Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28600
Anne K Barasa, Peng Ye, Meredith Phelps, Ganapathiram T Arivudainambi, Timelia Tison, Javier Gordon Ogembo
{"title":"Correction: BALB/c mice immunized with a combination of virus-like particles incorporating Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) envelope glycoproteins gpK8.1, gB, and gH/gL induced comparable serum neutralizing antibody activity to UV-inactivated KSHV.","authors":"Anne K Barasa, Peng Ye, Meredith Phelps, Ganapathiram T Arivudainambi, Timelia Tison, Javier Gordon Ogembo","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28600","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28600","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"15 ","pages":"439-440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11218793/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141492896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28603
Hirotaka Matsui
{"title":"DDX41 and its unique contribution to myeloid leukemogenesis.","authors":"Hirotaka Matsui","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28603","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28603","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"15 ","pages":"442-443"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11218790/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141492898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28556
Dae Won Kim, Francisca Beato, Youngchul Kim, Alexandra F Tassielli, Ruifan Dai, Jason W Denbo, Pamela J Hodul, Mokenge P Malafa, Jason B Fleming
{"title":"Correction: Real time <i>ex vivo</i> chemosensitivity assay for pancreatic adenocarcinoma.","authors":"Dae Won Kim, Francisca Beato, Youngchul Kim, Alexandra F Tassielli, Ruifan Dai, Jason W Denbo, Pamela J Hodul, Mokenge P Malafa, Jason B Fleming","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28556","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28556","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"15 ","pages":"441"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11218789/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141492897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-20DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28596
Laurène Fenwarth, Nicolas Duployez
{"title":"Genomics has more to reveal.","authors":"Laurène Fenwarth, Nicolas Duployez","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28596","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28596","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"15 ","pages":"400-401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11197967/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-20DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28581
Josette Northcott, Gabor Bartha, Jason Harris, Conan Li, Fabio C P Navarro, Rachel Marty Pyke, Manqing Hong, Qi Zhang, Shuyuan Ma, Tina X Chen, Janet Lai, Nitin Udar, Juan-Sebastian Saldivar, Erin Ayash, Joshua Anderson, Jiang Li, Tiange Cui, Tu Le, Ruthie Chow, Randy Jerel Velasco, Chris Mallo, Rose Santiago, Robert C Bruce, Laurie J Goodman, Yi Chen, Dan Norton, Richard O Chen, John M Lyle
{"title":"Correction: Analytical validation of NeXT Personal®, an ultra-sensitive personalized circulating tumor DNA assay.","authors":"Josette Northcott, Gabor Bartha, Jason Harris, Conan Li, Fabio C P Navarro, Rachel Marty Pyke, Manqing Hong, Qi Zhang, Shuyuan Ma, Tina X Chen, Janet Lai, Nitin Udar, Juan-Sebastian Saldivar, Erin Ayash, Joshua Anderson, Jiang Li, Tiange Cui, Tu Le, Ruthie Chow, Randy Jerel Velasco, Chris Mallo, Rose Santiago, Robert C Bruce, Laurie J Goodman, Yi Chen, Dan Norton, Richard O Chen, John M Lyle","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28581","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28581","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"15 ","pages":"407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11197971/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-20DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28598
Marcus Schmidt, Hans-Anton Lehr, Katrin Almstedt
{"title":"HER2-low and HER2-zero in breast cancer between prognosis, prediction and entity.","authors":"Marcus Schmidt, Hans-Anton Lehr, Katrin Almstedt","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28598","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28598","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"15 ","pages":"418-420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11197969/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Objectives: Results for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) patients following first-line treatment with nivolumab plus ipilimumab obtained with immunotherapy-modified PERCIST (imPERCIST), shown by [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT), and modified RECIST (mRECIST), shown by CT, were compared for response evaluation and prognosis prediction.
