Inhibition of RON kinase potentiates anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapy to shrink breast tumors and prevent metastatic outgrowth.

abstract：:To antagonize tumor-derived TGFβ contemporaneously to anticancer immunotherapy, we genetically engineered a fusion protein coupling IL-2 and the ectodomain of TGFβ receptor II (Fusion of Interleukin-2 and Soluble TGFβ receptor - a.k.a. FIST). FIST possesses intriguing gain-of-function properties and induces potent act...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Penafuerte C,Galipeau J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK)-cell count is predictive of chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL) disease progression and their dysfunction is well documented, but the etiology of this is currently lacking. CLL cells have been shown to over-express HLA-E, the natural ligand for NKG2A expressed on NK-cells that generates a distinct nega...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： McWilliams EM,Mele JM,Cheney C,Timmerman EA,Fiazuddin F,Strattan EJ,Mo X,Byrd JC,Muthusamy N,Awan FT

更新日期：2016-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses to tumor antigens have been reported in cancer patients. However, the relevance of such spontaneous immune responses to the clinical course has not been studied extensively. We showed that the overall survival of patients with antibodies against NY-ESO-1 or XAGE1 (GAGED2a) antigen was prolonged in gas...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Ohue Y,Wada H,Oka M,Nakayama E

更新日期：2014-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：: Background : Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) is a terminal evolution from primary colorectal cancer (pCRC) associated with poor patient survival. Impact of the immune cell infiltrate on PC pathogenesis is unknown. Therefore, we characterized the immunological tumor microenv...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Seebauer CT,Brunner S,Glockzin G,Piso P,Ruemmele P,Schlitt HJ,Geissler EK,Fichtner-Feigl S,Kesselring R

更新日期：2016-10-14 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：:Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) immune checkpoint inhibitors have shown activity in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). However, the role of PD-1 expression in tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) as a biomarker for poor outcome is not clear. In this study, we evaluated the prognostic value of T...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Kim KS,Sekar RR,Patil D,Dimarco MA,Kissick HT,Bilen MA,Osunkoya AO,Master VA

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently described two types of Langerhans cells (LCs), which develop via separate pathways in steady-state conditions and during inflammation. Here, we propose that these two types of LCs differ in their requirement for transforming growth factor β1 (TGFβ1), and we discuss how TGFβ1 impacts on the development...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Seré K,Felker P,Hieronymus T,Zenke M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients, the intratumoral expression of Toll-like receptor-3 (TLR3) correlates with prolonged survival. We demonstrated that TLR3 ligands can operate through three independent mechanisms: by directly killing TLR3-expressing cancer cells, by inducing T- and natural killer (NK)-cell in...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Chew V,Abastado JP

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The B7 family and tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) superfamily play a vital role in the T-cell co-stimulatory and co-inhibitory pathways, regulating T-cell activation, tolerance, and exhaustion; therapeutic modulation of these pathways is translated into effective new cancer treatments. Better understanding of th...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Chen YP,Zhang J,Wang YQ,Liu N,He QM,Yang XJ,Sun Y,Ma J

更新日期：2017-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkylating chemotherapy exerts both antineoplastic and immunostimulatory effects. However, in addition to depleting regulatory T cells (Treg), alkylating agents also mediate a long lasting antiproliferative effect on responder lymphocytes. Our recent findings indicate that this antiproliferative effect profoundly impa...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Litterman AJ,Dudek AZ,Largaespada DA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells influence antitumor responses indirectly by secreting cytokines and promoting the cytolytic functions of T and NK cells, we find that iNKT cells mediate direct tumoricidal activity in vitro and significantly inhibit tumor growth in vivo, even in the absence of other cyt...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Bassiri H,Das R,Nichols KE

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one of the most important etiologic causes of oropharyngeal head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Patients with HPV-positive HNSCC were reported to have a better clinical outcome than patients with HPV-negative cancers. However, little is known about the possible causes...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Partlová S,Bouček J,Kloudová K,Lukešová E,Zábrodský M,Grega M,Fučíková J,Truxová I,Tachezy R,Špíšek R,Fialová A

更新日期：2015-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Both genetic and environmental factors are thought to be causal in gliomagenesis. Several genes have been implicated in glioma development, but the putative role of a major immunity-related gene complex member, immunoglobulin heavy chain γ (IGHG) has not been evaluated. Prior observations that IGHG-encoded γ marker (G...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Pandey JP,Kaur N,Costa S,Amorim J,Nabico R,Linhares P,Vaz R,Viana-Pereira M,Reis RM

更新日期：2014-05-23 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：:The efficacy of antitumoral responses can be increased using combinatorial vaccine strategies. We recently showed that vaccination could be optimized by local administration of diverse molecular or bacterial agents to target and augment antitumoral CD8 T cells in the genital mucosa (GM) and increase regression of cerv...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Domingos-Pereira S,Hojeij R,Reggi E,Derré L,Chevalier MF,Romero P,Jichlinski P,Nardelli-Haefliger D

更新日期：2015-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA vaccines are potential tools for the induction of immune responses against both infectious disease and cancer. The dermal application of DNA vaccines is of particular interest since the epidermal and dermal layers of the skin are characterized by an abundance of antigen-presenting cells (APCs). The aim of our stud...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Nguyen-Hoai T,Kobelt D,Hohn O,Vu MD,Schlag PM,Dörken B,Norley S,Lipp M,Walther W,Pezzutto A,Westermann J

