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Tian Y, Bai F, Zhang D. New target DDR1: A "double-edged sword" in solid tumors. Biochim Biophys Acta Rev Cancer 2023; 1878:188829. [PMID: 36356724 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2022.188829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2022] [Revised: 10/16/2022] [Accepted: 10/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Globally, cancer is a major catastrophic disease that seriously threatens human health. Thus, there is an urgent need to find new strategies to treat cancer. Among them, identifying new targets is one of the best ways to treat cancer at present. Especially in recent years, scientists have discovered many new targets and made breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer, bringing new hope to cancer patients. As one of the novel targets for cancer treatment, DDR1 has attracted much attention due to its unique role in cancer. Hence, here, we focus on a new target, DDR1, which may be a "double-edged sword" of human solid tumors. In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of how DDR1 acts as a "double-edged sword" in cancer. First, we briefly introduce the structure and normal physiological function of DDR1; Second, we delineate the DDR1 expression pattern in single cells; Next, we sorte out the relationship between DDR1 and cancer, including the abnormal expression of DDR1 in cancer, the mechanism of DDR1 and cancer occurrence, and the value of DDR1 on cancer prognosis. In addition, we introduced the current status of global drug and antibody research and development targeting DDR1 and its future design prospects; Finally, we summarize and look forward to designing more DDR1-targeting drugs in the future to make further progress in the treatment of solid tumors.
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- Yonggang Tian
- Department of Gastroenterology, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China
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- The Gastroenterology Clinical Medical Center of Hainan Province, Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China.
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China.
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Nguyen A, Kumar S, Kulkarni AA. Nanotheranostic Strategies for Cancer Immunotherapy. SMALL METHODS 2022; 6:e2200718. [PMID: 36382571 PMCID: PMC11056828 DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202200718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 09/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
Despite advancements in cancer immunotherapy, heterogeneity in tumor response impose barriers to successful treatments and accurate prognosis. Effective therapy and early outcome detection are critical as toxicity profiles following immunotherapies can severely affect patients' quality of life. Existing imaging techniques, including positron emission tomography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or multiplexed imaging, are often used in clinics yet suffer from limitations in the early assessment of immune response. Conventional strategies to validate immune response mainly rely on the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) and the modified iRECIST for immuno-oncology drug trials. However, accurate monitoring of immunotherapy efficacy is challenging since the response does not always follow conventional RECIST criteria due to delayed and variable kinetics in immunotherapy responses. Engineered nanomaterials for immunotherapy applications have significantly contributed to overcoming these challenges by improving drug delivery and dynamic imaging techniques. This review summarizes challenges in recent immune-modulation approaches and traditional imaging tools, followed by emerging developments in three-in-one nanoimmunotheranostic systems co-opting nanotechnology, immunotherapy, and imaging. In addition, a comprehensive overview of imaging modalities in recent cancer immunotherapy research and a brief outlook on how nanotheranostic platforms can potentially advance to clinical translations for the field of immuno-oncology is presented.
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- Anh Nguyen
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
- Center for Bioactive Delivery, Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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De Bousser E, Callewaert N, Festjens N. T Cell Engaging Immunotherapies, Highlighting Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cell Therapy. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:6067. [PMID: 34885176 PMCID: PMC8657024 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13236067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Revised: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
In the past decade, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell technology has revolutionized cancer immunotherapy. This strategy uses synthetic CARs to redirect the patient's own immune cells to recognize specific antigens expressed on the surface of tumor cells. The unprecedented success of anti-CD19 CAR T cell therapy against B cell malignancies has resulted in its approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2017. However, major scientific challenges still remain to be addressed for the broad use of CAR T cell therapy. These include severe toxicities, limited efficacy against solid tumors, and immune suppression in the hostile tumor microenvironment. Furthermore, CAR T cell therapy is a personalized medicine of which the production is time- and resource-intensive, which makes it very expensive. All these factors drive new innovations to engineer more powerful CAR T cells with improved antitumor activity, which are reviewed in this manuscript.
