Why do human B cells secrete granzyme B? Insights into a novel B-cell differentiation pathway.

abstract：:Immune suppression is recognized as a hallmark of cancer and this notion is largely based on studies on cellular immunity. Our recent studies have demonstrated a potential new mechanism of cancer suppression of immunity by impairment of antibody effector function mediated by proteolytic enzymes in the tumor microenvir...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Zhang N,Jordan RE,An Z

更新日期：2015-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of colorectal liver metastases activates a specific T-cell response that is ineffective in avoiding recurrence. Recently, local immunomodulation garnered interests as a way to improve the immune response. We were interested in improving the RFA immune response priming to propose a curativ...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Lemdani K,Mignet N,Boudy V,Seguin J,Oujagir E,Bawa O,Peschaud F,Emile JF,Capron C,Malafosse R

更新日期：2019-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 blockades is heterogeneous in different molecular subtypes of gastric cancer (GC). In this study, we analyzed relevant clinical trials to identify the molecular subtypes associated with the efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 blockades, and public datasets, patient samples, and GC cell lines were used fo...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Zhao R,Wan Q,Wang Y,Wu Y,Xiao S,Li Q,Shen X,Zhuang W,Zhou Y,Xia L,Song Y,Chen Y,Yang H,Wu X

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical resection is the mainstay of treatment for solid tumors, but the postoperative period is uniquely inclined to the formation of metastases, largely due to the suppression of natural killer (NK) cells. We found that preoperative influenza vaccination prevents postoperative NK-cell dysfunction, attenuating tumor...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Tai LH,Zhang J,Auer RC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) is a strong prognostic parameter for local dissemination and overall survival in melanoma. Lymphocyte migration from blood into peripheral tissues is mainly regulated by vascular endothelium. However, the blood vessels and mechanisms governing the recruitment of TI...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Martinet L,Le Guellec S,Filleron T,Lamant L,Meyer N,Rochaix P,Garrido I,Girard JP

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages in the tumor microenvironment respond to complex cytokine signals. How these responses shape the phenotype of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) is incompletely understood. Here we explored how cytokines of the tumor milieu, interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-4, interact to influence target gene expression in prim...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Gupta S,Jain A,Syed SN,Snodgrass RG,Pflüger-Müller B,Leisegang MS,Weigert A,Brandes RP,Ebersberger I,Brüne B,Namgaladze D

更新日期：2018-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune system avoids oncogenesis and slows down tumor progression through a mechanism called immunosurveillance. Nevertheless, some malignant cells manage to escape from immune control and form clinically detectable tumors. Tetraploidy, which consists in the intrinsically unstable duplication of the genome, is con...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Aranda F,Chaba K,Bloy N,Garcia P,Bordenave C,Martins I,Stoll G,Tesniere A,Kroemer G,Senovilla L

更新日期：2018-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesothelioma is an incurable cancer for which effective therapies are required. Aberrant MET expression is prevalent in mesothelioma, although targeting using small molecule-based therapeutics has proven disappointing. Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) couple the HLA-independent binding of a cell surface target to the...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Thayaparan T,Petrovic RM,Achkova DY,Zabinski T,Davies DM,Klampatsa A,Parente-Pereira AC,Whilding LM,van der Stegen SJ,Woodman N,Sheaff M,Cochran JR,Spicer JF,Maher J

更新日期：2017-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal insufficiency is a frequent cancer-associated problem affecting more than half of all cancer patients at the time of diagnosis. To minimize nephrotoxic effects the dosage of anticancer drugs are reduced in these patients, leading to sub-optimal treatment efficacy. Despite the severity of this cancer-associated p...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Cedervall J,Dragomir A,Saupe F,Zhang Y,Ärnlöv J,Larsson E,Dimberg A,Larsson A,Olsson AK

