
OLD Category: signatures
May 18, 2023 / Cancer Med
High expression of STAT3 within the tumour-associated stroma predicts poor outcome in breast cancer patients
INTRODUCTION: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients have the poorest clinical outcomes compared to other molecular subtypes of breast cancer. IL6/JAK/STAT3 signalling is upregulated in breast cancer; however, there is limited…
May 18, 2023 / Aging (Albany NY)
Senescence and senotherapies in biliary atresia and biliary cirrhosis
Background: Premature senescence occurs in adult hepatobiliary diseases and worsens the prognosis through deleterious liver remodeling and hepatic dysfunction. Senescence might also arises in biliary atresia (BA), the first cause…
May 17, 2023 / Methods Mol Biol
High-Plex Spatial Profiling of RNA and Protein Using Digital Spatial Profiler
The rapid emergence of spatial multi-omics technologies in recent years has revolutionized biomedical research. Among these, the Digital Spatial Profiler (DSP, commercialized by nanoString) has become one of the dominant…
May 12, 2023 / J Mol Med (Berl)
Increased Fusobacterium tumoural abundance affects immunogenicity in mucinous colorectal cancer and may be associated with improved clinical outcome
There is currently an urgent need to identify factors predictive of immunogenicity in colorectal cancer (CRC). Mucinous CRC is a distinct histological subtype of CRC, associated with a poor response…
May 12, 2023 / J Immunother Cancer
Neoadjuvant intratumoral influenza vaccine treatment in patients with proficient mismatch repair colorectal cancer leads to increased tumor infiltration of CD8+ T cells and upregulation of PD-L1: a phase 1/2 clinical trial
Background In colorectal cancer, the effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors are mostly limited to patients with deficient mismatch repair tumors, characterized by a high grade infiltration of CD8+T cells. Interventions aimed…
May 9, 2023 / Cell Death Dis
Canonical and truncated transglutaminase-2 regulate mucin-1 expression and androgen independency in prostate cancer cell lines
Androgen independency is associated with poor prostate cancer (PCa) survival. Here we report that silencing of transglutaminase-2 (TG2) expression by CRISPR-Cas9 is associated with upregulation of androgen receptor (AR) transcription…
May 9, 2023 / Am J Pathol
Immune-related gene expression profile at peri-tumoral tonsillar tissue is modified by oropharyngeal cancer nodal status
Secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs), such as lymph nodes and tonsils, serve as an interface between the immune system and tumor cells as an initial antigen presentation site, critical in anti-tumor…
May 1, 2023 / Nat Cancer
The immunopeptidome landscape associated with T cell infiltration, inflammation and immune editing in lung cancer
One key barrier to improving efficacy of personalized cancer immunotherapies that are dependent on the tumor antigenic landscape remains patient stratification. Although patients with CD3+CD8+ T cell-inflamed tumors typically show…
April 27, 2023 / Nat Commun
Expression-based subtypes define pathologic response to neoadjuvant immune-checkpoint inhibitors in muscle-invasive bladder cancer
Checkpoint immunotherapy (CPI) has increased survival for some patients with advanced-stage bladder cancer (BCa). However, most patients do not respond. Here, we characterized the tumor and immune microenvironment in pre-…
April 27, 2023 / Cancer Res Commun
Ultra High-Plex Spatial Proteogenomic Investigation of Giant Cell Glioblastoma Multiforme Immune Infiltrates Reveals Distinct Protein and RNA Expression Profiles
A deeper understanding of complex biological processes, including tumor development and immune response, requires ultra high-plex, spatial interrogation of multiple “omes”. Here we present the development and implementation of a…
April 27, 2023 / OncoImmunology
Phenotypic characterization of spatial immune infiltration niches in non-small cell lung cancer
The immune microenvironment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is heterogeneous, which impedes the prediction of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors. We have mapped the expression of 49 proteins to…
April 26, 2023 / J Pathol
Receptor for Hyaluronan-Mediated Motility (RHAMM) defines an invasive niche associated with tumor progression and predicts poor outcomes in breast cancer patients
Breast cancer invasion and metastasis result from a complex interplay between tumor cells and the tumor microenvironment (TME). Key oncogenic changes in the TME include aberrant synthesis, processing and signaling…