Results: imPERCIST indicated nine progressive metabolic disease (PMD), eight stable metabolic disease (SMD), four partial metabolic response (PMR), and five complete metabolic response (CMR) cases. mRECIST showed nine with progressive disease (PD), nine stable disease (SD), seven partial response (PR), and one complete response (CR). Although high concordance was noted (κ = 0.827), imPERCIST correctly judged a greater percentage with CMR (15.4%). Following a median 10.0 months, 15 patients showed progression and eight died from MPM. With both, progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were significantly longer in patients without progression (CMR/PMR/SMD, CR/PR/SD, respectively) as compared to PMD/PD patients (imPERCIST p < 0.0001 and p = 0.015, respectively; mRECIST p < 0.0001 and p = 0.015, respectively).
Methods: Twenty-six patients (23 males, 3 females; median 73.5 years) with histologically proven MPM and no curative surgery received nivolumab plus ipilimumab combination therapy. FDG-PET/CT and diagnostic CT scanning at the baseline, and after 2-4 cycles (2 in three, 3 in 17, 4 in six patients) were performed. Therapeutic response findings evaluated using imPERCIST and mRECIST were compared. PFS and OS analyses were done using log-rank and Cox methods.
Conclusion: For unresectable MPM patient examinations, FDG-PET and CT provide accurate findings for evaluating tumor response and also prognosis prediction following first-line nivolumab plus ipilimumab immunotherapy (approximately three cycles).
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Pub Date : 2024-06-20DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28595
Aashirwad Shahi, Dawit Kidane
Prostate cancer (PCa) poses significant challenges in treatment, particularly when it progresses to a metastatic, castrate-resistant state. Conventional therapies, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and hormonal treatments, often fail due to toxicities, off-target effects, and acquired resistance. This research perspective defines an alternative therapeutic strategy focusing on the metabolic vulnerabilities of PCa cells, specifically their reliance on non-essential amino acids such as cysteine. Using an engineered enzyme cyst(e)inase to deplete the cysteine/cystine can induce oxidative stress and DNA damage in cancer cells. This depletion elevates reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, disrupts glutathione synthesis, and enhances DNA damage, leading to cancer cell death. The combinatorial use of cyst(e)inase with agents targeting antioxidant defenses, such as thioredoxins, further amplifies ROS accumulation and cytotoxicity in PCa cells. Overall, in this perspective provides a compressive overview of the previous work on manipulating amino acid metabolism and redox balance modulate the efficacy of DNA repair-targeted and immune checkpoint blockade therapies in prostate cancer.
前列腺癌(PCa)给治疗带来了巨大挑战,尤其是当它发展到转移性、阉割耐药状态时。传统疗法,包括化疗、放疗和激素治疗,往往因毒性、脱靶效应和获得性耐药性而失败。这一研究视角定义了一种替代治疗策略,重点关注 PCa 细胞的代谢弱点,特别是它们对半胱氨酸等非必需氨基酸的依赖。使用一种工程酶类胱氨酸酶来消耗半胱氨酸/胱氨酸,可以诱发癌细胞的氧化应激和DNA损伤。这种消耗会提高活性氧(ROS)水平,破坏谷胱甘肽的合成,加剧 DNA 损伤,从而导致癌细胞死亡。将胱氨酸酶与硫氧还蛋白等针对抗氧化防御的药物联合使用,可进一步扩大 PCa 细胞中 ROS 的积累和细胞毒性。总之,本研究综述了以往关于操纵氨基酸代谢和氧化还原平衡调节 DNA 修复靶向疗法和免疫检查点阻断疗法对前列腺癌疗效的研究。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-20DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28597
Cecilia Bergonzini, Elisa Giovannetti, Erik H J Danen
{"title":"Targeting ABC transporters in PDAC - past, present, or future?","authors":"Cecilia Bergonzini, Elisa Giovannetti, Erik H J Danen","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28597","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"15 ","pages":"403-406"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11197972/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}