STING agonists as cancer therapeutics

A Amouzegar, M Chelvanambi, JN Filderman… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Immunotherapies have revolutionized the field of cancer therapeutics, yet
a substantial subset of patients fail to respond. Recent efforts have focused on identifying …

B cells in the tumor microenvironment: Multi-faceted organizers, regulators, and effectors of anti-tumor immunity

CM Laumont, BH Nelson - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Our understanding of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) is rapidly expanding beyond T cell-
centric perspectives to include B cells and plasma cells, collectively referred to as TIL-Bs. In …

STING-activating nanoparticles normalize the vascular-immune interface to potentiate cancer immunotherapy

L Wang-Bishop, BR Kimmel, VM Ngwa… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The tumor-associated vasculature imposes major structural and biochemical barriers to the
infiltration of effector T cells and effective tumor control. Correlations between stimulator of …

STING activation promotes robust immune response and NK cell–mediated tumor regression in glioblastoma models

G Berger, EH Knelson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Immunotherapy has had a tremendous impact on cancer treatment in the past decade, with
hitherto unseen responses at advanced and metastatic stages of the disease. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] MPS1 inhibition primes immunogenicity of KRAS-LKB1 mutant lung cancer

S Kitajima, T Tani, BF Springer, M Campisi, T Osaki… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
KRAS-LKB1 (KL) mutant lung cancers silence STING owing to intrinsic mitochondrial
dysfunction, resulting in T cell exclusion and resistance to programmed cell death (ligand) 1 …

Cancer cell-intrinsic mechanisms driving acquired immune tolerance

E Ghorani, C Swanton, SA Quezada - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Immune evasion is a hallmark of cancer, enabling tumors to survive contact with the host
immune system and evade the cycle of immune recognition and destruction. Here, we …

New strategy for promoting vascularization in tumor spheroids in a microfluidic assay

Z Wan, MA Floryan, MF Coughlin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies have developed vascularized tumor spheroid models to demonstrate the
impact of intravascular flow on tumor progression and treatment. However, these models …

Development of a perfusable, hierarchical microvasculature-on-a-chip model

SW Chen, A Blazeski, S Zhang, SE Shelton… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Several methods have been developed for generating 3D, in vitro, organ-on-chip models of
human vasculature to study vascular function, transport, and tissue engineering. However …

[PDF][PDF] DNA sensing in cancer: Pro-tumour and anti-tumour functions of cGAS–STING signalling

OPG Wheeler, L Unterholzner - Essays in Biochemistry, 2023 - portlandpress.com
The DNA sensor cGAS (cyclic GMP-AMP synthase) and its adaptor protein STING
(Stimulator of Interferon Genes) detect the presence of cytosolic DNA as a sign of infection or …

Engineering approaches for studying immune-tumor cell interactions and immunotherapy

SE Shelton, HT Nguyen, DA Barbie, RD Kamm - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
This review describes recent research that has advanced our understanding of the role of
immune cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) using advanced 3D in vitro models and …