springer
Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi), including trichostatin A (TSA) and valproic acid, can
alter the acetylation of histones in chromatin and enhance gene transcription. Previously we …