Beyond the barrier: unraveling the mechanisms of immunotherapy resistance

HN Bell, W Zou - Annual Review of Immunology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) induces a remarkable and durable response in a subset
of cancer patients. However, most patients exhibit either primary or acquired resistance to …

Innovative strategies of reprogramming immune system cells by targeting CRISPR/Cas9-based genome-editing tools: a new era of cancer management

KS Allemailem, MA Alsahli, A Almatroudi… - International Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The recent developments in the study of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic
repeats/associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) system have revolutionized the art of genome …

Up-regulated PLA2G10 in cancer impairs T cell infiltration to dampen immunity

T Zhang, W Yu, X Cheng, J Yeung, V Ahumada… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
T cells are often absent from human cancer tissues during both spontaneously induced
immunity and therapeutic immunotherapy, even in the presence of a functional T cell …

Attenuated effector T cells are linked to control of chronic HBV infection

K Heim, Sagar, Ö Sogukpinar, S Llewellyn-Lacey… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Hepatitis B virus (HBV)-specific CD8+ T cells play a dominant role during acute-resolving
HBV infection but are functionally impaired during chronic HBV infection in humans. These …

Cancer-associated fibroblast spatial heterogeneity and EMILIN1 expression in the tumor microenvironment modulate TGF-β activity and CD8+ T-cell infiltration in …

CK Honda, S Kurozumi, T Fujii, D Pourquier… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: The tumor microenvironment (TME) and its multifaceted interactions with cancer
cells are major targets for cancer treatment. Single-cell technologies have brought major …

Preclinical models for drug discovery for metastatic disease

L Wakefield, S Agarwal, K Tanner - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Despite many advances, metastatic disease remains essentially uncurable. Thus, there is an
urgent need to better understand mechanisms that promote metastasis, drive tumor …

Immunotherapy in biliary tract cancers: current standard-of-care and emerging strategies

JH Lo, R Agarwal, LW Goff, TR Heumann - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Biliary tract cancers (BTCs), comprising cancers of the bile ducts
(cholangiocarcinoma) as well as gallbladder cancers, continue to be challenging to treat …

Spatial analysis reveals targetable macrophage-mediated mechanisms of immune evasion in hepatocellular carcinoma minimal residual disease

L Lemaitre, N Adeniji, A Suresh, R Reguram, J Zhang… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) frequently recurs from minimal residual disease (MRD),
which persists after therapy. Here, we identified mechanisms of persistence of residual …

The TGFβ type I receptor kinase inhibitor vactosertib in combination with pomalidomide in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma: a phase 1b trial

E Malek, PS Rana, M Swamydas, M Daunov… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Functional blockade of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGFβ) signalling pathway
improves the efficacy of cytotoxic and immunotherapies. Here, we conducted a phase 1b …

68Ga-FAPI PET imaging monitors response to combined TGF-βR inhibition and immunotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancer

K Li, W Liu, H Yu, J Chen, W Tang, J Wang, M Qi… - The Journal of clinical …, 2024 - jci.org
BACKGROUND Improving and predicting tumor response to immunotherapy remains
challenging. Combination therapy with a transforming growth factor-β receptor (TGF-βR) …