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunostimulatory monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) exert antineoplastic effects by eliciting a novel or reinstating a pre-existing antitumor immune response. Most often, immunostimulatory mAbs activate T lymphocytes or natural killer (NK) cells by inhibiting immunosuppressive receptors, such as cytotoxic T lymphocyte-asso...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Aranda F,Vacchelli E,Eggermont A,Galon J,Fridman WH,Zitvogel L,Kroemer G,Galluzzi L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune contexture, a composition of the tumor microenvironment, plays multiple important roles in cancer stem cell (CSC) and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), and hence critically influences tumor initiation, progression and patient outcome. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are abundant in immune context...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Li S,Xu F,Zhang J,Wang L,Zheng Y,Wu X,Wang J,Huang Q,Lai M

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of immune checkpoint blockade as a new strategy for immunotherapy has changed the outlook for many aggressive cancers. Although complete tumor eradication is attainable in some cases, durable clinical responses are observed only in a small fraction of patients, underlining urgent need for improvement. We pr...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Ekiz HA,Lai SA,Gundlapalli H,Haroun F,Williams MA,Welm AL

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated/microsatellite-unstable (MSI) gastric carcinomas (GC) constitute immune-active principal cellular components of tumor microenvironment and contribute to better prognosis. With the remarkable success of cancer immunotherapies, there is an urgen...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Park C,Cho J,Lee J,Kang SY,An JY,Choi MG,Lee JH,Sohn TS,Bae JM,Kim S,Kim ST,Park SH,Park JO,Kang WK,Sohn I,Jung SH,Kang MS,Kim KM

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-year survival rates for patients diagnosed with metastatic melanoma are less than 5%. Adoptive cell transfer (ACT) has achieved an objective response of 50% by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) in this patient population. For ACT to be maximally effective, the host must first be lymphodepleted...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Wilson KA,Goding SR,Neely HR,Harris KM,Antony PA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncolytic virotherapy is an emergent promising therapeutic approach for the treatment of cancer. We have constructed a vaccinia virus (WR strain) deleted for thymidine kinase (TK) and ribonucleotide reductase (RR) genes that expressed the fusion suicide gene FCU1 derived from the yeast cytosine deaminase and uracil ph...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Fend L,Remy-Ziller C,Foloppe J,Kempf J,Cochin S,Barraud L,Accart N,Erbs P,Fournel S,Préville X

更新日期：2015-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:RIG-I-like helicases (RLH) are cytosolic sensors for viral RNA inducing type I interferon production. We found that pancreatic cancer cells express functional RLH and are susceptible to RLH-induced apoptosis via intrinsic and extrinsic pathways. Tumor cells displayed features of immunogenic cell death resulting in den...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Schnurr M,Duewell P

更新日期：2014-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T cell (Treg) promote IL-17-mediated colon tumorigenesis in multiple intestinal neoplasia (Min) mice colonized with enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF). Although they retain their immunosuppressive function, mucosal Treg are instrumental to initiate ETBF-triggered IL-17 colitis by limiting the avail...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Geis AL,Housseau F

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic breast cancer remains an incurable disease. Most patients experience objective treatment responses associated with palliation of symptoms; however, progression inevitably occurs. Thus, there is an urgent need for innovative therapeutic strategies that may halt disease progression. Adoptive T-cell therapy is...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Thakur A,Lum LG

更新日期：2015-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The benefits of anti-cancer agents extend beyond direct tumor killing. One aspect of cell death is the potential to release antigens that initiate adaptive immune responses. Here, a diffusion enhanced formulation, INT230-6, containing potent anti-cancer cytotoxic agents, was administered intratumorally into large (app...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Bloom AC,Bender LH,Tiwary S,Pasquet L,Clark K,Jiang T,Xia Z,Morales-Kastresana A,Jones JC,Walters I,Terabe M,Berzofsky JA

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The elicitation of efficient antitumor immune responses requires the optimal activation of tumor-associated dendritic cells (DCs). Our comparison of the effect of various immunostimulatory treatments on DCs revealed that the best predictor of the success of immunotherapy is not the activation of existing DC population...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Kuhn S,Ronchese F

