[HTML][HTML] Siglec receptors as new immune checkpoints in cancer

MA Stanczak, H Läubli - Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy in the form of immune checkpoint inhibitors and cellular therapies
has improved the treatment and prognosis of many patients. Nevertheless, most cancers are …

Overcoming tumor resistance mechanisms in CAR-NK cell therapy

A Valeri, A García-Ortiz, E Castellano… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Despite the impressive results of autologous CAR-T cell therapy in refractory B
lymphoproliferative diseases, CAR-NK immunotherapy emerges as a safer, faster, and cost …

Single-cell functional genomics reveals determinants of sensitivity and resistance to natural killer cells in blood cancers

O Dufva, S Gandolfi, J Huuhtanen, O Dashevsky… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Cancer cells can evade natural killer (NK) cell activity, thereby limiting anti-tumor immunity.
To reveal genetic determinants of susceptibility to NK cell activity, we examined interacting …

Targeting the siglec–sialic acid immune axis in cancer: current and future approaches

H Läubli, SC Nalle, D Maslyar - Cancer immunology research, 2022 - aacrjournals.org
The sialic acid–binding immunoglobulin-like lectin (Siglec)–sialic acid immune axis is an
evolutionarily conserved immunoregulatory pathway that provides a mechanism for …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer cell-intrinsic PD-1: Its role in malignant progression and immunotherapy

M Chen, L Bie, J Ying - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1), also called CD279, is coded by the PDCD1 gene
and is constitutively expressed on the surface of immune cells. As a receptor and immune …

Targeting myeloid cells for cancer immunotherapy: Siglec-7/9/10/15 and their ligands

K Boelaars, Y van Kooyk - Trends in Cancer, 2024 - cell.com
Advances in immunotherapy have revolutionized cancer treatment, yet many patients do not
show clinical responses. While most immunotherapies target T cells, myeloid cells are the …

Redistribution of the glycocalyx exposes phagocytic determinants on apoptotic cells

T Le, I Ferling, L Qiu, C Nabaile, L Assunção… - Developmental Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Phagocytes remove dead and dying cells by engaging" eat-me" ligands such as
phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) on the surface of apoptotic targets. However, PtdSer is …

Disruption of the sialic acid/Siglec-9 axis improves antibody-mediated neutrophil cytotoxicity towards tumor cells

M Lustig, C Chan, JHM Jansen, M Bräutigam… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Upregulation of surface expressed sialoglycans on tumor cells is one of the mechanisms
which promote tumor growth and progression. Specifically, the interactions of sialic acids …

Insights into the role of sialylation in cancer metastasis, immunity, and therapeutic opportunity

J Huang, J Huang, G Zhang - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Sialylation is the synthetic process of sialoglycans, which are important in
tumor transformation, proliferation, metastasis, and immune evasion. The primary subjects of …

The glycoimmune checkpoint receptor Siglec-7 interacts with T-cell ligands and regulates T-cell activation

N Stewart, J Daly, O Drummond-Guy… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - jbc.org
Siglec-7 (sialic acid–binding immunoglobulin-like lectin 7) is a glycan-binding immune
receptor that is emerging as a significant target of interest for cancer immunotherapy. The …