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three recent publications identified the TNF/TNR2 pathway as a new target to reduce graft-versus-host-disease through regulatory T cells activation or to potentially switch on a strong anti-leukemic effect through regulatory T cells blockade in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. This identified the TN...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Cohen JL,Wood KJ

更新日期：2017-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrantly glycosylated tumor antigens represent promising targets for the development of anti-cancer vaccines, yet how glycans influence immune responses is poorly understood. Recent studies have demonstrated that GalNAc-glycosylation enhances antigen uptake by dendritic cells as well as CD4+ T-cell and humoral respo...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Madsen CB,Pedersen AE,Wandall HH

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of a tumor cell to metastasize profoundly depends on its microenvironment, or "niche" interactions with local components. Tumor-associated-macrophages (TAMs) are the most abundant subpopulation of tumor stroma and represent a key component of tumor microenvironment. The dynamic interaction of cancer cell...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Baghel KS,Tewari BN,Shrivastava R,Malik SA,Lone MU,Jain NK,Tripathi C,Kanchan RK,Dixit S,Singh K,Mitra K,Negi MP,Srivastava M,Misra S,Bhatt ML,Bhadauria S

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Removing less potent T cell subsets as well as poorly- or non-engineered cells can optimize effectiveness of engineered T cell therapy against cancer. We have recently described a novel, GMP-ready method for the purification of engineered immune cells that might further boost the clinical success of cancer immunothera...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Kierkels GJ,Straetemans T,de Witte MA,Kuball J

更新日期：2015-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful cancer immunotherapy is thought to require de novo priming of tumor specific CD8(+) T cells in lymphatic organs. Contrasting these beliefs, cancer therapy based on interleukin-10 (IL-10) results in tumor rejection without a requirement for T-cell trafficking from lymphatic organs. Rather, IL-10 directly act...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Emmerich J,Mumm JB,Oft M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have made major advances in the treatment of melanoma through the use of targeted therapy and immune checkpoint blockade; however, clinicians are posed with therapeutic dilemmas regarding timing and sequence of therapy. There is a growing appreciation of the impact of antitumor immune responses to these therapies, ...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Cooper ZA,Reuben A,Spencer CN,Prieto PA,Austin-Breneman JL,Jiang H,Haymaker C,Gopalakrishnan V,Tetzlaff MT,Frederick DT,Sullivan RJ,Amaria RN,Patel SP,Hwu P,Woodman SE,Glitza IC,Diab A,Vence LM,Rodriguez-Canales J,P

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

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：: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：:The alarmin IL-33 is an IL-1 family member that stimulates pleiotropic immune reactions depending on the target tissue and microenvironmental factors. In this study, we have investigated the role of IL-33/ST2 axis in antitumor response to melanoma. Injection of IL-33 in mice-bearing subcutaneous B16.F10 melanoma resul...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Lucarini V,Ziccheddu G,Macchia I,La Sorsa V,Peschiaroli F,Buccione C,Sistigu A,Sanchez M,Andreone S,D'Urso MT,Spada M,Macchia D,Afferni C,Mattei F,Schiavoni G

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung-specific overexpression of prostacyclin synthase (PGIS) decreases tumor initiation in murine lung cancer models. Prostacyclin analogs prevent lung tumor formation in mice and reverse bronchial dysplasia in former smokers. However, the effect of prostacyclin on lung cancer progression has not been well studied. We...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Li HY,McSharry M,Walker D,Johnson A,Kwak J,Bullock B,Neuwelt A,Poczobutt JM,Sippel TR,Keith RL,Weiser-Evans MCM,Clambey E,Nemenoff RA

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional status of CD4(+) T cells is a critical determinant of antitumor immunity. Polyfunctional CD4(+) T cells possess the ability to concomitantly produce multiple Th1-type cytokines, exhibiting a functional attribute desirable for cancer immunotherapy. However, the mechanisms by which these cells are induced...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Ding ZC,Liu C,Cao Y,Habtetsion T,Kuczma M,Pi W,Kong H,Cacan E,Greer SF,Cui Y,Blazar BR,Munn DH,Zhou G

更新日期：2016-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient immunotherapy relies on the rapid generation of elevated amounts of cancer-specific T lymphocytes. We have recently demonstrated that both rapid and potent tumor-targeting immune responses can be induced with a heterologous prime-boost regimen consisting of poly-lactic co-glycolic acid (PLGA) microsphere-bas...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Brinkhoff B,Wirth TC

更新日期：2014-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the opposite roles of Tbet and Foxp3 in the immune system as well as in tumour biology, recent studies have demonstrated the presence of of CD4+ T cells, expressing both, Tbet and Foxp3. Although Tbet+Foxp3+ T cells are currently a subject of intense research, less is known about their biological function espe...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Kachler K,Holzinger C,Trufa DI,Sirbu H,Finotto S

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that melanoma-derived factors alter the function of differentiated tissue-resident dendritic cells (DC) in a tumorigenicity-dependent manner. Soluble factors, including TGFβ1 and VEGF-A, contributed to dendritic cell dysfunction associated with a highly-aggressive melanoma and conferred a phenotype upon ...

journal_title：Oncoimmunology

authors： Hargadon KM

更新日期：2015-08-12 00:00:00