Tumour-infiltrating B cells: immunological mechanisms, clinical impact and therapeutic opportunities

CM Laumont, AC Banville, M Gilardi, DP Hollern… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Although immunotherapy research to date has focused largely on T cells, there is mounting
evidence that tumour-infiltrating B cells and plasma cells (collectively referred to as tumour …

Role of B cells as antigen presenting cells

I Rastogi, D Jeon, JE Moseman, A Muralidhar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
B cells have been long studied for their role and function in the humoral immune system.
Apart from generating antibodies and an antibody-mediated memory response against …

Neoantigen-driven B cell and CD4 T follicular helper cell collaboration promotes anti-tumor CD8 T cell responses

C Cui, J Wang, E Fagerberg, PM Chen, KA Connolly… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary CD4 T follicular helper (TFH) cells support B cells, which are critical for germinal
center (GC) formation, but the importance of TFH-B cell interactions in cancer is unclear. We …

B cells in central nervous system disease: diversity, locations and pathophysiology

RW Jain, VW Yong - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
B cells represent a relatively minor cell population within both the healthy and diseased
central nervous system (CNS), yet they can have profound effects. This is emphasized in …

Glioblastoma heterogeneity at single cell resolution

D Eisenbarth, YA Wang - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the deadliest types of cancer and highly refractory to
chemoradiation and immunotherapy. One of the main reasons for this resistance to therapy …

Multi-stage mechanisms of tumor metastasis and therapeutic strategies

Z Liu, J Chen, Y Ren, S Liu, Y Ba, A Zuo… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
The cascade of metastasis in tumor cells, exhibiting organ-specific tendencies, may occur at
numerous phases of the disease and progress under intense evolutionary pressures. Organ …

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 …

Agonistic CD40 therapy induces tertiary lymphoid structures but impairs responses to checkpoint blockade in glioma

L van Hooren, A Vaccaro, M Ramachandran… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Gliomas are brain tumors characterized by an immunosuppressive microenvironment.
Immunostimulatory agonistic CD40 antibodies (αCD40) are in clinical development for solid …

Cancer cell heterogeneity & plasticity in glioblastoma and brain tumors

A Lauko, A Lo, MS Ahluwalia, JD Lathia - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Brain tumors remain one of the most difficult tumors to treat and, depending on the
diagnosis, have a poor prognosis. Of brain tumors, glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common …

Challenges in glioblastoma immunotherapy: mechanisms of resistance and therapeutic approaches to overcome them

KJ Habashy, R Mansour, C Moussalem… - British journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive primary malignant brain tumour. The
prognosis of patients with glioblastoma is poor, and their overall survival averages at 1 year …