Mechanisms of MHC-I downregulation and role in immunotherapy response

BC Taylor, JM Balko - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapy has become a key therapeutic strategy in the treatment of many cancers. As
a result, research efforts have been aimed at understanding mechanisms of resistance to …

Combining epigenetic and immunotherapy to combat cancer

KB Chiappinelli, CA Zahnow, N Ahuja, SB Baylin - Cancer research, 2016 - AACR
The most exciting recent advance for achieving durable management of advanced human
cancers is immunotherapy, especially the concept of immune checkpoint blockade …

Myeloid sarcoma, chloroma, or extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia tumor: a tale of misnomers, controversy and the unresolved

RM Shallis, RP Gale, HM Lazarus, KB Roberts, ML Xu… - Blood reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The World Health Organization classification and definition of “myeloid sarcoma” is
imprecise and misleading. A more accurate term is “extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia …

DNMT1: A key drug target in triple-negative breast cancer

KK Wong - Seminars in cancer biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive subtype of breast cancer.
Altered epigenetics regulation including DNA hypermethylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 …

The role of DNA methylation in cancer

R Lakshminarasimhan, G Liang - DNA Methyltransferases-Role and …, 2016 - Springer
The malignant transformation of normal cells is driven by both genetic and epigenetic
changes. With the advent of next-generation sequencing and large-scale multinational …

Ovarian cancer: epigenetics, drug resistance, and progression

W **e, H Sun, X Li, F Lin, Z Wang, X Wang - Cancer cell international, 2021 - Springer
Ovarian cancer (OC) is one of the most common malignant tumors in women. OC is
associated with the activation of oncogenes, the inactivation of tumor suppressor genes, and …

[HTML][HTML] Nucleosidic DNA demethylating epigenetic drugs–a comprehensive review from discovery to clinic

K Agrawal, V Das, P Vyas, M Hajdúch - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2018 - Elsevier
DNA methylation plays a pivotal role in the etiology of cancer by mediating epigenetic
silencing of cancer-related genes. Since the relationship between aberrant DNA methylation …

NKG2A is a therapeutic vulnerability in immunotherapy resistant MHC-I heterogeneous triple-negative breast cancer

BC Taylor, X Sun, PI Gonzalez-Ericsson, V Sanchez… - Cancer discovery, 2024 - AACR
Despite the success of immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) in treating cancer, patients with
triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) often develop resistance to therapy, and the underlying …

Challenges and solutions for therapeutic TCR‐based agents

M Malviya, ZEH Aretz, Z Molvi, J Lee… - Immunological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent development of methods to discover and engineer therapeutic T‐cell receptors
(TCRs) or antibody mimics of TCRs, and to understand their immunology and …

DNMT1 as a therapeutic target in pancreatic cancer: mechanisms and clinical implications

KK Wong - Cellular Oncology, 2020 - Springer
Background Pancreatic cancer or pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the
most devastating cancer types with a 5-year survival rate of only 9%. PDAC is one of the …