TGFβ control of immune responses in cancer: a holistic immuno-oncology perspective

BG Nixon, S Gao, X Wang, MO Li - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
The immune system responds to cancer in two main ways. First, there are prewired
responses involving myeloid cells, innate lymphocytes and innate-like adaptive lymphocytes …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor-associated macrophages expressing the transcription factor IRF8 promote T cell exhaustion in cancer

BG Nixon, F Kuo, LL Ji, M Liu, K Capistrano, M Do… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Tumors are populated by antigen-presenting cells (APCs) including macrophage subsets
with distinct origins and functions. Here, we examined how cancer impacts mononuclear …

Reprogramming tumour-associated macrophages to outcompete cancer cells

X Zhang, S Li, I Malik, MH Do, L Ji, C Chou, W Shi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In metazoan organisms, cell competition acts as a quality control mechanism to eliminate
unfit cells in favour of their more robust neighbours,. This mechanism has the potential to be …

Stemness in solid malignancies: co** with immune attack

J Agudo, Y Miao - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has become a key new pillar of cancer treatment, and this has sparked
interest in understanding mechanisms of cancer immune evasion. It has long been …

Orthogonal cytokine engineering enables novel synthetic effector states esca** canonical exhaustion in tumor-rejecting CD8+ T cells

J Corria-Osorio, SJ Carmona, E Stefanidis… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
To date, no immunotherapy approaches have managed to fully overcome T-cell exhaustion,
which remains a mandatory fate for chronically activated effector cells and a major …

Dietary fructose-mediated adipocyte metabolism drives antitumor CD8+ T cell responses

Y Zhang, X Yu, R Bao, H Huang, C Gu, Q Lv, Q Han… - Cell Metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Fructose consumption is associated with tumor growth and metastasis in mice, yet its impact
on antitumor immune responses remains unclear. Here, we show that dietary fructose …

Tumor editing suppresses innate and adaptive antitumor immunity and is reversed by inhibiting DNA methylation

Y Zhang, P Naderi Yeganeh, H Zhang, SY Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer cells edit gene expression to evade immunosurveillance. However, genome-wide
studies of gene editing during early tumorigenesis are lacking. Here we used single-cell …

Aggregation‐induced‐emission photosensitizer‐loaded nano‐superartificial dendritic cells with directly presenting tumor antigens and reversed immunosuppression …

Z Sun, J Liu, Y Li, X Lin, Y Chu, W Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The success of tumor immunotherapy highlights the potential of harnessing immune system
to fight cancer. Activating both native T cells and exhausted T cells is a critical step for …

Evolution of T cells in the cancer-resistant naked mole-rat

TD Lin, ND Rubinstein, NL Fong, M Smith… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Naked mole-rats (NMRs) are best known for their extreme longevity and cancer resistance,
suggesting that their immune system might have evolved to facilitate these phenotypes …

Dietary protein shapes the profile and repertoire of intestinal CD4+ T cells

A Lockhart, A Reed, T Rezende de Castro… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
The intestinal immune system must tolerate food antigens to avoid allergy, a process
requiring CD4+ T cells. Combining antigenically defined diets with gnotobiotic models, we …