[HTML][HTML] Small molecule-based immunomodulators for cancer therapy

Y Wu, Z Yang, K Cheng, H Bi, J Chen - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
Immunotherapy has led to a paradigm shift in the treatment of cancer. Current cancer
immunotherapies are mostly antibody-based, thus possessing advantages in regard to …

Challenges Coexist with Opportunities: Spatial Heterogeneity Expression of PD‐L1 in Cancer Therapy

Y Wang, Y Zhou, L Yang, L Lei, B He, J Cao… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer immunotherapy using anti‐programmed death‐ligand 1 (PD‐L1) antibodies has
been used in various clinical applications and achieved certain results. However, such …

Identification of a small-molecule Tim-3 inhibitor to potentiate T cell–mediated antitumor immunotherapy in preclinical mouse models

S Ma, Y Tian, J Peng, C Chen, X Peng, F Zhao… - Science Translational …, 2023 - science.org
T cell immunoglobulin and mucin-containing molecule 3 (Tim-3), expressed in dysfunctional
and exhausted T cells, has been widely acknowledged as a promising immune checkpoint …

Novel small-molecule PD-L1 inhibitor induces PD-L1 internalization and optimizes the immune microenvironment

C Sun, M Yin, Y Cheng, Z Kuang, X Liu… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Blocking the PD-1/PD-L1 interaction has become an important strategy for tumor therapy,
which has shown outstanding therapeutic effects in clinical settings. However, unsatisfactory …

Discovery of novel PD-L1 inhibitors that induce the dimerization, internalization, and degradation of PD-L1 based on the fragment coupling strategy

K Wang, X Zhang, Y Cheng, Z Qi, K Ye… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tumor cells can evade immune surveillance through overexpressing programmed cell death-
ligand 1 (PD-L1) to interact with programmed cell death-1 (PD-1). Besides, tumor-intrinsic …

Microscale thermophoresis as a tool to study protein interactions and their implication in human diseases

R Magnez, C Bailly, X Thuru - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The review highlights how protein–protein interactions (PPIs) have determining roles in most
life processes and how interactions between protein partners are involved in various human …

Interrogating ligand-receptor interactions using highly sensitive cellular biosensors

MA Funk, J Leitner, MC Gerner, JM Hammerler… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Interactions of membrane-resident proteins are important targets for therapeutic
interventions but most methods to study them are either costly, laborious or fail to reflect the …

Discovery and optimization of novel biphenyl derivatives bearing cyclopropyl linkage as potent programmed cell death-1/programmed cell death-ligand 1 inhibitors

T Jing, Z Zhang, Z Kang, J Mo, X Yue… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A series of novel compounds bearing a cyclopropyl linkage were designed, synthesized,
and evaluated as programmed cell death-1 (PD-1)/programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) …

Inside PD-1/PD-L1, 2 with their inhibitors

N Boisgerault, P Bertrand - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
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Nanotechnology applications in breast cancer immunotherapy

R Wang, P Kumar, M Reda, AG Wallstrum… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Next‐generation cancer treatments are expected not only to target cancer cells but also to
simultaneously train immune cells to combat cancer while modulating the immune …