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Item Type Journal Article
Title New insights into the role of EMT in tumor immune escape
Creator Terry et al.
Author Stéphane Terry
Author Pierre Savagner
Author Sandra Ortiz-Cuaran
Author Linda Mahjoubi
Author Pierre Saintigny
Author Jean-Paul Thiery
Author Salem Chouaib
Abstract Novel immunotherapy approaches have provided durable remission in a significant number of cancer patients with cancers previously considered rapidly lethal. Nonetheless, the high degree of nonresponders, and in some cases the emergence of resistance in patients who do initially respond, represents a significant challenge in the field of cancer immunotherapy. These issues prompt much more extensive studies to better understand how cancer cells escape immune surveillance and resist immune attacks. Here, we review the current knowledge of how cellular heterogeneity and plasticity could be involved in shaping the tumor microenvironment (TME) and in controlling antitumor immunity. Indeed, recent findings have led to increased interest in the mechanisms by which cancer cells undergoing epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), or oscillating within the EMT spectrum, might contribute to immune escape through multiple routes. This includes shaping of the TME and decreased susceptibility to immune effector cells. Although much remains to be learned on the mechanisms at play, cancer cell clones with mesenchymal features emerging from the TME seem to be primed to face immune attacks by specialized killer cells of the immune system, the natural killer cells, and the cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Recent studies investigating patient tumors have suggested EMT as a candidate predictive marker to be explored for immunotherapy outcome. Promising data also exist on the potential utility of targeting these cancer cell populations to at least partly overcome such resistance. Research is now underway which may lead to considerable progress in optimization of treatments.
Publication Molecular Oncology
Volume 11
Issue 7
Pages 824-846
Date 07 2017
Journal Abbr Mol Oncol
Language eng
DOI 10.1002/1878-0261.12093
ISSN 1878-0261
Library Catalog PubMed
Extra PMID: 28614624 PMCID: PMC5496499
Tags Animals, antitumor immunity, EMT, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition, Humans, immune escape, Neoplasms, review, Tumor Escape, Tumor Microenvironment
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Date Modified 2019/05/31 - 16:06:10
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