Exploiting senescence for the treatment of cancer

L Wang, L Lankhorst, R Bernards - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Senescence is a cellular response to a variety of stress signals that is characterized by a
stable withdrawal from the cell cycle and major changes in cell morphology and physiology …

Mechanisms regulating PD-L1 expression in cancers and associated opportunities for novel small-molecule therapeutics

H Yamaguchi, JM Hsu, WH Yang… - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Antagonistic antibodies targeting the inhibitory immune-checkpoint receptor PD-1 or its
ligand PD-L1 are used to treat a wide range of cancer types and can substantially improve …

Meta-analysis of tumor-and T cell-intrinsic mechanisms of sensitization to checkpoint inhibition

K Litchfield, JL Reading, C Puttick, K Thakkar… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) augment adaptive immunity. Systematic pan-tumor analyses
may reveal the relative importance of tumor-cell-intrinsic and microenvironmental features …

Regulation and function of the PD-L1 checkpoint

C Sun, R Mezzadra, TN Schumacher - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
Expression of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is frequently observed in human
cancers. Binding of PD-L1 to its receptor PD-1 on activated T cells inhibits anti-tumor …

Targeting CDK4 and CDK6 in cancer

S Goel, JS Bergholz, JJ Zhao - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) and CDK6 are critical mediators of cellular
transition into S phase and are important for the initiation, growth and survival of many …

Immune checkpoint signaling and cancer immunotherapy

X He, C Xu - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade therapy has become a major weapon in fighting cancer.
Antibody drugs, such as anti-PD-1 and anti-PD-L1, demonstrate obvious advantages such …

Rational combinations of targeted cancer therapies: background, advances and challenges

H **, L Wang, R Bernards - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, elucidation of the genetic defects that underlie cancer has
resulted in a plethora of novel targeted cancer drugs. Although these agents can initially be …

Blocking PD-L1–PD-1 improves senescence surveillance and ageing phenotypes

TW Wang, Y Johmura, N Suzuki, S Omori, T Migita… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The accumulation of senescent cells is a major cause of age-related inflammation and
predisposes to a variety of age-related diseases. However, little is known about the …

Programmed death ligand 1 signals in cancer cells

AVR Kornepati, RK Vadlamudi, TJ Curiel - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
The paradigm of surface-expressed programmed death ligand 1 (PDL1) signalling to
immune cell programmed death 1 (PD1) to inhibit antitumour immunity has helped to …

[HTML][HTML] Aerobic glycolysis promotes tumor immune evasion by hexokinase2-mediated phosphorylation of IκBα

D Guo, Y Tong, X Jiang, Y Meng, H Jiang, L Du, Q Wu… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
High expression of PD-L1 in tumor cells contributes to tumor immune evasion. However,
whether PD-L1 expression in tumor cells is regulated by the availability of nutrients is …