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Resistance Mechanisms to Anti-PD Cancer Immunotherapy
Vesely MD, Zhang T, Chen L. Resistance Mechanisms to Anti-PD Cancer Immunotherapy. Annual Review Of Immunology 2022, 40: 45-74. PMID: 35471840, DOI: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-070621-030155.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsAnti-PD therapyCancer immunotherapyMechanisms of resistanceImmune inhibitory moleculesFraction of patientsResistance mechanismsNormalization cancer immunotherapyAdditional immunotherapyPD-1Clinical evidenceAntigen presentationT cellsSolid tumorsTherapy resistanceH1 pathwayTumor microenvironmentImmunotherapyInhibitory moleculesHematopoietic malignanciesCancer treatmentTherapyPatientsCurrent studyCancer dataMalignancyCancer Immunoediting in the Era of Immuno-oncology.
Gubin MM, Vesely MD. Cancer Immunoediting in the Era of Immuno-oncology. Clinical Cancer Research 2022, 28: 3917-3928. PMID: 35594163, PMCID: PMC9481657, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-21-1804.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsCancer immunoeditingImmune-tumor cell interactionsCancer immunotherapyAbsence of immunotherapyDurable clinical responsesT cell biologyCell interactionsImmunotherapy resistanceClinical responseImmunosuppressive microenvironmentTumor immunogenicityImmuno-oncologyClinical dataPreclinical modelsImmunoeditingImmunotherapyHuman patientsImmune systemTumor microenvironmentCancerCancer progressionClinical subspecialtyImmunogenicityMicroenvironmentPatientsNormalization Cancer Immunotherapy for Melanoma
Vesely MD, Chen L. Normalization Cancer Immunotherapy for Melanoma. Journal Of Investigative Dermatology 2020, 140: 1134-1142. PMID: 32092349, PMCID: PMC7247948, DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2020.02.005.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsNormalization cancer immunotherapyCancer immunotherapyImmune responseDysfunctional immune responseSystemic immune responsesContext of melanomaPatient survivalTreatment of cancerTumor responseImmunotherapyToxicity profileImmune systemTumor microenvironmentMelanomaCancerDistinct mechanismsResponseCliniciansCheckpoint blockade cancer immunotherapy targets tumour-specific mutant antigens
Gubin MM, Zhang X, Schuster H, Caron E, Ward JP, Noguchi T, Ivanova Y, Hundal J, Arthur CD, Krebber WJ, Mulder GE, Toebes M, Vesely MD, Lam SS, Korman AJ, Allison JP, Freeman GJ, Sharpe AH, Pearce EL, Schumacher TN, Aebersold R, Rammensee HG, Melief CJ, Mardis ER, Gillanders WE, Artyomov MN, Schreiber RD. Checkpoint blockade cancer immunotherapy targets tumour-specific mutant antigens. Nature 2014, 515: 577-581. PMID: 25428507, PMCID: PMC4279952, DOI: 10.1038/nature13988.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNatural Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Cancer
Vesely MD, Kershaw MH, Schreiber RD, Smyth MJ. Natural Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Cancer. Annual Review Of Immunology 2011, 29: 235-271. PMID: 21219185, DOI: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-031210-101324.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsImmune systemAdaptive immune cell typesImmune cell typesTumor-promoting actionsHuman clinical dataNascent tumor cellsCancer immunosurveillanceClinical dataAdaptive immunityMouse modelTumor progressionCancerTumor cellsTumor suppressor mechanismImmunityEffector moleculesFurther studiesCell typesCompelling evidenceImportant defenseImmunotherapyImmunosurveillanceInnateProgression
2024
Up-regulated PLA2G10 in cancer impairs T cell infiltration to dampen immunity
Zhang T, Yu W, Cheng X, Yeung J, Ahumada V, Norris P, Pearson M, Yang X, van Deursen W, Halcovich C, Nassar A, Vesely M, Zhang Y, Zhang J, Ji L, Flies D, Liu L, Langermann S, LaRochelle W, Humphrey R, Zhao D, Zhang Q, Zhang J, Gu R, Schalper K, Sanmamed M, Chen L. Up-regulated PLA2G10 in cancer impairs T cell infiltration to dampen immunity. Science Immunology 2024, 9: eadh2334. PMID: 38669316, DOI: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adh2334.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsT cell infiltrationT cell exclusionT cellsResistance to anti-PD-1 immunotherapyPoor T-cell infiltrationAnti-PD-1 immunotherapyImmunogenic mouse tumorsT cell mobilizationHuman cancer tissuesTherapeutic immunotherapyCancer immunotherapyMouse tumorsChemokine systemImmunotherapyTumor tissuesImpaired infiltrationTumorLipid metabolitesHuman cancersCancer tissuesInfiltrationA2 groupCancerPLA2G10Up-regulated