Immune checkpoint inhibitors in melanoma

MS Carlino, J Larkin, GV Long - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Immune checkpoint inhibitors target the dysfunctional immune system, to induce cancer-cell
killing by CD8-positive T cells. Immune checkpoint inhibitors, specifically anti-CTLA4 and …

Signal pathways of melanoma and targeted therapy

W Guo, H Wang, C Li - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Melanoma is the most lethal skin cancer that originates from the malignant transformation of
melanocytes. Although melanoma has long been regarded as a cancerous malignancy with …

Gut microbiota signatures are associated with toxicity to combined CTLA-4 and PD-1 blockade

MC Andrews, CPM Duong, V Gopalakrishnan… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment with combined immune checkpoint blockade (CICB) targeting CTLA-4
and PD-1 is associated with clinical benefit across tumor types, but also a high rate of …

Combination of CTLA-4 and PD-1 blockers for treatment of cancer

A Rotte - Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research, 2019 - Springer
Targeting checkpoints of immune cell activation has been demonstrated to be the most
effective approach for activation of anti-tumor immune responses. Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte …

Inhibitors of immune checkpoints—PD-1, PD-L1, CTLA-4—new opportunities for cancer patients and a new challenge for internists and general practitioners

MZ Wojtukiewicz, MM Rek, K Karpowicz… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2021 - Springer
The treatment of cancer patients with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI)(anti-CTLA-4, anti-
PD-1, anti-PD-L1, combined therapy anti-PD-1/PD-L1 with anti-CTLA-4) has without doubt …

Interleukin-17–induced neutrophil extracellular traps mediate resistance to checkpoint blockade in pancreatic cancer

Y Zhang, V Chandra, E Riquelme Sanchez… - Journal of experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains a lethal malignancy with an
immunosuppressive microenvironment that is resistant to most therapies. IL17 is involved in …

Engineered probiotics for local tumor delivery of checkpoint blockade nanobodies

CR Gurbatri, I Lia, R Vincent, C Coker… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer therapy but only work in a subset of
patients and can lead to a multitude of toxicities, suggesting the need for more targeted …

Metastasis and immune evasion from extracellular cGAMP hydrolysis

J Li, MA Duran, N Dhanota, WK Chatila… - Cancer …, 2021 - aacrjournals.org
Cytosolic DNA is characteristic of chromosomally unstable metastatic cancer cells, resulting
in constitutive activation of the cGAS–STING innate immune pathway. How tumors co-opt …

Insertion-and-deletion-derived tumour-specific neoantigens and the immunogenic phenotype: a pan-cancer analysis

S Turajlic, K Litchfield, H Xu, R Rosenthal… - The lancet …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background The focus of tumour-specific antigen analyses has been on single nucleotide
variants (SNVs), with the contribution of small insertions and deletions (indels) less well …