Cancer vaccines: the next immunotherapy frontier

MJ Lin, J Svensson-Arvelund, GS Lubitz, A Marabelle… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
After several decades, therapeutic cancer vaccines now show signs of efficacy and potential
to help patients resistant to other standard-of-care immunotherapies, but they have yet to …

Dendritic cell subsets in cancer immunity and tumor antigen sensing

A Del Prete, V Salvi, A Soriani, M Laffranchi… - Cellular & molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Dendritic cells (DCs) exhibit a specialized antigen-presenting function and play crucial roles
in both innate and adaptive immune responses. Due to their ability to cross-present tumor …

Immunogenic cell stress and death

G Kroemer, C Galassi, L Zitvogel, L Galluzzi - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Dying mammalian cells emit numerous signals that interact with the host to dictate the
immunological correlates of cellular stress and death. In the absence of reactive antigenic …

SLC38A2 and glutamine signalling in cDC1s dictate anti-tumour immunity

C Guo, Z You, H Shi, Y Sun, X Du, G Palacios, C Guy… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer cells evade T cell-mediated killing through tumour–immune interactions whose
mechanisms are not well understood,. Dendritic cells (DCs), especially type-1 conventional …

Mucosal vaccines—fortifying the frontiers

EC Lavelle, RW Ward - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Mucosal vaccines offer the potential to trigger robust protective immune responses at the
predominant sites of pathogen infection. In principle, the induction of adaptive immunity at …

Systemic immunity in cancer

KJ Hiam-Galvez, BM Allen, MH Spitzer - Nature reviews cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, but efficacy remains limited in most
clinical settings. Cancer is a systemic disease that induces many functional and …

Antigen presentation in cancer: insights into tumour immunogenicity and immune evasion

S Jhunjhunwala, C Hammer, L Delamarre - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade, which blocks inhibitory signals of T cell activation, has shown
tremendous success in treating cancer, although success still remains limited to a fraction of …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiota triggers STING-type I IFN-dependent monocyte reprogramming of the tumor microenvironment

KC Lam, RE Araya, A Huang, Q Chen, M Di Modica… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The tumor microenvironment (TME) influences cancer progression and therapy response.
Therefore, understanding what regulates the TME immune compartment is vital. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor-associated macrophages expressing the transcription factor IRF8 promote T cell exhaustion in cancer

BG Nixon, F Kuo, LL Ji, M Liu, K Capistrano, M Do… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Tumors are populated by antigen-presenting cells (APCs) including macrophage subsets
with distinct origins and functions. Here, we examined how cancer impacts mononuclear …

[HTML][HTML] Type I interferon activates MHC class I-dressed CD11b+ conventional dendritic cells to promote protective anti-tumor CD8+ T cell immunity

E Duong, TB Fessenden, E Lutz, T Dinter, L Yim, S Blatt… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor-infiltrating dendritic cells (DCs) assume varied functional states that impact anti-tumor
immunity. To delineate the DC states associated with productive anti-tumor T cell immunity …