STAT proteins in cancer: orchestration of metabolism

YJ Li, C Zhang, A Martincuks, A Herrmann… - Nature reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Reprogrammed metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. However, the metabolic dependency of
cancer, from tumour initiation through disease progression and therapy resistance, requires …

Type I interferon (IFN)-regulated activation of canonical and non-canonical signaling pathways

C Mazewski, RE Perez, EN Fish… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
For several decades there has been accumulating evidence implicating type I interferons
(IFNs) as key elements of the immune response. Therapeutic approaches incorporating …

Type I IFNs promote cancer cell stemness by triggering the epigenetic regulator KDM1B

M Musella, A Guarracino, N Manduca, C Galassi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a subpopulation of cancer cells endowed with high
tumorigenic, chemoresistant and metastatic potential. Nongenetic mechanisms of acquired …

Opposing roles of type I interferons in cancer immunity

GM Boukhaled, S Harding… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The immune system is tasked with identifying malignant cells to eliminate or prevent cancer
spread. This involves a complex orchestration of many immune cell types that together …

Plasticity of type I interferon-mediated responses in cancer therapy: from anti-tumor immunity to resistance

M Budhwani, R Mazzieri, R Dolcetti - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The efficacy of several therapeutic strategies against cancer, including cytotoxic drugs,
radiotherapy, targeted immunotherapies and oncolytic viruses, depend on intact type I …

Type I interferon and cancer

P Holicek, E Guilbaud, V Klapp, I Truxova… - Immunological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Type I interferon (IFN) is a class of proinflammatory cytokines with a dual role on malignant
transformation, tumor progression, and response to therapy. On the one hand, robust, acute …

IFNγ-induced stem-like state of cancer cells as a driver of metastatic progression following immunotherapy

L Beziaud, CM Young, AM Alonso, M Norkin… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Despite the remarkable success of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy, most cancer
patients still do not respond. We now find that immunotherapy can induce stem-like …

Revisiting telomere shortening in cancer

K Okamoto, H Seimiya - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Telomeres, the protective structures of chromosome ends are gradually shortened by each
cell division, eventually leading to senescence or apoptosis. Cancer cells maintain the …

[HTML][HTML] Inside the stemness engine: Mechanistic links between deregulated transcription factors and stemness in cancer

EH Ervin, R French, CH Chang, S Pauklin - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cell identity is largely determined by its transcriptional profile. In tumour, deregulation of
transcription factor expression and/or activity enables cancer cell to acquire a stem-like state …

Activation of the IFN signaling pathway is associated with resistance to CDK4/6 inhibitors and immune checkpoint activation in ER-positive breast cancer

C De Angelis, X Fu, ML Cataldo, A Nardone… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Abstract Purpose: Cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) and CDK6 inhibitors (CDK4/6i) are
highly effective against estrogen receptor–positive (ER+)/HER2− breast cancer; however …