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Marine anticancer agents : an overview with a particular focus on their chemical classes

Barreca, Marilia ; Spanò, Virginia ; Montalbano, Alessandra ; Cueto, Mercedes ; Díaz Marrero, Ana R. ; Deniz, Irem ; Erdoğan, Ayşegül ; Lukić Bilela, Lada ; Moulin, Corentin ; Taffin-de-Givenchy, Elisabeth ; Spriano, Filippo ; Perale, Giuseppe ; Mehiri, Mohamed ; Rotter, Ana ; Thomas, Olivier P. ; Barraja, Paola ; Gaudêncio, Susana P. ; Bertoni, Francesco

In: Marine drugs, 2020, vol. 18, no. 12, p. 28

The marine environment is a rich source of biologically active molecules for the treatment of human diseases, especially cancer. The adaptation to unique environmental conditions led marine organisms to evolve different pathways than their terrestrial counterparts, thus producing unique chemicals with a broad diversity and complexity. So far, more than 36,000 compounds have been isolated from...

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Higher-order connections between stereotyped subsets : implications for improved patient classification in CLL

Agathangelidis, Andreas ; Chatzidimitriou, Anastasia ; Gemenetzi, Katerina ; Giudicelli, Veronique ; Karypidou, Maria ; Plevova, Karla ; Davis, Zadie ; Yan, Xiao-Jie ; Jeromin, Sabine ; Schneider, Christof ; Bredo-Pedersen, Lone ; Tschumper, Renee C. ; Sutton, Lesley-Ann ; Baliakas, Panagiotis ; Scarfò, Lydia ; van Gastel, Ellen J. ; Armand, Marine ; Tausch, Eugen ; Biderman, Bella ; Baer, Constance ; Bagnara, Davide ; Navarro, Alba ; Langlois de Septenville, Anne ; Guido, Valentina ; Mitterbauer-Hohendanner, Gerlinde ; Dimovski, Aleksandar ; Brieghel, Christian ; Lawless, Sarah ; Meggendorfer, Manja ; Braazdilova, Kamila ; Ritgen, Matthias ; Facco, Monica ; Tresoldi, Cristina ; Visentin, Andrea ; Patriarca, Andrea ; Catherwood, Mark ; Bonello, Lisa ; Sudarikov, Andrey ; Vanura, Katrina ; Roumelioti, Maria ; Skuhrova-Francova, Hana ; Moysiadis, Theodoros ; Veronese, Silvio ; Giannopoulos, Krzysztof ; Mansouri, Larry ; Karan-Djurasevic, Teodora ; Sandaltzopoulos, Raphael ; Bödör, Csaba ; Fais, Franco ; Kater, Arnon ; Panovska, Irina ; Rossi, Davide ; Alshemmari, Salem ; Panagiotidis, Panagiotis ; Costeas, Paul ; Espinet Solà, Blanca ; Antic, Darko ; Foroni, Letizia ; Montillo, Marco ; Trentin, Livio ; Stavroyianni, Niki ; Gaidano, Gianluca ; Francia di Celle, Paola ; Niemann, Carsten ; Campo, Elias ; Anagnostopoulos, Achilles ; Pott, Christiane ; Fischer, Kirsten ; Hallek, Michael ; Oscier, David ; Stilgenbauer, Stephan ; Haferlach, Claudia ; Jelinek, Diane ; Chiorazzi, Nicholas ; Pospisilova, Sarka ; Lefranc, Marie-Paule ; Kossida, Sofia ; Langerak, Anton W. ; Belessi, Chrysoula ; Davi, Frederic ; Rosenquist, Richard ; Ghia, Paolo ; Stamatopoulos, Kostas

In: Blood, 2020, vol. 137, no. 10, p. 1365–1376

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is characterized by the existence of subsets of patients with (quasi)identical, stereotyped B cell receptor immunoglobulins (BcR IG). Patients in certain major stereotyped subsets often display remarkably consistent clinicobiological profiles, suggesting that the study of BcR IG stereotypy in CLL has important implications for understanding disease...

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TGFBI modulates tumour hypoxia and promotes breast cancer metastasis

Fico, Flavia ; Santamaria‐Martínez, Albert

In: Molecular Oncology, 2020, vol. 14, no. 12, p. 3198–3210

Breast cancer metastasis is a complex process that depends not only on intrinsic characteristics of metastatic stem cells, but also on the particular microenvironment that supports their growth and modulates the plasticity of the system. In search for microenvironmental factors supporting cancer stem cell (CSC) growth and tumour progression to metastasis, we here investigated the role of the...

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Innate immune cells and their contribution to T-cell-based immunotherapy

Ginefra, Pierpaolo ; Lorusso, Girieca ; Vannini, Nicola

In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020, vol. 21, no. 12, p. 4441

In recent years, immunotherapy has become the most promising therapy for a variety of cancer types. The development of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies, the adoptive transfer of tumor-specific T cells (adoptive cell therapy (ACT)) or the generation of T cells engineered with chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) have been successfully applied to elicit durable immunological responses in...

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Systematics of Vriesea (Bromeliaceae): phylogenetic relationships based on nuclear gene and partial plastome sequences

Machado, Talita Mota ; Loiseau, Oriane ; Paris, Margot ; Weigand, Anna ; Versieux, Leonardo M ; Stehmann, João Renato ; Lexer, Christian ; Salamin, Nicolas

In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2020, vol. 192, no. 4, p. 656–674

Vriesea is the second largest genus in Tillandsioideae, the most diverse subfamily of Bromeliaceae. Although recent studies focusing on Tillandsioideae have improved the systematics of Vriesea, no consensus has been reached regarding the circumscription of the genus. Here, we present a phylogenetic analysis of core Tillandsioideae using the nuclear gene phyC and plastid data obtained from...

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Effects of anti-PD-1 immunotherapy on tumor regression: insights from a patient-derived xenograft model

Martín-Ruiz, Asunción ; Fiuza-Luces, Carmen ; Martínez-Martínez, Esther ; Arias, Clemente F. ; Gutiérrez, Lourdes ; Ramírez, Manuel ; Martín-Acosta, Paloma ; Coronado, Maria José ; Lucia, Alejandro ; Provencio, Mariano

In: Scientific Reports, 2020, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 7078

Immunotherapies, such as checkpoint blockade of programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1), have resulted in unprecedented improvements in survival for patients with lung cancer. Nonetheless, not all patients benefit equally and many issues remain unresolved, including the mechanisms of action and the possible effector function of immune cells from non-lymphoid lineages. The purpose of this...