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging entails the accumulation of neoantigens comprised of aggregated, oxidized, mutated and misfolded biomolecules, including advanced-glycation end projects (AGEs). There is evidence that the immune system can recognize and clear cells fouled by these molecular debris, which contribute to the emergence of cancer and...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Prendergast GC,Metz R

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) is a cellular DNA-receptor of the innate immune system that is widely expressed in cancers. We demonstrated that low tumor TLR9 expression predicts poor disease-specific survival in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) and renal cell carcinoma (RCC). We hypothesized that this is because TLR...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Mella M,Kauppila JH,Karihtala P,Lehenkari P,Jukkola-Vuorinen A,Soini Y,Auvinen P,Vaarala MH,Ronkainen H,Kauppila S,Haapasaari KM,Vuopala KS,Selander KS

更新日期：2015-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In many cancers, regulatory T cells (Treg) play a crucial role in suppressing the effector immune response thereby permitting tumor development. Indeed, in mouse models, their depletion can promote the regression of tumors of various origins, including renal cell carcinoma when located subcutaneous (SC). In the presen...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Devaud C,Westwood JA,Teng MW,John LB,Yong CS,Duong CP,Smyth MJ,Darcy PK,Kershaw MH

更新日期：2014-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the tolerability and antitumor activity of solitomab, a bispecific T-cell engager (BiTE®) antibody construct targeting epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM). Patients with relapsed/refractory solid tumors not amenable to standard therapy received solitomab as continuous IV infusion in a phase 1 dose-es...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Kebenko M,Goebeler ME,Wolf M,Hasenburg A,Seggewiss-Bernhardt R,Ritter B,Rautenberg B,Atanackovic D,Kratzer A,Rottman JB,Friedrich M,Vieser E,Elm S,Patzak I,Wessiepe D,Stienen S,Fiedler W

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I interferon (IFN) release by irradiated cancer cells is paramount for radiation therapy to elicit anticancer immunity. Our findings demonstrate that mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP) triggered by RT enables exposure of mitochondrial DNA to the cytosol, hence setting off CGAS-driven type I IFN ...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Yamazaki T,Galluzzi L

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses have been elicited by a variety of cancer vaccines, but seldom induce regressions of established cancers in humans. As a novel therapeutic immunization strategy, we tested the hypothesis that multiple cytokines/chemokines secreted early in secondary responses ex-vivo might mimic the secretory environm...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Valentine FT,Golomb FM,Harris M,Roses DF

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective:Ovarian cancer (OC) is often diagnosed at an advanced stage with two thirds of patients experiencing recurrent disease with a poor prognosis. Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) has shown curative potential in malignant melanoma, but has only been investigated scarcely in ot...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Pedersen M,Westergaard MCW,Milne K,Nielsen M,Borch TH,Poulsen LG,Hendel HW,Kennedy M,Briggs G,Ledoux S,Nøttrup TJ,Andersen P,Hasselager T,Met Ö,Nelson BH,Donia M,Svane IM

更新日期：2018-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistence of leukemic stem cells (LSCs) in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients receiving chemotherapy may be responsible for the high frequency of relapse. The selective elimination of CD96+ AML-LSCs by means of CD96-specific monoclonal antibodies may be a promising therapeutic approach and revitalize autologo...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Staudinger M,Humpe A,Gramatzki M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare skin cancer caused by Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) infection and/or ultraviolet radiation-induced somatic mutations. The presence of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes is evidence that an active immune response to MCPyV and tumor-associated neoantigens occurs in some patients. How...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Schadendorf D,Nghiem P,Bhatia S,Hauschild A,Saiag P,Mahnke L,Hariharan S,Kaufman HL

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is characterized by broad genomic and transcriptional heterogeneity and results in a worse prognosis than other breast cancer types. Here, we integrated genomic and transcriptomic data combined with clinicopathologic information from 538 patients with TNBC and identified four novel...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Chen H,Chong W,Yang X,Zhang Y,Sang S,Li X,Lu M

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00