Targeting tumor-associated macrophages to synergize tumor immunotherapy

X Xiang, J Wang, D Lu, X Xu - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
The current treatment strategies in advanced malignancies remain limited. Notably,
immunotherapies have raised hope for a successful control of these advanced diseases, but …

Phagocytosis checkpoints as new targets for cancer immunotherapy

M Feng, W Jiang, BYS Kim, CC Zhang, YX Fu… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapies targeting adaptive immune checkpoints have substantially
improved patient outcomes across multiple metastatic and treatment-refractory cancer types …

Modular-designed engineered bacteria for precision tumor immunotherapy via spatiotemporal manipulation by magnetic field

X Ma, X Liang, Y Li, Q Feng, K Cheng, N Ma… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Micro-nano biorobots based on bacteria have demonstrated great potential for tumor
diagnosis and treatment. The bacterial gene expression and drug release should be …

[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 …

The role of hypoxia‐inducible factor 1 in tumor immune evasion

L You, W Wu, X Wang, L Fang, V Adam… - Medicinal research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Hypoxia‐inducible factor 1 (HIF‐1) plays an indispensable role in the hypoxic tumor
microenvironment. Hypoxia and HIF‐1 are involved in multiple aspects of tumor progression …

ATR-mediated CD47 and PD-L1 up-regulation restricts radiotherapy-induced immune priming and abscopal responses in colorectal cancer

RCE Hsieh, S Krishnan, RC Wu, AR Boda, A Liu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Radiotherapy (RT) of colorectal cancer (CRC) can prime adaptive immunity against tumor-
associated antigen (TAA)–expressing CRC cells systemically. However, abscopal tumor …

Programmable bacteria induce durable tumor regression and systemic antitumor immunity

S Chowdhury, S Castro, C Coker, TE Hinchliffe… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Synthetic biology is driving a new era of medicine through the genetic programming of living
cells,. This transformative approach allows for the creation of engineered systems that …

Cross-talk between cancer stem cells and immune cells: potential therapeutic targets in the tumor immune microenvironment

B Wu, X Shi, M Jiang, H Liu - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Ongoing research has revealed that the existence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) is one of the
biggest obstacles in the current cancer therapy. CSCs make an influential function in tumor …

Cancer stemness meets immunity: from mechanism to therapy

P Chen, WH Hsu, J Han, Y Xia, RA DePinho - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are self-renewing cells that facilitate tumor initiation, promote
metastasis, and enhance cancer therapy resistance. Transcriptomic analyses across many …

Nanoparticle-mediated CD47-SIRPα blockade and calreticulin exposure for improved cancer chemo-immunotherapy

JQ Luo, R Liu, FM Chen, JY Zhang, SJ Zheng… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Enabling macrophages to phagocytose tumor cells holds great potential for cancer therapy
but suffers from tremendous challenges because the tumor cells upregulate …