How do cytotoxic lymphocytes kill cancer cells?

L Martínez-Lostao, A Anel, J Pardo - Clinical cancer research, 2015 - AACR
In the past few years, cancer immunotherapy has emerged as a safe and effective
alternative for treatment of cancers that do not respond to classical treatments, including …

[HTML][HTML] NK-mediated antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity in solid tumors: biological evidence and clinical perspectives

CL Nigro, M Macagno, D Sangiolo… - Annals of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The process of antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) makes use of the
innate immune cells providing antitumor cytotoxicity activated by antibodies linked to target …

The IKK/NF-κB signaling pathway requires Morgana to drive breast cancer metastasis

F Fusella, L Seclì, E Busso, A Krepelova… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
NF-κB is a transcription factor involved in the regulation of multiple physiological and
pathological cellular processes, including inflammation, cell survival, proliferation, and …

Toll-like receptor 2 promotes breast cancer progression and resistance to chemotherapy

A Di Lorenzo, E Bolli, R Ruiu, G Ferrauto… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are the main drivers of disease progression and chemotherapy
resistance in breast cancer. Tumor progression and chemoresistance might then be …

The untold story of granzymes in oncoimmunology: novel opportunities with old acquaintances

M Arias, L Martinez-Lostao, L Santiago, A Ferrandez… - Trends in cancer, 2017 - cell.com
For more than 20 years perforin and granzymes (GZMs) have been recognized as key cell
death executors of cytotoxic T (Tc) and natural killer (NK) cells during cancer …

A Virus-Like-Particle immunotherapy targeting Epitope-Specific anti-xCT expressed on cancer stem cell inhibits the progression of metastatic cancer in vivo

E Bolli, JP O'Rourke, L Conti, S Lanzardo… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Aggressive forms of breast cancer, such as Her2+ and triple negative breast cancer (TNBC),
are enriched in breast cancer stem cells (BCSC) and have limited therapeutic options …

T cells and regulated cell death: kill or be killed

J Spetz, AG Presser, KA Sarosiek - … Review of Cell and Molecular Biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Cell death plays two major complementary roles in T cell biology: mediating the removal of
cells that are targeted by T cells and the removal of T cells themselves. T cells serve as …

NK cells control breast cancer and related cancer stem cell hematological spread

R Tallerico, L Conti, S Lanzardo, R Sottile… - …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The growth and recurrence of a number of cancers is driven by a scarce population of
cancer stem cells (CSCs), which are resistant to most current therapies. It has been shown …

Immunotargeting of the xCT cystine/glutamate antiporter potentiates the efficacy of HER2-targeted immunotherapies in breast cancer

L Conti, E Bolli, A Di Lorenzo, V Franceschi… - Cancer immunology …, 2020 - AACR
Despite HER2-targeted therapies improving the outcome of HER2+ breast cancer, many
patients experience resistance and metastatic progression. Cancer stem cells (CSC) play a …

Bovine herpesvirus 4-based vector delivering the full length xCT DNA efficiently protects mice from mammary cancer metastases by targeting cancer stem cells

G Donofrio, G Tebaldi, S Lanzardo, R Ruiu… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Despite marked advancements in its treatment, breast cancer is still the second leading
cause of cancer death in women, due to relapses and distal metastases. Breast cancer stem …