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- Elien De Bousser
- Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB)—UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, Technologiepark—Zwijnaarde 75, 9052 Ghent, Belgium;
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Technologiepark—Zwijnaarde 75, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB)—UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, Technologiepark—Zwijnaarde 75, 9052 Ghent, Belgium;
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Technologiepark—Zwijnaarde 75, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB)—UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, Technologiepark—Zwijnaarde 75, 9052 Ghent, Belgium;
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Technologiepark—Zwijnaarde 75, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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Al-Juhaishi T, Ahmed S. CAR-T in B-Cell Lymphomas: The Past, Present, and Future. CLINICAL LYMPHOMA MYELOMA & LEUKEMIA 2021; 22:e261-e268. [PMID: 34782260 DOI: 10.1016/j.clml.2021.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Revised: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 10/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Aggressive B-cell lymphomas including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma make up the majority of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma globally. While more than half of these patients can be cured with modern chemoimmunotherapy regimens, the outcomes of relapsed or refractory disease continue to be very poor. Despite significant developments in targeted cancer therapies and immuno-oncology, the attainability of a cure remained an elusive goal outside of incorporating high doses of chemotherapy followed by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, for patients who have chemosensitive disease. The development of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy changed that paradigm and introduced a new field of therapeutic possibilities for these patients. In this review, we will discuss the current state of this therapeutic modality in B-cell lymphomas and provide opinions on where future efforts need to focus in order to further improve their clinical utility.
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- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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Shao L, Xu C, Wu H, Jamal M, Pan S, Li S, Chen F, Yu D, Liu K, Wei Y. Recent Progress on Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma-From Bench to Bedside. Front Oncol 2021; 11:689843. [PMID: 34485125 PMCID: PMC8416460 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.689843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is a rare subtype of extra-nodal lymphoma. The high relapse rate of PCNSL remains a major challenge to the hematologists, even though patients exhibit high sensitivity to the methotrexate-based chemotherapeutic regimens. Recently, the advent of Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor (BTKi) and CAR T treatment has made more treatment options available to a proportion of patients. However, whether BTKi monotherapy should be given alone or in combination with conventional chemotherapy is still a clinical question. The status of CAR T therapy for PCNSLs also needs to be elucidated. In this review, we summarized the latest progress on the epidemiology, pathology, clinical manifestation, diagnosis, and treatment options for PCNSLs.
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- Liang Shao
- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Lymphoma Medicine, Hubei Cancer Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- School of Medicine, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Lymphoma Medicine, Hubei Cancer Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Hernández-López A, Téllez-González MA, Mondragón-Terán P, Meneses-Acosta A. Chimeric Antigen Receptor-T Cells: A Pharmaceutical Scope. Front Pharmacol 2021; 12:720692. [PMID: 34489708 PMCID: PMC8417740 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2021.720692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. Therefore, improving cancer therapeutic strategies using novel alternatives is a top priority on the contemporary scientific agenda. An example of such strategies is immunotherapy, which is based on teaching the immune system to recognize, attack, and kill malignant cancer cells. Several types of immunotherapies are currently used to treat cancer, including adoptive cell therapy (ACT). Chimeric Antigen Receptors therapy (CAR therapy) is a kind of ATC where autologous T cells are genetically engineered to express CARs (CAR-T cells) to specifically kill the tumor cells. CAR-T cell therapy is an opportunity to treat patients that have not responded to other first-line cancer treatments. Nowadays, this type of therapy still has many challenges to overcome to be considered as a first-line clinical treatment. This emerging technology is still classified as an advanced therapy from the pharmaceutical point of view, hence, for it to be applied it must firstly meet certain requirements demanded by the authority. For this reason, the aim of this review is to present a global vision of different immunotherapies and focus on CAR-T cell technology analyzing its elements, its history, and its challenges. Furthermore, analyzing the opportunity areas for CAR-T technology to become an affordable treatment modality taking the basic, clinical, and practical aspects into consideration.
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- Alejandrina Hernández-López
- Laboratorio 7 Biotecnología Farmacéutica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Autónoma Del Estado de Morelos, UAEM, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Laboratorio 7 Biotecnología Farmacéutica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Autónoma Del Estado de Morelos, UAEM, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- Coordinación de Investigación, Centro Médico Nacional “20 de Noviembre” ISSSTE, Mexico city, Mexico
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- Coordinación de Investigación, Centro Médico Nacional “20 de Noviembre” ISSSTE, Mexico city, Mexico
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- Laboratorio 7 Biotecnología Farmacéutica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Autónoma Del Estado de Morelos, UAEM, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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