Immunotherapeutic strategies for the treatment of glioblastoma: current challenges and future perspectives

I Salvato, A Marchini - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Despite decades of research and the best up-to-date treatments, grade 4 Glioblastoma
(GBM) remains uniformly fatal with a patient median overall survival of less than 2 years …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical and translational advances in glioma immunotherapy

L Bunse, T Bunse, C Krämer, YC Chih, M Platten - Neurotherapeutics, 2022 - Elsevier
Gliomas are highly treatment refractory against immune checkpoint blockade, an
immunotherapeutic modality that revolutionized therapy for many tumors. At the same time …

Accurate prediction of HLA class II antigen presentation across all loci using tailored data acquisition and refined machine learning

JB Nilsson, S Kaabinejadian, H Yari, MGD Kester… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Accurate prediction of antigen presentation by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II
molecules is crucial for rational development of immunotherapies and vaccines targeting …

A H3K27M-targeted vaccine in adults with diffuse midline glioma

N Grassl, I Poschke, K Lindner, L Bunse… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Substitution of lysine 27 to methionine in histone H3 (H3K27M) defines an aggressive
subtype of diffuse glioma. Previous studies have shown that a H3K27M-specific long peptide …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo macrophage engineering reshapes the tumor microenvironment leading to eradication of liver metastases

T Kerzel, G Giacca, S Beretta, C Bresesti, M Notaro… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Liver metastases are associated with poor response to current pharmacological treatments,
including immunotherapy. We describe a lentiviral vector (LV) platform to selectively …

Glioblastoma induces the recruitment and differentiation of dendritic-like “hybrid” neutrophils from skull bone marrow

M Lad, AS Beniwal, S Jain, P Shukla, V Kalistratova… - Cancer cell, 2024 - cell.com
Tumor-associated neutrophil (TAN) effects on glioblastoma (GBM) biology remain under-
characterized. We show here that neutrophils with dendritic features—including …

A novel engineered IL-21 receptor arms T-cell receptor-engineered T cells (TCR-T cells) against hepatocellular carcinoma

W Zhu, Z Zhang, J Chen, X Chen, L Huang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Strategies to improve T cell therapy efficacy in solid tumors such as hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) are urgently needed. The common cytokine receptor γ chain (γc) family …

C5aR1 inhibition reprograms tumor associated macrophages and reverses PARP inhibitor resistance in breast cancer

X Li, A Poire, KJ Jeong, D Zhang, TY Ozmen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Although Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors (PARPi) have been approved in
multiple diseases, including BRCA1/2 mutant breast cancer, responses are usually transient …

ImmuneApp for HLA-I epitope prediction and immunopeptidome analysis

H Xu, R Hu, X Dong, L Kuang, W Zhang, C Tu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Advances in mass spectrometry accelerates the characterization of HLA ligandome,
necessitating the development of efficient methods for immunopeptidomics analysis and …

Exosome‐transmitted podoplanin promotes tumor‐associated macrophage‐mediated immune tolerance in glioblastoma

M Wu, Y Shi, Y Liu, H Huang, J Che… - CNS Neuroscience & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Glioblastoma is the most frequent and aggressive primary brain tumor, characterized
by rapid disease course and poor treatment responsiveness. The abundance of …